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Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:48:54 -0400

The "Red Roses" Video

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:47:34 -0400

About Red Roses…

This video is made for sending to someone you love. It is very sentimental. Because of how YouTube allocates cover images for videos, I could not place a red rose on the cover.

Copyright information and materials source information about the wj4u.com video entitled, ”Red Roses”

Thank you for your interest in this video. “Red Roses” is copyrighted to the artist, Bernie Lee. See the creative commons license at the bottom of this page.

Images used in this video are in the public domain or have been granted special permission for use. Please note that while an image may be in the public domain, it does not mean this video is in the public domain. Materials were used to construct a new work of art. Original prose is also part of this video, making it a new work of art. The music portion of this video is owned by the guest musician, Patrick Schouten.

Music License Information:

The music in this video is copyrighted and licensed by it’s creator, musician Patrick Schouten. Please visit Patrick’s website at http://www.siflaar.nl/patrick-schouten_en.html. The title of this beautiful work is “A Little Fairy Tale”.

Our terms of use:

This video is fully copyrighted and licensed to Bernie Lee, who is the originating artist and owner of wj4u.com. This video is posted on YouTube.

Share-and-share alike: You may post this video to your blog or website without penalty.

You may also email or otherwise distribute this video in it’s unaltered state without penalty.

Derivative works: No derivative works are allowed for this video. Please refer to the creative commons license at the bottom of this post for more information.

The following is a materials source list:

To the best of my knowledge, all images and the music in this video are legally permitted to be used under their respective licenses or because they are in the public domain, or because permissions are given publicly or have been given privately.

“Red Roses” music attribution:

Music - “A Little Fairy Tale” is by Patrick Schouten.
My deepest gratitude for the use of this beautiful music.

“Red Roses” images attribution in order of appearance. Unless otherwise noted these images are in the public domain:

Wikimedia Commons

Title image of roses and tulips:
”Still Life of Flowers” by Ambrosius Bosschaert

The red rose used for a background image:
”A Yellow Rose” by Wikimedia Commons user Kuunaal Nawaab

”Bela Ruza” by Wikimedia Commons user Tsnena.

”Miniature Rose” by Gnangarra. Please visit this user’s Wikimedia Commons image gallery here. Note: This image has two conflicting licenses. I took it to mean the second license allows use without granting permission for derivative works, and that is the license I am adhering to.

”Rosa Heidetraum” by Florian Moeckel. Please visit Florian’s Wikimedia Commons image gallery.

”Pot Pourrie” by Herbert James Draper.
Loc.gov - The Library of Congress Online
”Zan Zig Performing Hat Trick…” From the Magic Poster Collection
”A Perfect Storm of Turbulent Gasses in the Omega/Swan Nebula” NASA - From hubblesite.org.
Wikimedia Commons
”Roses” by Stefan Luchian.

”Gravitational Lens” Created under contract by ESA, the European Space Agency for NASA.

Image of an angel with a violin. Painted by Mathis Gotheart Grunewald.

Quote Attribution:

The quote by JM Barrie, the author of Peter Pan is well known. I am not attributing this quote because I have known it since childhood.

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Copyright Information for the Video “Red Roses” by Bernie Lee

“Red Roses” by Bernie Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at Patrick Schouten’s website at http://www.siflaar.nl/patrick-schouten_en.html.

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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:21:09 -0400

The "Kissing" Video

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:29:13 -0400

About the “Kissing” video. This video showcases works of art that depict kissing between people in various situations. Quotes relevant to kissing are included as well as beautiful musical accompaniment.

Copyright information and materials source information about the wj4u.com video entitled, ”Kissing”

Thank you for your interest in this video. “Kissing” is copyrighted to the artist, Bernie Lee. See the creative commons license at the bottom of this page.

Images used in this video are in the public domain. Please note that while an image may be in the public domain, it does not mean this video is in the public domain. Many hours of digital alteration by hand went into the preparation of these images. At that point it became a new work of art. In all this video took around 100 hours to complete from start to finish. The music portion of this video is owned by the guest musician, Manolo Camp.

Music License Information:

The music in this video is copyrighted and licensed by it’s creator, electric artist Manolo Camp. Please go to opsound.org for licensing information as shown by clicking on the ”license” link in the left column.

Our terms of use:

This video is fully copyrighted and licensed to Bernie Lee, who is the originating artist and owner of wj4u.com. This video is posted on YouTube.

Share-and-share alike: You may post this video to your blog or website without penalty.

You may also email or otherwise distribute this video in it’s unaltered state without penalty.

Derivative works: No derivative works are allowed for this video. Please refer to the creative commons license at the bottom of this post for more information.

The following is a materials source list:

“Kissing” music attribution:

Music - “Yes, she loved me” by Manolo Camp at opsound.org.
My deepest gratitude for the use of this beautiful music.

“Kissing” images attribution:

Quotegarden.com
Quotes on Kissing

The final quote: “Every true kiss begins with an overture” is my own. I created it for this video, but attributed it as an anonymous quote because nobody really knows who I am. :-)

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Copyright Information for the Video “Kissing” by Bernie Lee

“About Kissing” by Bernie Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at Music: Manolo Camp at http://www.manolocamp.net/.

Tips On Creating Your Own Video

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:27:48 -0400

If you have never created a video before, please allow me to reassure you that it isn’t magic.

Yes, there are specific steps to follow, specific software to use. But that is the mechanical part of creating a video.

Your video, your special presentation to the world of what moves you, is something that only you can create.

What gives a video life is the inspiration a person brings to it.

First, start out with a great idea. Where do great ideas come from? The answer to that is easy. They come from inside you. They are usually borne out over time. The seed begins it’s life from whatever you find personally appealing. Coupled with that is whatever knowledge and skills you bring with you. Here is what worked for me…

I found the “500 years of Women in Art” video on YouTube to be very inspiring. Why did it inspire me to create my own video? I allowed myself to think I could do it. I tried and failed several times. But eventually, I did it because I knew it was possible.

The “Women in Art” video really touched me. In the very beginning when his video was just starting out I wrote to the producer and exchanged a few notes. This surprised me because I am certain he is very busy and must be even more now that his video is so popular. But seeing he was a human just like me made it all seem within reach. If he could do it, then so could I. That is what I want to impart to you as well.

When I made contact with another person who had done great things with their talents, the notion I could make a video of my own just made sense to me. The confidence came to me because of who I am, what I know and where I have been in life. I had a prior interest in antique art, post cards and old movie posters. I also knew where to find copyright free images on the Internet. I also have extensive experience as an artist, both digitally and as a painterly artist. I also worked for a large manufacturing company in their Information Technology division for many years and knew my way around computers enough to get by. The upshot of all that is I am interested in digital restoration of images, love antique artwork and am able to create my own web page or blog. Tumblr.com made creating the website extra easy. And somehow that all translated into my projects of slide show style videos.

I have never taken a movie in my life. I have never used a camcorder, and not even taken a picture by cell phone. The only camera I own is an old digital Kodak. Yet I am posting videos on YouTube. If I can do it, so can you.

Maybe you do have a camcorder and like to take movies of your children. Build on that. You already have the equipment and skills. You have the interest. Think about what other people want to see. There are many people just like you who go to YouTube or other video services every day. Make a video about motherhood. Make one about crafts for children. Make a spoof on marriage. Anything.

One of the most important things you can do to inspire yourself is to kick around places like YouTube to find out what other people are doing.

They say an artist cannot be creative in a vacuum. After decades as an artist, I can tell you this is absolutely true. You need to witness the artistic expression of others for your own artistic soul to emerge.

Once you decide what to do, figure out how to do it. I use Photoshop 7.0, PhotoImpact and Paint Shop Pro for my graphics needs. I use Windows Movie Maker to create movies. I find open source sites and utilize music of artists who are happy to lend their work to quality videos.

If you really want to create something worthwhile, it will come from within. And you must follow this. It is one of the golden rules. You should always attribute your sources and you should never plagarize or steal another person’s work. Do not violate copyright. You are damaging your own artistic voice when you do, and you are robbing another person of their artistic rewards.

Challenge yourself. Make it happen. The only magic in making videos is the magic of believing in yourself.

Bernie Lee

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Copyright Information

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:45:06 -0400

All works of art on this website are copyrighted and owned by Bernie Lee. This applies despite the fact that many works are based upon public domain images. Those images are altered considerably from their original condition and become new works of art.

Please read the terms of use for each individual work. For most works a creative commons share-and-share alike license will apply. However, there will be occasional exceptions. Please refer to the list below to see the particular information for a given work.

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1. Copyright and Materials Attributions Information for the Video “Kissing” by Bernie Lee

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Contact Information for wj4u.com

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:44:48 -0400

Due to problems with email spam I have opted to accept any questions about my videos through my youtube message account.

This means you will need a YouTube account or know someone who has one to contact me.

My user name on YouTube is “webjewels”.

Thank you.

About "Kissing" and My Future Projects

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:44:26 -0400

“Kissing” is my first video. I created it entirely on my own with no help or advice and no video creation experience. I actually loaded and unloaded this to YouTube five times before I got it right. That is what happens when you are learning!

The first time I found out my home made quote pages looked terrible, so I deleted the video and tried a black background on the quotes pages. That didn’t help much. So I deleted it and created captions with movie maker. I also changed most of the photo borders because I noticed they too looked strange after uploading to YouTube. So I deleted it again and simplified borders. This was the fourth time and it finally looked great. Except that the sound byte at the end was 25 seconds long with nothing on the screen. That had to be shortened. So I deleted it and uploaded it again. Now everything was perfect.

I plan to create other videos in the near future. I hope I only have to upload them one time. It won’t be such a new process now.

As for my decision to branch out into video, after seeing “Women In Art” by Eggman913 it was an easy decision.

I have been an artist for 25 years. I do have a background in Photoshop and a basic knowledge on where to obtain public domain images. That was a great advantage. It took hours of rework and digital enhancement in Photoshop to prepare the images for my “Kissing” video. All together I imagine there to be about 100 hours of work into the project.

I used Windows Movie Maker to finalise my work and pull it all together into the video format. I am amazed at what a beautiful piece of software it is, at least for me.

All images used are in the public domain and the sources are cited to assist others in finding good public domain images for their own artistic endeavors.

“About Kissing” was submitted to YouTube on July 25, 2007. Please check back again for more videos at a later date.

My YouTube name is “WebJewels”.

Thank you,

Bernie Lee

About wj4u.com

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:34:33 -0400

My name is Bernie Lee. I am an artist. I paint in oils and acrylics and I use Photoshop on a daily basis for many digital art projects.

Several years ago there was a website called “Moyra’s Web Jewels”. It was one of the first and all time best free graphics websites on the Internet. Moyra.com has been in mothballs for many years, but I am certain it’s influence is still felt by many early Internet artists like myself.

I feel I owe Moyra a great debt of thanks for inspiring me to try my hand at digital art. She showed me I could use Photoshop in a whole new way.

Moyra was also an early advocate of boycotting people who stole digital art for commercial purposes. The creative commons licensing agreements go far to remedy the ills Moyra was so concerned about.

I decided to create my own web jewels site in honor of Moyra. A few months ago I purchased wj4u.com - “Web Jewels For You”. I thought it would be a place to offer my digital web art. Little did I know it would become a vault for my own video productions.

After seeing the video “500 Years of Women In Art” I was inspired to try my hand at creating a video of my own.

With my knowledge of Photoshop and knowing where to find copyright friendly or public domain images on the net, I decided I could produce a video that is imaginative and worthwhile.

“Kissing” is my first venture. I hope you like it

The gratification I feel for having made this video is quite inspiring. I will continue to produce more videos as time goes by.

Please look for my videos under “Web Jewels” on YouTube.

Thank you.

Bernie Lee