Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Guau Award - the two entries.

This one is from Viv. Thanks Viv!

Que te Perdone Dios...

... in which Fausto, with the aid of his minion Lucio, teaches us how to get away with murder, all without displacing a single moustache hair or getting a single smudge on his fancy cowboy hat. If you work for Fausto, you’ll get the lash in the fields by day, but a shot of free tequila in the cantina by night. Old women, young women, they all love him! And if you don’t, he’ll rape ya! His blind wife (Renata), his on/off lover (Macaria), his ex-lover/mother of his child (Helena), his lover/niece/daughter-in-law (Diana), and his obsession/step-daughter (Abigail our heroine), all know this is Fausto’s world, and the rest of us are just hostages in it. Mateo (our galan) naively thinks his uncle (really, father) Fausto plays by the rules, but he’ll learn soon that Fausto plays by his own rules.

From Anita. Thanks!

QUIERO AMARTE

Couplings, uncouplings, recouplings are the mode
In the beginning, in the middle, in the end
So far, no end in sight

Gorgeous Max-Clingy Constanza (engaged, disengaged)
Bewitching Amaya-Max (obstacles overcome, new barriers raised)
Back to Max-Constanza (having a baby)

Constanza-Yummy Sal (non-starter)
Snobby Flavia-Mean Ulises (left him)
Former Snob Flavia - Sal (he’s rushing it)
Flavia-Ranch Hand Heriberto (might work)

Amaya-Whorable Horacio (caught cheating)
Horacio-Useful Emma (too old, then too dead)
Horacio-Statuesque Juliana (got rejected)
Juliana-Franco (died early)
Juliana-Rugged Jorge (might last)

Beautiful Mariana-Adorable Ivan (ideal love)
Despicable Ulises-Mariana (obsessed, sequesters her, no love)
Ivan-Crazy Cecy (lost his memory)

Teddy Bear Mauro-Elena (long dead)
Mauro-Florencia (killed early)
Mauro-Killer Lucrecia (toxic marriage)
Mauro-Eloisa (might happen)

Pond Scum Cesar (does prostitutes)
Cesar-Amaya (“arranged” marriage, he’s BSC)
Amaya-Max (might happen in episode 161)

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Guau award! update

Hello friends,

Turned out only TWO of you were willing to submit entries to my challenge. Both will get the free cd downloads.

I guess I didn't make clear what I really wanted, and anyway you were right, 150 words was too short. Here is an example I wrote of an old novela, it's 499 words. This is sort of what I was looking for. I will post the two entries shortly. Thanks.

Entre el Amor y el Odio

A recently deceased rich shoe-factory owner leaves his fortune to his nephew, the hero, and his ward, the heroine, with the stipulation that they, not previously acquainted, marry. 

The villain, Marcial, tells the hero this ward (our heroine) had been shagging the decrepit old shoe magnate so after our hero and heroine marry, glumly, in order to secure the loot, the hero invites his evil girlfriend (who's also the villain's girlfriend, her name is Frida) to move into the mansion with him and the new wife. 

The wife and the girlfriend both get pregnant. Our hero thinks he's the father of both, but actually his girlfriend's baby is the villains. The babies are born the same night. The baby born to the villains is feeble because his mother smoke and drank while she was pregnant!. The villains switch the babies in the nursery. 

The hero thinks he owes it to the evil Frida to marry her, so he divorces his wife. The villains try to kill the feeble baby several times. Then they try to run the hero over, but the heroine nobly gets hit instead and almost dies. 

Frida goes to the loony bin. When, later, she gets sprung, she tries to drown both boys in a swimming pool. The feeble one dies. Our devastated heroine tries to drown herself in a river but is rescued by a handsome feral Indian who takes her to a MONASTERY where she glides sadly around in a hempen robe. Then the hero is almost killed by a poisonous snake but the feral Indian saves him too.

Eventually the tide turns. Evil Frida’s skin begins to fall off; she has LEPROSY. Wrapping herself head to toe in orange scarves she sneaks into the hospital, covers her orange scarves with scrubs; poses as a nurse and kills a doctor in order to get morphine.

Meanwhile in the jungle the heroine is almost killed by an escaped-from-the-zoo lion but the feral Indian saves her, dying in the process.

The villain Marcial is almost burned alive in a motel jacuzzi, he survives but looks very gross so skulks around in a black cape and mask. Out for vengeance, he crashes an awards ceremony at the shoe factory. Swinging out of a tree, he sweeps up the remaining kid and takes him to the top of a huge statue. Frida (in her scarves) follows him up there cause she wants to stab him. The whole cast rushes up to the top of the statue in their formalware. The burned guy dangles the kid over the edge but Frida stabs him and our hero snatches the baby and Marcial pitches over the edge, and then Frida pitches over too.

Everybody rushes down to the broken villains on the stones below. A priest comes to give last rites but our villains reject him and each gives a long defiant speech before dying. Then there’s a big party.

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Monday, March 09, 2015

Blog mom's "Guau! Award" contest open to all! Glory and prizes!

Hi friends,

I have been too busy/sick to follow ANY telenovelas for quite a while. I am offering an award for the best telenovela summary mailed to me to help get me back in the groove. Here are the rules:
  1. 150 words or less;
  2. Must be a telenovela which is currently running on Univision or Telemundo;
  3. As many lurid, ridiculous, amusing details as possible;
  4. Excellent cliffhanger ending (you don't have to end where the novela currently is at - anywhere up to the current point will do).
  5. Submit your entry before March 20.
Mail your entry to caray@mappamundi.com I will announce the winner on March 22. Winner gets:
  1. Free downloads of any two of my cds, anything available on my Skylark Productions record label site;
  2. A link to your synopsis from the sidebar;
  3. The accolades of your fellow travelers.

I will post the winning entry on the blog, and also the two best runners-up.

Any questions? Really hoping a lot of you will take up the challenge!!

Love, Jane

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

12/9/14: Thank You Note from the Family of Blogger Madelaine

All- I got this note from Madelaine's brother.

-Vivi
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Hello,

I am one of Madelaine's  younger brothers.  I wish that you would pass on to all how deeply we were touched at the outpouring of all of the members of your group.  She is deeply missed by us already and time has not yet begun to heal our pain.  But I will say this to all, she will not be forgotten. While at her house after she had passed I noticed a saying she had hanging on her wall:

Some people
come into our lives
and quickly go......
Some stay for awhile
and leave footprints
on our hearts,
And we are never,
ever the same.

I would say that we will all never be the same. May we all be thankful that our lives touched one another's.  May we all share what she has so generously shared with us.  Again, I thank you all most graciously and may God bless you all.

Karl  Leber

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Friday, December 05, 2014

Blogger Health Update: Sad News About Madelaine

Caray Caray Family,

It is with a very heavy heart that I share this news. Yesterday morning, Madelaine passed away in the hospital. The cancer had spread to her brain and there was nothing more that the doctors could do. I know you join me in sending heartfelt condolences to her beloved husband Jim and daughter Marie (Mia).

If you have not already reached out to me for her address, and would like to send something to her family, please do not hesitate to contact me.

-Vivi
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Here is Madelaine's obituary with information on funeral services:
Madelaine Marguerite Fails, 57, passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2014. Born in Hielbronn, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Neal and Maria Houston. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Marcel Houston.

She taught herself Spanish by watching Mexican Telenovelas and became one of their bloggers. She was strongly loved and will be sorely missed.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 24 years, Jim Fails; daughter, Marie Houston; brother, Karl Leber and wife Jennifer, and Paul Leber; sister, Patricia Morgan and husband John; nephews, Cody Houston, Draque Leber, Benny Galia and Tyler Vogel; nieces, Shannon Fails, Coleen Fails and Olivia Fails; and a great niece, MacKenzie Fails.

The family will received friends at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Indian River Chapel on Sunday, December 7, 2014, from 4 to 6 p.m. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, December 8, 2014, at Riverside Cemetery. Condolences may be offered to the family at www.hollomon-brown.com. - See more at: http://www.hollomon-brown.com/obituary?id=1458106#sthash.jyi57mt4.dpuf
Madelaine Marguerite Fails, 57, passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2014. Born in Hielbronn, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Neal and Maria Houston. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Marcel Houston.
Madelaine Marguerite Fails, 57, passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2014. Born in Hielbronn, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Neal and Maria Houston. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Marcel Houston.

She taught herself Spanish by watching Mexican Telenovelas and became one of their bloggers. She was strongly loved and will be sorely missed.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 24 years, Jim Fails; daughter, Marie Houston; brother, Karl Leber and wife Jennifer, and Paul Leber; sister, Patricia Morgan and husband John; nephews, Cody Houston, Draque Leber, Benny Galia and Tyler Vogel; nieces, Shannon Fails, Coleen Fails and Olivia Fails; and a great niece, MacKenzie Fails.

The family will received friends at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Indian River Chapel on Sunday, December 7, 2014, from 4 to 6 p.m. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, December 8, 2014, at Riverside Cemetery. Condolences may be offered to the family at www.hollomon-brown.com. - See more at: http://www.hollomon-brown.com/obituary?id=1458106#sthash.jyi57mt4.dpuf

Madelaine Marguerite Fails, 57, passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2014. Born in Hielbronn, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Neal and Maria Houston. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Marcel Houston.

She taught herself Spanish by watching Mexican Telenovelas and became one of their bloggers. She was strongly loved and will be sorely missed.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 24 years, Jim Fails; daughter, Marie Houston; brother, Karl Leber and wife Jennifer, and Paul Leber; sister, Patricia Morgan and husband John; nephews, Cody Houston, Draque Leber, Benny Galia and Tyler Vogel; nieces, Shannon Fails, Coleen Fails and Olivia Fails; and a great niece, MacKenzie Fails.

The family will received friends at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Indian River Chapel on Sunday, December 7, 2014, from 4 to 6 p.m. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, December 8, 2014, at Riverside Cemetery. Condolences may be offered to the family at www.hollomon-brown.com.

Madelaine Marguerite Fails, 57, passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2014. Born in Hielbronn, Germany, she was the daughter of the late Neal and Maria Houston. She was also preceded in death by her brother, Marcel Houston.

She taught herself Spanish by watching Mexican Telenovelas and became one of their bloggers. She was strongly loved and will be sorely missed.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 24 years, Jim Fails; daughter, Marie Houston; brother, Karl Leber and wife Jennifer, and Paul Leber; sister, Patricia Morgan and husband John; nephews, Cody Houston, Draque Leber, Benny Galia and Tyler Vogel; nieces, Shannon Fails, Coleen Fails and Olivia Fails; and a great niece, MacKenzie Fails.

The family will received friends at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Indian River Chapel on Sunday, December 7, 2014, from 4 to 6 p.m. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, December 8, 2014, at Riverside Cemetery. Condolences may be offered to the family at www.hollomon-brown.com. - See more at: http://www.hollomon-brown.com/obituary?id=1458106#sthash.jyi57mt4.dpuf

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Send get well greetings to our wonderful blogger and team captain Madelaine!

Madelaine has been quite ill, here is a post where you can comment and give her thanks for the amazing double- and triple-shifts she has pulled recapping for everybody!

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Blogger Update: New Update from Madelaine

Madelaine just sent a new update on her health today.... 

Hola Y'all,

I've had two little set backs. I went back in the hospital twice. The first was a complete heart check. Things were fine. The second was to drain that lung again. I am now done with the radiation treatment. I am continuing to recover. It's funny in a way, I have now been on all floors of the hospital, and they all know me. I even got two cards from them, one from oncology, and one from cardiac floor. They called me the crazy Texan, too funny. My name may be Madelaine Fails, but Mads never Fails, how about that.

I feel so blessed for having Mr. Mads as my hubby, my wonder daughter Mia, the home nurses that come check on me, the physical therapists that work with me, and Y'all for being family to me and sending me all those wonderful cards, earworms, gift cards and to the person, you know who you are, who sent me Alborada, I thank you so much. God Bless you, your prayers, and warm feelings. I think of you everyday. 

Cheers,
Mads

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Sunday, November 02, 2014

For el dia de los muertos, two songs I just LOVE!!! Mi funeral!!! No es serio este cementerio!!

These are the greatest. Hello everybody! Did you know we have almost 10,000 posts here at Caray Caray and 11,653,384 pageviews? From all over the world. You guys are the greatest too.

Mi funeral:



No es serio este cementerio:

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Blogger/Recapper Update: A Message from Madelaine!

All, Madelaine sent this lovely message today.

Hello, Y'aLL

Yes, it is I the returning reader of Caray. Remarkably they did have UNI in the hospital so I could keep up at least.

It's funny in a way. When I first got sick they thought I had pneumonia. Then they got an x-ray at my doctor's office and sent me to the ER. That's where they found the tumor. It has not spread except for my brain, go figure, but the very front. I am not getting chemo, it is Radio Therapy. It's radiation, but chemo is a last resort. In order for me to get lung function back, they inserted a chest pipe. I called it the crack pipe, cause I swear they cracked a rib going in. But this cancer has not spread anywhere else, not my other lung, and it is shrinking from the radio therapy. No nausea, I can eat. Little unsteady on my feet of course, I've been in the hospital for almost two weeks and got out last night.  I will now be treated as an outpatient. I am just very happy to be home. They are treating the brain and lung at the same time.

As I do to you, I drove those nurses crazy with earworms and Texisms. The therapy people especially and my nurses couldn't get over the 'tude, how funny I am when I'm sick. The hostpial has a Padre, not Spanish speaking, that would come see me. We prayed together every day and he couldn't believe my faith either. Laughter is the best medicine eva! But I want to say I am remarkably blessed by Mr. Mads and my daughter Mia. And doubly blessed by this wonderful Caray Family. Thanks so very much for all the cards that were sent and the wonderful emails. Please continue to pray, as I think this was part of me getting so well so quickly. I'll be commenting again, and recapping too, I have not given up. I want to be a little steadier first. I send you very, very many wonderful hugs and thanks for all you have done.

Cheers,

Mads 

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Monday, October 20, 2014

Blogger/Recapper Update: Madelaine's Health

Caraymates,

I have been in touch with many of you over the last week as I have gotten updates from Blogger Madelaine’s family about her health. Many of you have asked if we shouldn’t share the news more widely on the blog, and so I am using this space to do so now. Most of you know Madelaine as one of our most energetic bloggers, recapping multiple telenovelas at a time, multiple times a week. He recaps and comments are folksy and warm. Her ever-ready, perfectly matched song/music selections are infectious. Over the last few weeks she has been unusually absent from the blog, battling what she thought was a tough flu bug.

Mads and her family now know that her fight is much greater than that. Sadly, she is battling stage four lung cancer. I know most have you have already been sending her prayers and well-wishes. I ask that you redouble those, as Mads goes through radiation and chemo over the next few weeks. If you would like to send her a letter/card/note directly, please e-mail me by clicking on my avatar.

I hope you are all well out there.

Abrazos,

Vivi

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Monday, December 02, 2013

Note to my beloved bloggers: please read

Hey friends,
Sorry I've been absent. Actually the tv situation in my house is so bad I don't know how to watch tv any more (my son upgraded it beyond my technical understanding) so I haven't seen a novela in months. There are so many of you now! Here are my two requests:

1. Please put the actual name of the show you're recapping in the title. Many people do not know them by the initials and you will not be found in a search.

2. PLEASE input your posts using notepad or other plain text editor. Some of the posts have been so full of coding that it breaks the blog design for some people. If you must input in Word etc. here is a workaround: after you cut-and-paste the document into the compose window, then cut-and-paste it again and put it into the html window. That way all the coding will go away.

Thanks,
Jane (melinama, blog mom, chapel hill fiddler - google has taken away my pseudonyms!)

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Monday, October 21, 2013

Recapper stars in her own telenovela!

¿Qué es Common Core?

Carlos and Belinda are a young couple with children in the Mesa Public Schools.  As MPS implements the new Common Core standards, Miss Millie helps Carlos and Belinda understand the changes.  But a secret from Carlos' past threatens the safety of the entire family.



This was just too good not to share with the whole community!  I shot this video series back in May and the Spanish version is out now.  There was an English version shot at the same time, but it doesn't look like that's out yet.  The idea is to introduce parents to the Common Core Standards and get them interested in what's going on in MPS by using the familiar telenovela format, as well as poking fun at a lot of the telenovela tropes (all that stuff we check off on the imaginary BINGO cards).  I even got to say "No puede ser!"  It's not meant to be a stand-alone, but is/has been presented to parents during meetings where they have an opportunity to ask questions and get more detailed information.

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Bloggers please read!!

Dear bloggers, as I have mentioned before many times, I need you to compose your posts in plain text format. Notepad, or directly into the blogger text window. Do not format.

Do not compose in WORD or any other program which adds formatting codes. Cutting and pasting from Word ends up looking like the example below. When you format in blogger, or use any program - like Word - which inserts formatting automatically - it sometimes makes the sidebar disappear in some browsers.

So Just Use Text Files. Thank you! Blog Mom

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Thursday, March 07, 2013

Off-duty bloggers phone home! Porque el amor manda needs two (or more) of you

Hello friends,

I'm behind the beat here because I've been very busy with another project and then the flu. But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! As the anvils are whistling past our ears on Por ella we are assembling a new crew for the Colunga comedy "Porque el amor manda" - Ezra and I are stepping down and Wednesday and Thursday slots are available - unless somebody has already told me they're stepping up and I have spaced it out. Please EMAIL me at caray@mappamundi.com if you're interested in joining the team which will be head up by our redoubtable Cheryl!!

Thanks to all for keeping the ball rolling.

Melinama your blog mom

ps if you are interested in my other ridiculously arcane project, related to telenovelas only by the florid melodrama contained within - see Polish Jewish Cabaret, a blog where I am posting my own (vocal) recordings of Yiddish Theater songs from cabaret and kleynkunst between the world wars in Warsaw Poland. Here are a couple silly little samples - first, a song about poor girls ending up in brothels, set to a soppy old American tune "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"



and second, a free download (the rollicking more Jewish sounding 'Yosl Yosl') if you want to be on the mailing list for the project...

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Friday, January 11, 2013

TELEMUNDO Y MAS -- AN INDEX



Telemundo y más:  INDEX  

Here is my attempt at a sort of roadmap -- a list of the names and dates of the novelas we have talked about and recapped in brief during the two years our page has been up and running.  

Just to clarify:

The dates refer to the title of the posting, not to the specific date posted.

The list is organized from most recent to oldest posting. (Thank you, Jean, for that suggestion!)

Most, and sometimes all, of the recaps are in the comment section of each weekly posted page.
Read more »

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Blog mom recommends a video. Have a look, please!

Please watch: You Don't Own Me

The song is Leslie Gore's hit from the 1960s. It seems very pertinent in view of the many recent comments about the male-dominated world of telenovelas.

I have been asked to keep this blog non-political, and by and large I do, but I've thought this over carefully, and - it's my blog. Agree or disagree as you choose - but just take a look, it's a lovely video.

I love all our bloggers and commenters, big and small, male and female, red and blue. I am disallowing comments on this post but you may write to me directly at jane@mappamundi.com.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Attention all! About the recap feeds. Don't use chrome browser.

Hello friends, I suppose I should mention this periodically. When delicious.com went away (or threatened to), our sidebar recap collection was switched over to a system which is internal to blogger (our blog host) so we figured it would never go away...

It works fine if you use the Internet Explorer browser or Firefox, but unfortunately CHROME BROWSER IS TOO STUPID TO USE IT. If you examine this problem of rss feeds online you will find many people wailing about "Why can't Chrome negotiate rss feeds properly like all the other browsers?" and there is no answer. Yet.

In the mean time, if you want to read old recaps, switch to IE or Firefox and then click on the recap feed in the sidebar. Sorry about this. Feel free to comment. In particular: does the recap feed work for you?

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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Telenovelas and Hulu (in HD, with CCs!)

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this yet, I sure didn't know about it. I hope it's okay to post this here. This is an easy, accessible way to catch up on your telenovela viewing. Often the episodes have HD and CCs. (But not always CCs.)

I did some screenshots from two telenovelas that we've covered here. Notice the HD (click on image to see full size) and the closed captions!

Click on image to see the FULL SIZE HD version. This is from Hulu.com's "most popular episode ever" of La que no podía amar. Cap. 35, as it happens. (I guess Hulu users are Rogelianas!)

A random episode (one of the more popular ones for Hulu) of Soy tú Dueña. Fernando Colunga in HD! (Again, click on image to see full HD image.)

I signed up for Hulu Plus (because I'm a fool) and that's when you get the HD. I don't know if the CCs are dependent on having a Hulu Plus account or not. I do know that before I signed up, it looked like they only had the last week or so of episodes (I only checked LQNPA at that point). When I signed up for Hulu Plus, all of a sudden all 90 episodes (that's what they said) of LQNPA were available, all in HD, most (but not all) with CCs. I also quickly checked and all of Teresa is on Hulu, as is La Fuerza del destino, Eva Luna, Una Familia Con Suerte, Abismo de Pasion, and I forget what else. If a show is currently airing (like LQNPA) they only have the episodes that have currently aired on Univision. So you can't watch ahead. However, they did have yesterday's (Friday's) episode of LQNPA.

This is great for if you miss an episode, or if you want to check out an old series (like Soy tú dueña or whatever) and follow our recaps here. No worrying about the episodes being taken down, as I think all of these episodes are ad-supported.

I watched these on my computer, but apparently you can get them on your iPod and other devices. I think the episodes are heavily copy-protected, so you'll have a hard time getting a copy for an unsupported device.

Here is the Latino section of Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/latino?src=topnav

Will update when I find out more, and if anyone else finds out something interesting, please let us know! :D

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Thought you'd enjoy seeing how many people have visited Caray, Caray!

site statistics for telenovela blog caray carayFrom our sitemeter. Interesting, yes? Right now, as I type, there are visitors from the United States (claro) and also from:
Kuwait
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Moscow, Moscow City
Nairobi
Paris
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Warsaw, Warszawa

Welcome, all!

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Screencapping tutorial for fellow Caray-Carayers

I hope it's okay to pimp this here!

I know I'm not the only one to make screencaps on Caray Caray, but just in case some of you fellow recappers are looking for a tutorial, I decided to while away some time and wrote a tutorial for us on my own blog, which you can read here. It's for both Mac and PC and I try to recommend free software when possible. I don't think this is the definitive tutorial, and I'm sure there are better ways for some of the things I show, but this is at least one way to do it.

A few screenshots from the tutorial, because you know how I love my screenshots:

Using the free video software VLC Player (for Mac and PC) to make "snapshots" from any video.

Cropping a picture in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

Lightening a picture in the free software that comes with your Mac.

Hope this is helpful to someone! Again, the tutorial is on my own blog (it's the only post I have there at the moment!) and it's for both Mac and PC.

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