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		<title>Strip Generator</title>
		<link>http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/2010/02/strip-generator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hardluck Hotel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strip Generator - Comic Strips in Minutes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whilst preparing ideas for my web comic I was introduced to a fantastic web site called <a href="http://stripgenerator.com/" target="_blank">Strip Generator</a>.</p>
<p>Strip Generator allows you to create short comic strips online using it&#8217;s libraries of objects, people, shapes and beings. The fairly easy to us tools allow you to create really nice looking strips, by dragging and dropping items, in just a few minutes.</p>
<p>There is also thriving community of users who comment on your strips and generally help out  with the more advanced aspects of the site.</p>
<p>These are the remixed versions of my original Strip Generator strips, I&#8217;ve just enhanced the overall design and added speech balloons via Comic Life.</p>
<p><strong>Click on the strips to see an enlarged version.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/3-15-Strip-One.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-363" title="3:15 Strip One" src="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/3-15-Strip-One-300x155.jpg" alt="3:15 Strip One" width="300" height="155" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/3-15-Strip-Two.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-366" title="3:15 Strip Two" src="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/3-15-Strip-Two-300x155.jpg" alt="3:15 Strip Two" width="300" height="155" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/3-15-Strip-Three.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-365" title="3:15 Strip Three" src="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/3-15-Strip-Three-300x155.jpg" alt="3:15 Strip Three" width="300" height="155" /></a></p>
<p>You can see my original strips on my <a href="http://hardluckhotel.stripgenerator.com/" target="_blank">Hardluck Hotel Strip Generator</a> page.</p>
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		<title>Six Word Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hardluck Hotel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway once bet that he could write a novel in six words. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ernest Hemingway once bet that he could write a novel in six words.<br />
&#8220;For sale: baby shoes, never worn.&#8221; &#8211; he won the bet.</p>
<p>Stardust was created to accompany a six word story I wrote for the ‘Six Word Stories from Local People’ project run by Multistory, in collaboration with SMITH magazine and The Public. The project invited residents of the six towns in Sandwell to tell their own story in six words.</p>
<p>The illustration started as a hand drawn image with all the colour and star effects added in Photoshop.</p>
<div id="attachment_69" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/stardust_web.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-69" title="stardust_web" src="http://hardluckhotel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/stardust_web-300x300.jpg" alt="Click to Enlarge" width="300" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Click to Enlarge</p></div>
<p>The final illustration appeared in a publication to celebrate the year of communities which contained over 100 stories and illustrations, and was featured in an exhibition at the Public Building, West Bromwich.</p>
<p>&#8216;Six&#8217; was inspired by the six word memoirs project run by SMITH Magazine in America. SMITH Magazine have also produced a hardback book of six word stories titled &#8220;One Life, Six Words, What&#8217;s Yours? &#8220;. The book is available online from Amazon.</p>
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