Vignette #1
This is an image made by my 6 year old niece, Vani. It was made on the Paint application on my Dell Inspiron, Windows 10 Laptop. I think it was made around a year and a half ago, when I first got the laptop. It was a gift from my brother.
This laptop has a full touch screen which bends over all the way to become a tablet. My niece, Vani was very excited by this, and once I opened the paint program for her, quickly began experimenting with drawing pictures using her finger.
The metadata of this image file suggests that it was actually made in January — about 4 months from today. Perhaps I don’t remember correctly. I don’t think it was Vani’s first time making pictures with her finger on Paint then.
I found another image made by her — this was made in October 2019, just about a year ago. She was just learning to spell around that time, I think I helped her a little bit on this one. I remember making an instagram story of her when she was making this, let me see if I can find it.
I’m scrolling back in my Instagram archives back to October 2019. Found it. I’m sending it to my computer via whatsapp. I always feel like this is an inefficient method of transferring pictures from my phone to my computer — but it’s easy. I have a whatsapp group with myself called False Alarm, which I use to send these files back and forth.
I named the group False Alarm because at some point, I wanted to use it to send texts I would write but never send to people, or things that I wanted to say but shouldn’t have said to the real people concerned. Whatsapp Web is loading.
It took a while to get it to load, I had to move locations to sit closer to the Wifi in the house. This doc file is structured in pages of fixed size, so it’s impossible to get the next photo to come right below. I’m considering making this on a webpage — but I don’t know which of the many ways to do that I should start with. Maybe this is a good way to start that medium blog I have been wanting to — but it might distract me from the writing so I’ll continue.
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I realize I continued till the images have filled enough space to reach close to the end of this page so that now, when the next image appears, there’s no large blank spaces between the text above and the image below.
Here is a screenshot of the group from my phone. Also, here’s a screenshot of the page above as seen on google docs.
This is a screenshot of the same group from my computer. It’s a bit eerie for me to see sometimes. Oh and here is the video of my niece from the archive:
I realized I can’t add videos to a word doc. I think it’s time to shift to a webpage. I am now writing a story on Medium. I have to uplaod the video to another website first. Unless I can convert this short clip to a GIF and keep the audio.
It took my a while to figure out how to get the video here. It also made me uncomfortable to upload videos of my niece onto the internet. It is an unlisted link now, only visible in this post.
I found some notes on my False Alarm group.
This is a screenshot of the previous image zoomed in on my browser. Many things are open, I am doing many other things while also writing this story.
I’m not sure what I am trying to accomplish here, but it’s a start.
