I'm creating a scrapbook for my ghost hunting anthropology project and I am looking for stuff like stickers and other 2-D decorations, or slightly 3-D, that I can use to bring alive my scrapbook. The thing that I find most difficult is finding anything related to ghosts that isn't too trick-or-treat for this project. Can any of you guys give me ideas or give me links to things I can use? The scrapbook pages are black, by the way.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hmmm. I'm having problems finding non-"cutesy" things, too. Have you ever seen the show Ghost Whisperer? The opening credits have kind of a creepy feel to them and are done mostly with images made from or to look like old, turn-of-the-last-century portrait photographs. (If you haven't seen it and want to, you can watch the show here.)
Similarly, other "supernatural" shows I can think of {The X-Files, Medium) tend to have kind of an abstract-image/disconnected/distorted thing going on for their opening credit sequences. So it's probably not much help, but maybe you can get a style idea from some of that? Black and white, grainy photos of places that look like you would hunt ghosts or objects that might be "haunted" (an old, creepy tree stump, things like that), blown up and photocopied, could be glued on to a scrapbook page and then journalling could be done with that as a background, is my first idea.
Again, probably not helpful, sorry. I'm not good at the scrapbooking thing.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Since you're in graphic design anyway, my advice would be to find images you like and get custom stickers made at CafePress.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I'm an animator...
EDIT: I'm good with making images in PhotoShop anyway and I was thinking that CafePress could be a good option, but that could also wind up being very expensive. XD
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Meh, not that much more expensive than buying branded stickers retail. I've always found stickers to be somewhat horrifyingly expensive.
HA! HA! HORRIFYING! AND IT'S A GHOST PROJECT! GYAHAHA! HAAAA!
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac: Meh, not that much more expensive than buying branded stickers retail. I've always found stickers to be somewhat horrifyingly expensive.
HA! HA! HORRIFYING! AND IT'S A GHOST PROJECT! GYAHAHA! HAAAA!
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EDIT: I guess I agree with you there, but I don't know if I'd be able to get die-cut stickers in Cafe Press...
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I found this set, which is kind of what I'm looking for. I'm having a hard time finding things that are as serious looking as this one, though.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
Die cut, not so much. Edit: But you could still get them printed and cut them yourself?
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Hmm, I could cut them myself with an X-acto knife, but I wonder how good of a job I'd do.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
You don't have to get them printed if you have a decent laser printer. You can get transparent sticker paper and do it yourself, and if it's transparent it won't matter as much if you cut it perfectly or leave a little "wiggle room."
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I have a color ink jet printer. :'0 That doesn't sound too laser-like.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I think there might be some transparent sticker paper that works with ink-jets, but I'm not sure.
I'll go check.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Okay, they do. They even make glow in the dark and holographic inkjet sticker paper.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
WoO0oo00oOO...that seems interesting...
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
You might investigate New Orleans on the web -- they have ghost tours. Don't know much more about it than that, though.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
What kind of anthropology class is this?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Print images on vellum paper and try to find an adhesive that doesn't show. Or print images and put the vellum paper over to soften the images.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
quote:Originally posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan: What kind of anthropology class is this?
Well, it's just an anthropology class... For my project, I have to make an in-depth study of a micro-culture, and I chose the ghost hunting culture.
I've got lots of ghost hunting activities already set and ready to go, it's the presentation of the project that is worrying me a little because that is basically what the scrapbook is.
There were two parts to this project, one of them is already past and I got 100% on it plus some extra credit.
The first part is observing the micro-culture and for that I went to the Whaley House and Campo Santo Cemetery in Old Town San Diego.
For my final project, I have to actively participate in the micro-culture; become a part of it. Hence I'm going on a whole bunch of ghost hunting adventures.
On March 3, my friends and I (of course I'm not doing this alone ) are stepping into the Whaley House at night (with permission from the city, of course!) and afterwards, we're walking to the cemetery I mentioned which is about a block away. I'll be taking an audio recorder (for EVP), a miniDV camcorder, a 3mp digital camera and perhaps a polaroid instant camera.
For my second trip, my mother and I will ride the Amtrak to San Jose where we will both attend a tour of the infamous Winchester Mystery House.
For my third activity, I'll have a nice conversation with the leader of the San Diego Paranormal Research Project regarding ghosts and all that stuff that only a hard core member of this micro-culture could know.
For my fourth and final activity, I want to do something that I've always wanted to do. Have the camera on record and point at the screen. So that an endless loop of record is created. When you are recording, it looks like static, but when it's played back it looks like nothing you've seen before.
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) are stepping into the Whaley House at night (with permission from the city, of course!) and afterwards, we're walking to the cemetery I mentioned which is about a block away. I'll be taking an audio recorder (for EVP), a miniDV camcorder, a 3mp digital camera and perhaps a polaroid instant camera.