hi, I'm a high school English teacher and I love web weaving. I want to have my students do their own web weavings, but I'm not sure on the best way to go about making one. When you have an idea for one, as in, you settle on a theme, how do you find all the literature/media you weave into the theme? Do you just look up "poems about THEME" or what? Thanks for your help.
Thank you for sending in your ask! I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities, though my process is probably not the most efficient (also I recommend looking at this post and this post where I have answered related questions)
If I don't already have something in mind that would fit a theme I'm going for, I usually do the straightforward thing and, yes, look up "poems about THEME" and similar things. The easiest starting point would probably be going on goodreads.com/quotes and just searching for keywords you have for your theme there (you just have to remember, that quotes can be taken out of context/not exactly fit your idea so it's always better to check the source material and author for the quotes first before using them). Social media is also a pretty good tool - if I feel completely lost, i just go through tumblr tags dedicated to [insert theme].
Apart from literature, I love using music lyrics in my web weavings, which is a somewhat easier ordeal, because if you go through spotify and youtube, there are playlists on literally any topic that could be of help in finding media to use.
Looking for art and photography to use is similar - just looking up the theme on web galleries and social media (and obviously looking up the author to credit) and hoping for the best.
I hope this could be of any help! Good luck to you and your students with web weaving :D
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how do you find things for a web weave? i want to try making them but idk how to find anything really
I have answered similar questions in the past, so I recommend you check out this post and this post
But really the main trick is clearly understandin your main themes/keywords and searching based on that. If you are complete stuck (on, say, c!tommyinnit web with themes of abandonment) you can always straight up look up abandonment web weaving just to get some inspiration and see what other people are using.
Web weaving (sometimes called web-weaving) is a genre of transformative works of art, originated on Tumblr! A web weaving is a combination of various pieces of media from different sources, united by a common theme, topic or concept. The best way to get the concept of web weaving, in my opinion, is to look at the examples of it, so feel free to browse through my blog first or check out some of those web weavings made by other people [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
• Who are you and what is this blog for?
Well, I am the person who is running @mcytwebweaving, feel free to call me Web :D My goal for this blog is to do the type of art I like for the fandoms I enjoy, the type of art being web weaving, and fandoms being everything mcyt-related. Also I hope that this thing here will help to spread some awareness about this obscure fan work genre and get more people to appreciate it, so ig this is also part of my mission?
• Can we request a web weaving?
PLEASE DO! But as long as you follow some rules here :P
1. Before requesting, check the request status in my profile - if requests are OPEN, go ahead! If they are CLOSED, please wait until the requests are open again!
2. Feel free to request any characters as long as they are related to Minecraft/Minecraft Youtubers. This includes less known ones, however, if I am not familiar with them, I may ask for more details!
3. Fandoms I am familiar with: Hermitcraft, Dream SMP, Untitled SMP, Voltz Wars, Redstoner, Yandere High School, Bear SMP, Earth SMP, Evo SMP, 3rd Life SMP, MCC
4. When requesting, name a character, fandom they are from and a theme, trait or a period I should center around
• Can we tag you in our web weavings/ask you to spread info about our own web weaving blogs?
Feel free to do so, as long as it is mcyt-related! I will gladly reblog other people's works 😎
what would you do if you find something really good for a weave but you cant find the source ;-;
Okay, this is a really good question!
Finding the source for an image:
1. Try searching the image through TinEye. It's a reverse image search engine which I have found pretty useful (u can sort results chronologically!)
2. If TinEye gives you nothing (it happened to me with stuff that was first posted on Twitter/Instagram and then got reposted a lot on Pinterest), try reverse image search on Google. It will give you a lot of Pinterest links, but that can be useful too - sometimes people on Pinterest will include the @ of the author of a photo/art, so you can use it's built-in image search function to find a repost with credit
3. This is my last resort tool, and it may not be useful to most people, but Yandex has a pretty good reverse image search. Here's the catch: it's in russian 👉👈. I don't use it much apart from occasional image searching, so idk if you can change languages, or how efficient it will be depending on your location, but it works for me.
Finding a source for text:
1. The most obvious step is googling the quote/lyric you are trying to find an author of. Tip: if you put it in "quotations", google will only give you the results with this exact phrasing, so it makes things easier.
2. If the quote you have encountered in the wild was in a form of screenshot, you can try reverse searching it as an image. It won't give you an author straight away, but you may find people who used it (in, say, other web weaving/aesthetic posts) with credit.
If you found the thing you want to use on someone's blog or personal account, you can also try asking them about the origins!
Finally, if I cannot find the source for something using all methods I know, I don't use it, even if it fits very well, but it's my personal choice :]
im making my own web weaving blog! i was wondering if it was alright for me to use your explanation of it since it's...better than anything I could probably come up with, lol
Of course! My explanation is me putting all definitions I could find in a mental blender anyway, so I don't think I can claim ownership over it, haha
Also when you make your blog, please tell me your @, I would love to follow :D
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have been thinking about making a web weaving for my oc/sona, Web (yes the one in pfp), but idk if it should go on this blog or not,,, does it count if I'm technically a minecraft youtuber myself??
hello web! hope you're doing well :D just out of curiosity, how do you collect material for your web weaves? what's your creative process like? big fan of your work <3
Omg thank you so much!!! I'm doing okay, have been very busy with some stuff tho (so sorry for the lack of original content 😅). I will get back into it soon tho, already have some stuff in the making!
I have already answered asks about where exactly do I get all the materials I use from, so I won't elaborate on that part, but here is my normal process: (it's under Read More bc the post turned out longer that I expected haha)
• Starting point is either me getting a request, or my brain going "haha remember that quote/image you saw on tumblr 2 weeks ago? would it be fucked up or what to connect it with a character you like?" (btw in that case I almost never end up using the original quote/image that gave me inspiration for some reason)
• Then I outline some key words about the web weaving I am going to make. I usually go for very abstract and broad concepts, so I can encounter some more interesting stuff. Around that stage I also visualize what exact media I would like to use. Basically, when I go into the "search for the stuff to use" part, I already have a pretty clear understanding of what I will be going for
• And then I go through the websites, Tumblr tags and online archives looking for stuff. I start by searching for stuff relating to my key words, then based on what u find, I can change things up. Actually, about 90% of the time, my website turn out really different from how I imagined them to be at first, just because I encounter some interesting things that I like more. For example, my first knifetrick web weaving wasn't supposed to be centered around the theme of hands at all - the thing I started with was that quote about Jackie laughing like a seagull or something, and I never ended up using it. But even if I throw all of my plans in the window, I wouldn't say that visualisation and coming up with concepts is meaningless work - if you have a direction to move in, you won't be overwhelmed with options.
If I see something that I can't use for a certain theme/character, but I think may be useful for something else, I save it too, so it makes the work a bit easier in future. To avoid all those different things cluttering in my Downloads, I keep separate folders for each web I am working on/could potentially do.
This is definitely the longest part of my work process, partly because despite the 10 image limit per post Tumblr has, I usually save much more stuff to use for each web weaving.
• Compiling/formatting this all in a post and giving credit is the last thing I do. Since I have an excess of material, I have to think what I will keep. My main priorities are 1) matching the theme and 2) keeping a consistent look. With quotes/song lyrics I sometimes can copy paste them into a google doc and play around with fonts, text and background colors. Then I think of positioning it all, which is more important than you may think. In my dsmp!tommyinnit web the colors in both the text and images go from warm orange/yellow hues to grey (it's more obvious with pictures tbh), as a way to symbolize a feeling of desperation and loneliness settling in. I don't even know how many people notice stuff like that, but it's important to me, so I do it. Last thing is putting down the credits (Don't forget your credits, kids!!). Usually it's formatted like [title of the media], [authors name], and images get links to sources :].
That's pretty much it! One web takes me around 4 hours to finish, so it's a pretty long process, and I put a lot of thoughts behind it all :] Sorry it's so long, I am actually glad I had an opportunity to share a little step by step! :D
