➢ Hi! My name is Hop, and this is my Application to be Front-Page Curator. Click or tap on the icons to check out each one, and press the arrows to navigate the informative slides! ───────────────── ➢ You can see my sample studio here! https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/33661649/ ───────────────── ➢ An explanation of the symbols: Boswell has the pen and inkwell because he was the recorder of The Club, Reynolds has the paintbrush because he was an artist, Burke has the scales because he was a politician, Garrick has the comedy and tragedy masks because he was an actor, Smith has a Shilling and Guinea coin because he was an economist, and Johnson has sparkles because I like him. (His orange background is also significant, because the orange peel has anecdotally been a symbol of him!) ───────────────── ➢ I must confess: some of the information about curation and all is purposefully dragged out, because I wanted to write more about the members of the Club. Oliver Goldsmith was initially part of this project, but I ran out of room. Sorry Goldsmith! ───────────────── ➢ Fun fact: Samuel Johnson gave most of the members of The Club nicknames! Boswell, most famously, was Bozzy, Reynolds was Renny, David Garrick was Davy, Edmund Burke was Mund, and more. Others include Thomas Sheridan, who was "Sherry-Derry." One of his friends, the young Frances Burney, already had a name ending in 'y' - so he affectionately called her "Toad."
➢ Credits: ───────────────── • Music is "Harmony" by Vlad Gluschenko and "A New Day" by Mixaund, both under Creative Commons Liscence 3.0! I found both on free-stock-music.com . • Though I wrote much of this from memory, I'd like to thank Leo Damrosch Jr. for writing /The Club/, the second book on Johnson that I ever read! It's a great book; I'd highly recommend it. • Besides for the paintings, all art was done in the Scratch Vector editor! (Even the pictures were edited with BitMap.) • The background texture is actually the cover of a book: /Critical Opinions of Johnson/ by J. E. Brown! ───────────────── ➢ You might be able to see that Samuel Johnson has heterochromia in his portrait! And that's an absolute lie; both of his eyes were grey. I don't know exactly why he was depicted that way in this image in particular: the closest thing that he had to heterochromia was blindness in his left eye. It's my favourite image of him, though - all the rest of them show him squinting, which is actually a way in which he didn't want to be depicted. (This form of depiction is typically called "Blinking Sam," referring to the result of both his semi-blindness and Tourette's.) ───────────────── ➢ I wasn't able to actually fit it in my Bio, but I'm also a volunteer of the team behind JohnsonsDictionaryOnline.com , and a member of the James Boswell Society! Also, I'm the captain of my school's Academic League team. ───────────────── ➢ I'm not too sure how it works, because this is my first time working with Cloud Variables, but don't vote twice or otherwise change the count wrongfully, please! Changes: Slight alterations to Johnson's sprite
