Find or scan an old advertisement (high resolution) and create a piece of cool clip art by extracting and cleaning up a particular element. Be sure to use a PNG file type to preserve transparencies, and try to make a high and medium resolution version. Inspired by Phil A Go’s awesome Toyota Corona Graphic Gift.

Ben Rimes regularly takes a day (February 2012 and December 2012) to capture key moments each as an animated GIF – as you go through a day look around and identify places, moments, things that are well represented in the infinite looping form. Assemble at least 5 of them to capture the essences of your day, start to end and publish as a single blog post, with narrative.

What does it mean to see your day in just this form?

Now, I like graffiti as much as the next guy, except when it’s spray painted on my house. But you know what makes it even better? If it moves! Check out Animated Banksy for inspiration (http://madebyabvh.tumblr.com/tagged/Animated-Banksy). Photograph some graffiti or street art, or find a photo if you’re lazy, and make it into an animated GIF. It’s more fun than vandalism!

_cokwr: Use no more than 10 animated GIFs to tell the story of the movie of your choice., _cpzh4: Visual, _cre1l: http://lisahistoryds106.posterous.com/38060181, _chk2m: Tim Owens, _ciyn3: 3, _ckd7g: VisualAssignments3, _clrrx: VisualAssignments, _cztg3: VisualTutorials3

Inspired by reddit’s “Where did the Soda Go?” board at http://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago, create a gif of a hilarious infomercial moment that illustrates how ridiculous some infomercials can be.

Let’s face it, ds106 is a difficult ship to sail. Besides the shark-infested copyright waters and the mine filled seas of comment-apathy, it can be hard to keep the ds106 boat going forward all the time. So let’s honor the fact that the site will more than likely continue to endure growing pains, and provide some excellent “technical difficulty” signs/gifs/media that can be displayed the next time the site goes down….wait, it’s working now, right?

Take a picture of your pet, and make an animated GIF from the photo.

Take two photos of the same subject from slightly different angles. Merge the two photos into a single looped, animated gif to create a wiggle stereoscopic image that simulates 3-D. A very good tutorial explaining the full process can be found on Martin Sutherland’s website.

Rather than making animated GIFs from movie scenes, for this assignment, generate one a real world object/place by using your own series of photographs as the source material. Bonus points for minmal amounts of movement, the subtle stuff. See a bunch of examples at http://cogdogblog.com/2012/02/10/photo-gif-peanut-butter/