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Perfect Office Chair

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This attempt at a GIF here was inspired by the DS106 Visual Assignment, “Where Did All The Soda Go?“. This assignment was fairly easy to do now, and it asked us to create a gif from a hilarious (I think ridiculous) moment in an infomercial. So for this gif I decided to use a the infomercial for the wonderful Hawaii Chair. Just picture yourself in the office in one of these working out and multitasking as well.It just seems like the perfect idea.

To make this gif I used pretty much the same process as before that is demonstrated in Michael Smith’s tutorial for doing gifs. I downloaded the video from YouTube using KeepVid which I like also because you don’t need to install any application on your system to use it, its web-based. Then like with previous gifs open the video which I downloaded in the MP4 format in MPEG stream clip, which allows you to clip or trim out a section of video you want. Then export it as an image sequence in the tiff file format. Then simply open this list of images in GIMP and link all the layers together. What I did which I don’t think Michael included was then to add an animation filter which optimizes to layer for a gif. Then especially if you are working in Windows rather than Mac at home like I am, you export not save the the layers to the gif format and name and place in location you wish.

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Ouch!!

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“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.” DS106 Assignment

This is from the Get a Grip infomercial. I was looking through youtube for horrible infomercials and found this. I guess this is a serious issue for some people but the acting is horribe. Get a grip is somthin that you put in your shower to help you not slip in the floor or prevent you from falling. This guy is clearly not falling and he is steping on the rug which is not slippery.

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Dammit Tyrone.

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I chose this infomercial because WHO POURS CEREAL LIKE THIS?! Also I love the “Shit Tyrone, get it together.” memes and this just fit it so well.

This was my first animated gif made with Photoshop CS6 using a tutorial I found via Google. I found it in a compilation of infomercial fails. (Kind of a cheat but it got the job done)

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Perfect for those Drafty Castles!**

Castles, dorm rooms, they all are the same! Well that being said, you guessed it, perfect for those drafty dorm rooms means SNUGGIES! Yes, I admit that I am an owner of the As Seen on TV phenomenon, I’ll even do you one better and tell you that mine has my name embroidered on it. What can I say? I don’t want someone stealing my Snuggie! Immediately when I saw the 2 star visual assignment which called for making a GIF showing how tacky infomercials are the clouds parted and a ray of sunshine entered my life. I love watching these infomercials on YouTube and I probably could watch them all day. So I immediately went to the OfficialSnuggie YouTube channel and searched for my favorite part of the commercials, the Snuggie wave as I like to call it. Yes that is right, they are advertising wearing Snuggies at sporting events so that you can do the wave while watching. But my favorite part of this is the one person in the front row not wearing a Snuggie who is shivering and clearly not having a good time. I also enjoy the kid in the front row who is way too early (I may have watched this a bit too much).

So here was my final product, and you can read the long winded way of outsmarting my computer to get the final result below! (This way I don’t bore you with the details)

So here is the story. When I made my first ever GIF I had difficulties downloading the MPEG Streamclip because of something having to do with my Internet Explorer hating my computer. So the ds106 handbook entry on how to make a GIF was useless at the beginning. So I didn’t want to use a website because I enjoy doing things like this on my own, so my mission was to get pictures from the video clip so that I could put them in GIMP. Last time I used iLivid to do this part, however it gave my computer a virus so I shunned it from my kingdom completely and spat on it (figuratively). So I did what any normal princess would do, and just took tons and tons of screenshots of the video while watching it in YouTube (don’t believe me, look at the bottom of the “whole” and you’ll see the video cursor!). Anyway, so I took a screenshot then would paste it as a new layer in GIMP and ended up having 23 layers. Not sure about the ordering of how it would work, I started with the last frame and worked my way forward. So I had to get rid of the rest of my computer screen from the print screen image and simply used the Selection Crop tool which only keeps what is in the selected area and it worked on all the layers which was awesome. So I simply hit the filters, animation, playback and noticed that I had the layers in the wrong order. Lucky for me, GIMP is awesome (sorta), and I simply hit layers, stack, reverse layer order and all was fine and dandy!

Long story short, life making GIFs is so much easier with MPEG Steamclip.

Stay warm, or get a Snuggie!

Princess Karissa

Infomercial GIF

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The #ETMOOC animated GIF conversation hosted by Jim Groom last night ended with a brief discussion of the potential the GIF to be cooped by the advertising industry. Seeking to capture the eyeballs of the ever shorter and shorter attention spans of the browsers of the internet the GIF seems perfect.

I thought I might give the corporates a look at what a proper GIF advertising campaign’s assets might look like. Your lovely video has me wondering how I might spray your lovely solution over every surface of my home to keep it free from dirt, marks, and/or stains. But these little GIF nuggets are the real viral bits to slather all over the internet.

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Where did the Soda Go?

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Submitted by: Nate Wine

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.