In the spirit of the Victor Borge Phonetic Punctuation, assemble a collection of sounds (real objects, your voice) that you can use to replace punctuation marks. Record an audio (or video) of yourself reading something serious- an academic paper, a dry English poem, and use the method to bring those commas, dashes, and semi-colons to life.
To-do lists can help us get stuff done. An animated gif of your completed to-list is evidence of your awesome ability to get stuff done.
1) Use software on your computer, an app on your phone or an old fashioned pen and paper to create a to-do list of tasks or things you need to complete.
2) Start a task or thing on your list. Complete it. For each completed task or thing, take a screen capture or photo and then continue to work through the list.
3) Once you have completed each task or thing on your list, compile your screen captures or photos and then publish as an animated gif.
4) Share your achievement with the world.
It’s often unpredictable! It frequently changes rapidly. Every once it a while, it’s downright spooky! Yes, it’s the weather, man! Whether you are a weather nut or not, take up the challenge to GIF something interesting with the weather. Maybe it’s a weather map? Maybe it’s a weather storm? Maybe it’s a weather news-caster-person, man! But find something cool, and give us something real to talk about when we talk about the weather!!
Search the murderous world of Alfred Hitchcock and find a particularly horrifying moment to be preserved in an animated GIF
The past is strange. Remake this classic Marilyn Monroe “expressions sheet” with self-portraits or with the aid of a friend. Bonus points for the involvement of a stranger.
Jim created the excellent Animate 2600 GIF assignment. Now it’s time to riff on it and remix & mashup classic 8-bit video games from the Atari 2600 era. Mashup two or more different games into the same animated GIF.
Explosive action, athleticism, skill, strategy, teamwork, triumph and repetition are some elements that make up sporting activity. Choose a sporting activity and then make an animated gif that represents one or more of these elements.
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then a GIF must be worth a few thousand words. So a collection of related GIFs must be equivalent to a novel, or a script, or something truly powerful, right??
Tell or relate a story (or link up key ideas or themes from a movie) by assembling a number of animated GIFs into a storyboard or framework. Credit for the idea goes to Jim Groom, who suggested it.
Everyone loves cows. Especially when they are animated as GIFs. They can be your garden variety Jersey milk cows, or the Massively Open Online kind. Just make them moooooooooooove.
Make an animated GIF of clip from an Atari 2600 game.
