This assignment said to post a GIF of cows (any kind).
The remix said to:
“Redo an assignment with a darkness theme of anguished youth- use black colors and metal sounds.”
I like using Giphy.com for GIF assignments.
For this one, I struggled to find one that works, before I found this one, which I think works pretty well.
I saw this assignment and thought, “Oh man I have to do this!” We had to make a gif of cows. I wanted to be a little different, so I did it of baby cows — or calfs. They are adorable that’s why!
I went to youtube again and typed in baby cows. I saw one video and thought there had to be something good in there. I inserted it into the makeagif website. I picked the part I wanted and made it about 5 seconds. There are many ways this could be interpreted as digital storytelling. Anyone could be creative and make up a story of these three calfs that you see in just 5 seconds. I’m still in the process of figuring Gimp out. I will get there! I believe!
Moo Moo Says The Boid GIF, originally uploaded by Rowan Peter.
A dancing bird inspired Moo Moo Says The GIF for DS106 GIFfest. If only I read the assignment brief correctly. Animation is restricted to COWS ONLY. Other animals are not included in the assignment brief. Maybe, just maybe these boids could be considered an unofficial remix.
Stanford is doing it. Harvard is doing it. MIT is doing it. We better do it. Just keep mooing along.
Giulia got the GIF going this before me (and cleverly wrapped it into an Instagram-like GIF with dancing panda, speaking of herding behavior, look at the stampeded over to flickr). I knew when I saw this Cow & Cow & Cow & video that I had to GIF it or do something with it.
The video is worth it for the zany music and the metamoo-phasis of the cows (all rendered brillaintly in Adobe After Affects).
Just look at those Yes Cows. Everybody in agreement. This one was a bit tricky since the entire video had the cows panning. I ended up narrowing it to three frames, and using some pixel nudging to try and align the cows and then crop out the non-overlap. It’s not clean, but neither are cow pastures.
And given that I have GIFfed a cow in my mockubloggery on cows and cheese
(based on the funny wild dog and poor cow cartoon)
surely a ds106 assignment was needed in the bovine category. And Shirley it is, Moo Moo Says the GIF:
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.
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Just to make it complete, I dabbled a bit from a single photo of a strange local sign I spotted when I was having my truck repaired. Pete’s Place is kind of a local landmark in nearby Star Valley. I cannot say I have ever been there, but you can imagine the clientele.
Yep, all those places wanting to be Harvard, Stanford, MIT… just keep your eyes on the dancing girls. Like the cow.
What are you waiting for? Moo it on over and make some GIF art, eh?
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.
