I don’t even know where I stand on this whole #Sockgate thing. But I am standing somewhere. I think it’s kind of over on the side. I mean, sure, I’d take some socks. Are there socks? AnimatedGIFAssignments, AnimatedGIFAssignments972
I was in a Starbucks the other day and thought of this assignment while I was waiting in front of the bottled water display. I was trying to think of how it could be turned into a commercial, using “At least it’s an Ethos!” as the slogan. But I didn’t get very far.
Then I saw Talky Tina’s take on the Batman and Robin running scared assignment and thought I should work with that.
Maybe calling a phobia an ethos is stretching the definition, but so what? The Wikipedia page for pediophobia has a cool chart explaining one of the theories behind the phobia.
I had an idea for a new ds106 animated GIF assignment titled “At least its an ethos.” It might be much better in my mind than in reality, but here it goes anyway. Take the line from The Big Lebowski “Say what you will about National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos…
I can’t pretend that I fully understand the deeper nuances of Jim Groom’s new Animated GIF assignment 972, “At Least It’s an Ethos,” (“…so Walter Sobchack is referring to Nihilism in the scene we are quoting when defining National Socialism as an ethos, my idea for this (now convoluted) assignment ….“) but I figured that Bill and Ted‘s continual use of “Dude” and “Party-on, Dude” constituted some kind of -ism, and the framing of Robert V. Barron as Abraham Lincoln was just too good not to GIF. The second GIF works wonderfully as a summative representation of the 87 “dude” utterances in the movie, and does, very concisely, represent their Dudism tenet. That, and the finger-wiggler was a dead-give-away smack-me-on-the-side-of-the-head-and-GIF-it-NOW image.
Abraham Lincoln Finger-Wiggler GIF by aforgrave
“Party-On, Dudes” Dudism GIF, by aforgrave
The “Big-Lebowski-Ethos-Dudism” Animated GIF, by aforgrave
You want more highbrow? Here are Bill and Ted, saying “Dude,” over and over again.
And if you enjoyed that, you may enjoy this video of Homer Simson saying “doh!”
Wonders never cease.
I think I get what Jim’s going after with this new animated GIF assignment, At Least It’s an Ethos. At first I thought I should just discover a well articulated life philosophy and Spicolli’s renouncing the material life is well, perfect. But then there was the thing about attaching an -ism to this ethos. So I did the best I could to find one.
I had an idea for a new ds106 animated GIF assignment titled “At least its an ethos.” It might be much better in my mind than in reality, but here it goes anyway. Take the line from The Big Lebowski “Say what you will about National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos” and change National Socialism to a different -ism, like, for example, Veganism. Here is the GIF for you to use as a template to change National Socialism to a different -ism. Now here’s the trick, after that you need a GIF to setup the punchline. So Walter Sobchack is referring to Nihilism in the scene we are quoting when defining National Socialism as an ethos, my idea for this (now convoluted) assignment came from Tom Woodward’s unsettling animated GIF of me eating Roy Rogers chicken back in 2009, which could only lead me to the following punchline:
The veganism is an inside joke because my house is currently being visited by this -ism and things are very tough for me right now 
Take the line from the film The Big Lebowski “Say what you will about National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos” and change National Socialism to a different -ism, like, for example, [[Veganism]]. Here is the GIF for you to use as a template to change National Socialism to a different -ism. Now here’s the trick, after that you need a GIF to setup the punchline. So Walter Sobchack is referring to Nihilism in the scene we are quoting when defining National Socialism as an ethos, my idea for this (now convoluted) assignment came from Tom Woodward’s unsettling animated GIF of me eating Roy Rogers chicken, which could only lead me to the following punchline…
