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Midnight GIF of the Midday VIA
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Midnight GIF of the Midday VIA Train, by aforgrave Sometimes, less is more. Sometimes, the first photo of the day is the best. As animated GIFs go, this one had the potential to be the easiest, it-fell-right-into-my-lap-and-it-was-done GIF. But No. I remembered Alan Levine‘s Animated GIF Assignment 857 “All Aboard the GIF Train” earlier this week, and made a quick attempt to grab a video of the train while it was getting ready to leave the local station. By the time I got in position and ready to shoot, I realized that my camera battery was almost dead. Following the ...
You’ve Come A Long Way, GIFby
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Watch your step on the sidewalk of yesteryear’s Information Highway I’m 99.9% convinced that the first time I saw and recognized and animated gif for what it was, it was something very much like one of these: Maybe you have similar memories? (Hopefully they are not PTSD-induced flashbacks!) Clearly the image of website construction was influenced by the metaphor of building the Information Highway at the time. 2012 celebrated the 25th anniversary of the GIF, and provided many wonderful examples of how the venerable image format has matured into a platform for art, and as a source of ds106 ...
Deleted Scene from “Reçette Pas Nécessaire” Later Shows Up in “The Shining”
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“Deleted Scene from “Reçette Pas Nécessaire” (print damaged during processing) by aforgrave, on Flickr A poorly developed film negative (see above) resulted in this scene being edited out of the final cut of the third film in Julia Child’s “Le Chef de la mort” action trilogy, “Reçette Pas Nécessaire.” You can get some sense of the original drama in this animated GIF assembled from two frames salvaged from the scene: “Deleted Scene from “Reçette Pas Nécessaire” (restored as animated GIF) by aforgrave, on Flickr As her fans know, Child was often heard exclaiming, “Why use just one knife, when a cleaver ...
Since Inception, DS106 Radio Is TOPS! #2years #4life
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“Since Inception” by aforgrave, on Flickr Are you listening? Well, ARE you listening? You better be! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DS106RADIO !!!! YOU ROCK !!! #ds106radio is celebrating its second birthday this weekend. Of course you’ve listened to the open, online, free-form internet radio offshoot of the University of Mary Washington’s Digital Storytelling course, DS106, RIGHT?? I’m sure that DS106Radio’s stickiness comes directly off of Grant Potter’s duct tape. The ds106 community embraces, encourages, supports, and requires the striving for creativity and expression. Happy Birthday, ds106radio! The image is captured from Christopher Nolan’s 2010 mind-bending film, Inception, from the scene were Cobb ...
Marnie
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“Marnie” by aforgrave, on Flickr From HItchcock‘s 1964 film of the same name. Here, Marnie (played by Tippi Hedren) waits quietly in the washroom stall at work at the end of the day while waiting for everyone else to leave. The camera focuses on her for the duration of the scene, while she listens and waits to hear the other ladies finish their small talk and leave for home. Once all is quiet, she then re-enters the office to burgle the safe. Over the course of the film, her husband (played by Sean Connery) continues to rescue her from prosecution, ...
Advancing Storm
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“memories” by jasleen_kaur, on Flickr(CC BY-SA 2.0) In support of my renewed commitment to the Photo-A-Day Project 365 endeavour, I’ve been transferring images off of memory cards, and started sorting and cataloging photos from as far back as the summer of 2011. It’s actually been that long since I took a disciplined approach to managing my images! Some may recall (Giulia, so patient!) that it took me most of August 2011 to get whittled through my 800+ photos from Unplug’d11 (I was somehow quicker this past year! I didn’t take as many pics.). Things like our family trip to Washington ...
Infinite Dash of Rainbow
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I’ve had this GIFestivus2012 GIF done for a few days. It’s for Ben Rimes’ Animated GIF Assignment 871: My Little Pony, Friendship is GIFtastic. Rainbow Dash and the other pony look like they’ll be flying for some time now. Check back later to see if they’re on a break. It took quite a bit of fiddling to get this one close to a loop. But now it looks like an old Hanna Barbara cartoon where the characters are fake running in front of the rotating scenery. Still a lot of frames — I edit these things down as best I can! ...
Wishing You the Best for 2013 !!
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Wishing you the very best for the coming year!! This animated GIF is made from a series of screen captures from MineCraft, where the sign for 2013 was built during the last two hours of 2012. Rather than using Lego this year (I’ve kept my previous builds for 2010, 2011, 2012 — I’m running out of blocks) this sign was built from hand-crafted sandstone blocks, and decorated with torches and hewn nether rack. Unlike the 3 previous years, where the signs where smaller than me, in this instance (relatively speaking) the sign is several times my height in the Minecraft ...
OSS117?s Bedhead
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Prior to the two recent film parodies of OSS117 (Cairo, Nest of Spies, and Rio Doesn’t Answer) starring Jean Dujardin, I’d not heard of the original character, secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, who pre-dates Ian Fleming’s James Bond by four years. Appearing first in 1948, OSS 117 was a creation of French author Jean Bruce, who wrote 91 novels in the series, followed by another 143 written by his wife after he passed away, and then continued by their son and daughter, who added another 24 books. That’s a few more books than the 12 Bond books written by Fleming. Although ...
The Slooooow Wait & The Top 89%
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Remember dial-up? Remember when your 14.4 modem just screamed in comparison to the earlier one? Remember when you used to watch the status bar as a small file downloaded? I still remember the magic of the first file arrival, as it came into my computer over the local Datapac dial-up phone connection. Truly amazing at the time. But I also remember this: Interlacing is an option to this day. But for a lot of folks today, their connection is fast enough that images load all at once. Boom. But not everyone has a fast connection. While this little display is ...