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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 ...
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, ...
The Big Steal
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More BBC inspired giffing. nice to see some B&W back on the box. The Big Steal – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia described as a noir/comedy staring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer is great stuff. I just marched through the movie grabbing some sections with Movie2Gif – John’s World Wide Wall Display doing a little extra cleaning up in fireworks. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to find any section to illustrate the most interesting aspects of the movie. Firstly the female lead was I feel treated as more of an equal that usual. The only North American who could speak good Spanish, ...
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! ...
Beat Gif
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Wandering round youtube I found Jack Kerouac (rare footage) / Cat Power – Good Woman – YouTube. Most of the Kerouac I’ve seen have been chat show footage with a drunk Kerouac. This clip shows his gentler side. Unfortunately to get the gif file size down I had to crush it hard. Playflow: Downloaded the mp4 with Fastesttube in Safari. Loaded it into Movie2Gif and exported some gifs, all with 15 frames. Opened fireworks and did a wee bit of cropping of some of the gifs. Created a new document in Fireworks, imported and placed the gifs. Made a new ...
5 from 39
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Enjoyed the original 39 steps on the TV the other night. Some giffable moments: I just skimmed through a downloaded version in Movie2Gif and exported a few gifs. One or two I edited a wee bit in fireworks. Most of the DS106 croud seem to use GIMP or photoshop for giffing but I like Fireworks. Movie2Gif is just a fronted for Gifsicle which does a nice job of stitching frames together from stills. Fireworks is good for grabing a bit of a frame and ‘spreading’ it over all the other frames to freeze that section ...
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 ...
Mutant muppet party puppets
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I had an idea to combine Muppet GIFs and Rock ‘n Roll GIFs by working with the awesome Sequestered in Muppets video, but I couldn’t do justice to the original. So instead I used the mutant muppet party puppets from The Coup’s Your Parents’ Cocaine video. My rock ‘n roll peeps would probably say this video doesn’t qualify, and since they’re not real muppets, maybe he project fails on all counts. Too bad. I like the mohawk guy.