This is by no means a masterpiece, but it’s simple and straightforward. I’ll be honest, I feel like I understand how to make GIFs and had done so before this unit so I wasn’t as patient as I probably should have been. I’m probably trying to run before I’ve learned how to walk, #DS106 Gods please forgive me ?. I did learn however to make stop motion GIFs today which was pretty exciting. I look the latest image on GIFfight and was inspired by this fancy entry.
Oh no!!
The ds106.us server was down today. For a long time. One of the unicorns got in touch with me on my iPhone, and we started surfing the web, trying to track down the missing ds106 rainbows.
We searched and searched. We found some of the rainbows. And we tried to get them heading back towards the server.
Perhaps you can help the unicorns and the rainbows? Make an animated GIF celebrating the behind the scenes work that keeps the ds106.us server happy. Again, this was an assignment before there was an Animated GIF category — found hiding in the Visual Assignments category as @cogdog‘s wonderful Visual Assignment 842: Rainbows and Unicorns in the Server Room.
Be sure to tag your post appropriately so that it syndicates into the correct assignment page.
#4life
First of all, I really enjoyed doing this assignment. I liked the randomness of it, and I liked the room for creativity that it allowed me. So, how did I result in this vundabar album cover? Let me tell you.
After extracting the random picture/album title/band name that I was going to be using, which I did on the actual page for the assignment, I started by editing the picture because that was going to be the background for the whole thing. By the way, my random things fit very well together, I think. I imagine a a hipster, indie band of sorts. Anyways, I saved the image, and then I wanted to achieve a kind of pixely look, so once I saved it, I snapped the photo onto my iPhone directly from the computer screen. I don’t know if you’ve ever done this, but it ends up making any picture you take look pixely. It’s weird that it does it, but sometimes, in cases such as this, it can make things look pretty sweet. From there I used an app on my phone, Photoshop Express (a free app; it’s cool, but it doesn’t have all the cool features like the one you can pay for does; it makes editing photos really easy though). I changed the colors of the original photo. And then emailed the photo to myself to call it a day. From there I used paint to add the captions (the band’s name and the album title). I chose a pixely font for the band’s name to go with the theme of it, but I wanted something different for the album title–because I wanted to break up the pixel look, and because it was hard to see the black font of the pixel font on any other part of the cover. I cropped down the size of the picture so that it looked more album cover sized, and uploaded it to flickr, and is the image that you now see above. LOVE it.
This picture shows the new keyboard cover I got for my laptop. It is soo colorful and I really enjoy having it. It can be sometimes distracting but I am glad I got it. There isn’t much to write about when it comes to this blog, I just wanted to show how awesome the new keyboard cover I got was.
The first time I shared the image of my colorful keyboard was on twitter through a picture I took on my camera. To share it with people outside of twitter, I downloaded the picture I uploaded to twitter onto iphoto. I then uploaded the picture onto flickr and tagged it with various tags to allow the public to see it.