I decided to start off the week in a productive fashion by knocking out one of the harder assignments for the week.  Before I start, I should mention that I love GIFs.  I find them hilarious, but I’ve never tried to make my own.  That was an ordeal to say the least.  I learned that the MPEG Streaming software doesn’t allow for a large amount of frames, so I had to compress my clip down a whole lot more than I would have liked.  From there it was fairly easy to import into GIMP and create it into a gif.

With that being said, I think the clip came out very well.  A big thanks to the DS106 wiki which has a fantastic tutorial on how to create gifs here.   It may take some trial and error to get a gif that works well, but it’s well worth it.

My first GIF!

This was a clip from my favorite movie ever, “The Big Lebowski,” a movie which is, by far, one of the most hilarious pieces of cinema ever.  If you haven’t seen it, drop whatever your doing, make yourself a white russian, and go see the movie.  The entire rant which leads to the confrontation above can be found here.  Plan on seeing many more gifs from me in the coming months.

In other site news, I’m still fidgeting around with themes and widgets and the like and any creative input would be appreciated considering I am design impaired.