College: What’s in it for me? What’s it cost? And will I hate my life?

College: What’s in it for me? What’s it cost? And will I hate my life?

by Reverend

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March 12, 2013

Today was the first day of registration for Summer classes, and I am planning on teaching ds106 in the first five-week session (May 20th through June 18th). The class filled up the allotted 15 spots before noon, and I started … Continue reading →
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At least it’s an ethos

by Reverend

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March 4, 2013

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 … Continue reading →
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Assault on Precinct 13 Trading Cards: The Ice Cream Truck

by Reverend

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February 25, 2013

Here is another addition to the “Movie Trading Cards—now with more animation!” assignment. Sorry for the dark subject matter of this one, but John Carpenter’s vision of urban gangs and thug life in Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) was even … Continue reading →
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The Dead Zone Trading Cards: The Hockey Game Vision

by Reverend

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February 24, 2013

Just finished up my Animated Movie Trading Cards tutorial, and I figured I’d share my most recent creation that was made alongside documenting the tutorial. It’s inspired by the mad genius of David Cronenberg’s early films. This is one of … Continue reading →
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Animated Movie Trading Card Tutorial

by Reverend

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February 24, 2013

As promised, I’ve created a tutorial for the “Movie Trading Cards—Now With More Animation!” assignment I did earlier today. The tutorial was written in the spirit of the Animated GIF tutorial I wrote a while back which seems to have … Continue reading →
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Movie Trading Cards—now with animation!

by Reverend

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February 24, 2013

Inspired by the Sno-Cat movie trading card for The Shining, I started messing around with how I could do this in GIMP. While playing I started to think, why can’t we animate the movie scenes? A few hours later I … Continue reading →
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Belated ds106 Valentine

by Reverend

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February 23, 2013

I’ve been crushed lately, so my ds106 assignments have fallen to the wayside, but as I begin to emerge from the crazy—which is all good—I find I am just in time for the design assignments (my personal favorite). What’s more, … Continue reading →
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What about the UMW Students?!

by Reverend

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February 19, 2013

Lest I forget after paying all sorts of love to the UMW faculty for the emergence of the digital at UMW in my last post that there’s another part to this whole equation: the students! I always find myself in … Continue reading →
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It Takes a Liberal Arts Village to Raise a Digital Campus

by Reverend

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February 18, 2013

UMW alum-cum-journalist Lindley Estes wrote an article today in the local Fredericksburg paper, The Free-Lance Star, about the brave new digital world emerging at UMW (forgive them the ads and video commercials, online publishing has confounded more than a few newspapers). It’s pretty cool … Continue reading →
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Rambo Kills

by Reverend

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February 14, 2013

The other day in our Domain of One’s Own faculty initaitive cohort we were talking about embedding media in a blog, and one of the faculty pointed us to the site infogr.am, and while looking for an example to embed … Continue reading →
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The Ice Man Killeth or, Dr Oblivion….is that you?

by Reverend

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February 14, 2013

The great George Meadows sent the image below of a book about a cold-blooded killer who lived a double life as a suburban New Jersey family man. Crazy story, from what I could glean, having killed over 100 people during … Continue reading →
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the GIF

by Reverend

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February 6, 2013

Before I say anything else, just take a moment to see how brilliant Andrew Forgrave is at GIFFing, his recent commentary on the Animated GIF Variety Show Tom Woodward, Michael Branson Smith, Brian Lamb, Zack Dowell, and I presented last … Continue reading →
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Manatee!

by Reverend

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January 16, 2013

While playing with the movies tag on UMW Blogs’ sitewide tags site this morning I realized that Megan McMillan (who took ds106 in Spring 2011) is continuing to kill the course two years later! To Megan’s great credit (and my relief) she … Continue reading →
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A Serling Vision of Faith

by Reverend

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January 2, 2013

I was catching up on my RSS feeds last night when I came across this gem from Rod Serling via John Kenneth Muir—who is one hell of a b-culture blogger. I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in … Continue reading →
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Great Train Robbery GIF

by Reverend

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January 2, 2013

Here’s an old gold gif, 1903 old, taken from Edwin Porter’s The Great Train Robbery. It is easy to see how this image inspired a similar shot in Gun Crazy, which you can see as a GIF below.
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Yie Ar Kung-Fu GIFs

by Reverend

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December 31, 2012

This series of GIFs is in honor of the 1985 classic arcade game Yie Ar Kung-Fu. I’ve already written about my love for this game on the bava, so I’ll save you my usual flood of verbiage. For the record, this … Continue reading →
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Some Classic Arcade GIFs

by Reverend

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December 28, 2012

Here are a few cutscenes from some classic arcade games. I could do classic video game GIFs all day. Given that, I imagine there are many more of these to come, in the meantime can you name all five without … Continue reading →
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5 Years Later

by Reverend

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December 22, 2012

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Animate 2600: Video Pinball

by Reverend

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December 22, 2012

There might be some pinball purists out there who will want to burn me at the stake for this heresy, but give me Atari 2600′s Video Pinball over a “real” pinball machine anytime. That whole face-to-face argument for pinball is … Continue reading →
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Animate 2600: Haunted House

by Reverend

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December 21, 2012

I always knew Haunted House was a classic Atari 2600 game, what I didn’t know is that it inspired a whole new genre of survival horror video games! From the Wikipedia article: Haunted House is an Atari 2600 video game, first released in 1982, … Continue reading →
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8-bit Noir

by Reverend

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December 21, 2012

My kids and I have been playing a fair bit of Atari 2600 games lately using the Stella emulator, which works for Mac, PC and Linux—what platform doesn’t love Atari 2600? When playing the 1980 classic Night Driver I was struck … Continue reading →
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Dead Zone Crash

by Reverend

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December 20, 2012

Here is my first experiment with animated GIF montage. It’s pretty hard to do, and this attempt is from perfect, but I am starting to get a sense of how this works—and want to do a series focusing on David … Continue reading →
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Gun Crazy GIFs

by Reverend

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December 19, 2012

The 1950 film Gun Crazy has been on my mind a bit these days, particularly the first scene wherein the protagonist steals a gun from the local hardware store. The whole film centers around the morbid fascination with guns in the … Continue reading →
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An Internet of Attractions

by Reverend

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November 30, 2012

As of late my two year old son, very soon to be three, has eschewed all forms of narrative video on YouTube. He’s dispensed with the Thomas the Tank Engine scam (that series is all about being a useful worker, akin … Continue reading →
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Give it Up for the GIF

by Reverend

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November 17, 2012

I come to this news late, I know, but I certainly would hate to pass up the chance to engage in some gratuitous GIF love. The word of the year, according to the Oxford University Press, is GIF. That has … Continue reading →
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A Minimalistic Thing is Front Page Material

by Reverend

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October 21, 2012

I didn’t make it up to Middletown, PA for the showing of The Thing last night to benefit the Elks Theatre that needs to raise money to convert its project equipment to digital—as do all exisiting theaters in the U.S. … Continue reading →
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EdStartUp meets the bava!

by Reverend

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October 10, 2012

Earlier today I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with David Wiley and Todd Manwaring as part of their EdStartUp 101 course. We talked for an hour in a Google Hangout broadcast live to YouTube about a wide range … Continue reading →
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Tumbling through The Shining

by Reverend

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September 14, 2012

There is this…. From which this was born… And then there is this… Which I already turned into a ds106 design assignment here. Have I mentioned how much I love my Tumblr these days? And in no small part because I can follow the … Continue reading →
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Criss Cross: Sharpening Her Nails

by Reverend

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August 26, 2012

I think the noir animated GIFs this semester are going to be fun! This GIF features Anna Dundee (played by Yvonne DeCarlo) sharpening her nails in Robert Siodomak’s 1948 noir Criss Cross, a film wherein Burt Lancaster reprises his role … Continue reading →
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The Killers Animated GIF: Headlights

by Reverend

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August 25, 2012

This is the opening scene from Robert Siodomak’s 1946 noir classic The Killers, which is an extrapolation of Ernest Hemingway's short story by the same name. That’s part of why Hemingway starts off the hardboiled course, and this film is … Continue reading →
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