I’ve been playing around with downloading groups of flickr photos and making very quick videos from them. Just blogged some of the process over on my main blog. Being a wee obsessive about this sort of stuff, I’ve created a script that will download all my photos with a particular tag, say dailycreate, and string […]

Three SuperCut videos from season 4 of the wire on the words, school, schooled and schooling after a prompt from Jim Groom. Made with videogrep.py @johnjohnston Could you grep supercut “school” in Season 4 of #TheWire and maybe “schooled” separately to see the distinction #wire106 — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) November 15, 2014 I was surprised […]

It has been a while since I gave the The Daily Create much attention. When I started having a longish train commute I though I do more of this, but the British Rail free wifi blocks flickr and I lost the habit. I do look in on the home page and see tweets and last […]

Fearless Reflection by Sandy Brown Jensen I thought I’d have a wee go at Mariana’s Art on the Couch process. Mariana is carrying out the project to learn about critiquing art, and: Critique is often most instructive for the person offering it. In looking at other people’s work, and formulating your opinion of it, you’re […]

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After the last post I’ve watched a few more episodes and have arrived in Season 3 of the wire. I though it might be interesting to see the overall colours of different episodes or seasons and compare them. Following the same path1 as in the previous post I created a montage of screenshots from Episode […]

(the above gif has nothing to do with the rest of the post, other than it is to do with the wire.) A while back I posted about gifboard and it’s bigger brother storyboard. I’ve played a bit with storyboard and the wire this week. Storyboard is a command line application which creates pdfs from […]

My last couple of posts have been about using and setting up videogrep.py. Videogrep is a python script that searches through dialog in videos and then cuts together a new video based on what it finds. Basically, it’s a command-line “supercut” generator. I’ve been thinking about how to use it, especially since Jim Groom gave […]

This is a quick intro to installing videogrep.py a tool for making supercut movies. Written in haste, consider it a rough draft. Videogrep is a python program run from the command line. This is quite different from using applications with a GUI. I am hoping to write up a few different tools I use for […]

You cannot lose if you do not play. My first post here since April! I missed the whole of the burgeon experience and have done only a handful of daily creates. I am not saying sorry, I have made a few artefacts and experimented with some stuff that is pretty #ds106. There is no really […]

A random Gif A while back I posted about the DS106 random gif api, a rather daft piece of fun: 106 drop in » Blog Archive » Gif Scraping and a DS106 Gif API. The api seems to be working well and I’ve used it on DS106 GiF TV which is still a work in […]

Riffing off this: Educator, Learner | Animate (SOME) of the GIFs! – Educator, Learner And recalling this: Not an animated gif Click Jim to toggle the animation. I’ve piut this in Mozilla Thimble if you want to remix or look at code: toggle sprite.

There is an interesting conversation going on over in the DS106 google group. Sandy Brown Jensen makes some great points which finish with So for me it has nothing to do with the aesthetics of the gif itself and more to do with crafting a context where placing a gif makes sense. .Sandy has a […]

It started, as so many things do, with a tweet(bark?) from CogDog linking to The Best of ds106 GIF TV. This got me thinking of how to automate the gathering of gifs. I remembered that I had done some gif scraping a while back: Doug’s Gifs. I wondered about scrapping tumblr in the same manner […]

I’ve been having quite a lot of fun with animated gifs recently. Mariana Funes @mdvfunes posted a method developed by Michael B Smith for making gifs from fast cut bit of video. Mariana’s post: The Altered State Gif Technique gives the details. I’ve been doing some experimenting around this. First I just googled fast cut […]

Yesterday’s Daily Create looked interesting: Exploration video. Maybe you’re exploring a new land, the depths of quarks, outer space, the mind, the soul, etc. Given the excessive rain, I started thinking about exploring the mind, vaguely thinking of some sort of psychedelic movie, or even La Belle et la Bête which I’ve grabbed more than […]

You will need to click on the thumbs to see the action. A few gifs for the 1840s GIF party: call for submissions | Tate. I’ve already posted them on Tumblr, but thought I’d add them here. See the previous post for more details.

I’ve come across a couple of interesting projects this week involving animated gifs. 1840s GIF party: call for submissions | Tate and The GIF the Portrait Project. So far I’ve giffed a few images from the the Take 1840 exhibition. I then to find animating gifs as an end in itself, it is interesting that […]

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A the end (or endless end) of the headless ds106 course, Mariana published a wonderful reflection on her tumblr DS106 in 106 posts and 106 bullets published at 1:06. Mariana and I have been musing on a collaborative project based on the list. As she commented on her own post: * An exclusive Radio Show […]