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#tdc2034 Today be on the lookout for your one tree! Prerequisites, you need ffmpeg installed. I did that with Homebrew . In Photos app. search from Tree, this works pretty well. Export all the photos to a folder. You need to rename all the photos to be sequential, 0001.jpg, 0002.jpg etc. So open the terminal … Continue reading "#tdc2034"

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I think some pictures seem to make less sense than text. #ds106 #tdc1974 #tdc30day 60000 random points pic.twitter.com/czhqHtzZzc — john johnston (@johnjohnston) June 5, 2017 Got out my minimal processing skills for this one. there are 60000 d...

The #DS106 June 30 Day Daily Create Challenge I am collecting my entries. I can highly recommend this to get rid of end of term stress.

  Alan knows what I like: My hunch is @johnjohnston will have fun with this command line audio thing https://t.co/0xRDXRzZOl — Alan Levine (@cogdog) April 18, 2017 Which leads me to robertfoss/audio_shop: Your friendly neighbourhood script for mangling images using audio editing tools This turns out to be a much quicker way of databending than … Continue reading "Photo Bending with Audio Shop"

#Ds106 GoodSpell Final Season ep 8 Letting go Bullet 107! The End! For the last episode of the DS106 Good Spell Mariana and I were joined by Jim Groom and Ronald Leunissen. Since The DS106 Good Spell Episode 1, Marina & I have been talking DS106 0n Sunday Evenings, covering her mammoth post: DS106 in 106 posts and 106 … Continue reading "End of a Good Spell"

A while back I did the daily create for 6 January 2014 Create a Self Portrait Cubomania Style. And knowced up a couple of quick web pages to make cubomania images and gif. The other day I was messing about with some web pages inspired by the Universe app and was reminded of the cubomania … Continue reading "Cubomania revisited"

One of the best things about DS106 is the riffing and playing with other participants. I dipped my toe in the daily create stream yesterday and pulled out a great example: #ds106 reply to me w/ tag #tdc1713 Get Your Mozart On: Compose an Imaginary Musical… https://t.co/n3URHLTgmm pic.twitter.com/THooCVsQK7 — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) September 16, … Continue reading "This is #DS106"

This evening Marianna & I started the final season of the DS106 Good Spell on DS106 Radio. The DS106 Good Spell is a podcast about the open online course on digital storytelling, DS106. Some background to this series on The DS106 Good Spell Episode 0 As usual I’ll post the audio to edutalk.cc One of my favourite … Continue reading "#DS106 GoodSpell Final Season"

I’ve covered most of this before, but given the news that someone reads this stuff, I though I’d document it a bit more. Prerequisites: ffmpeg, imagemagick, gifsicle, I’ve installed all of these commandline apps via Homebrew. Cartoon Fred’s ImageMagick Scripts: CARTOON. I downloaded this then made it executable using the terminal: chmode +x cartoon I … Continue reading "Commandline gifs: Cartoon The Nitty Gritty"

@cogdog lovely stuffI didn't recognise/recall word but got a phenakistiscope here. I think @jimgroom has one too pic.twitter.com/40UQfNr6Ms — john johnston (@johnjohnston) June 25, 2016 The linked site: phenakistiscope de bal | Succursale | Ruppert & Mulot is indeed lovely. It uses Flash. This got me thinking a wee bit about CSS animations. CSS phenakistiscope … Continue reading "CSS phenakistiscope"

As usual it started with a tweet: @mdvfunes @phb256 @johnjohnston So this would be an excellent example of #ds106 SPLOT, port to a web version and bam https://t.co/sPUgFVKqIT — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) June 30, 2016 The referenced tweet looked interesting: RT for the early birds… https://t.co/OAXUuDbgY7 — Cartoon Brew (@cartoonbrew) June 29, 2016 I’ve tried … Continue reading "This ain’t no Rotoscope"

In the past I’ve made a few experiments with randomly layering and combining images: Glen Finlas -evaluate-sequence subtract and Averages (The Prisoner) for example. A couple of weeks ago I started playing with combining images in the browser. There are several ways to go about this, I found a nice script to blend two images … Continue reading "Accidental Allure"

It started with a tweet: Here is a new, awesome take on @reclaimhosting‘s logo–a GIF! @BryanMMathers you rule! pic.twitter.com/d4U2ZyYsac — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) April 22, 2016 Then Alan: Spinning Albums from Reclaim Records made this: Which was asking for a gif: This was a little quick and dirty, it used my original Dancing Jim from … Continue reading "Record Riffing"

First Daily in a while, so though it was worth a quick post. #tdc1547 Make a Van Gogh – Make him go for DS106 | The (new) Daily Create The original DS106 image from DS106: The Open Online Community of Digital Storytellers by Jim Groom — Kickstarter Not sure who to credit as Google didn’t … Continue reading "#tdc1547 Van Gogh goes #DS106"

We see a deluge of media dumped into twitter, Facebook, tumblr with no context. Fwooooooooooom it goes, down the stream, with no context. Wheeeeeee. Too bad, because I think you are missing out if you are not narrating your work. from: The Good, The Bad, and The Puppy (and some pondering on Making / Making … Continue reading "A Short Intermission"

I’ve not been keeping up with #western106 much other than a couple of artonthecouch posts. But I have done the odd Daily Create. I am noting them here as some sort of record before they are lost in twitter. The 4th February: #ds106#dailycreate#tdc1488 Create an Oregon Trail Game Screen for DS106 A quick google for … Continue reading "Along the Daily Trail"

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One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. ― Charles Baudelaire I find gifs intoxicating, not the looking at them but creating. This is ridiculous. I find sitting down to rip a gif out of a movie and crush … Continue reading "Drunken Gifs"

I did manage a couple of daily creates this week but my hold on the ds106 stream is pretty tenuous. Given the public commitment to Art on the Couch last week both here an on The DS106 Good Spell I clicked the random button a few time this morning until I got my first visual … Continue reading "Lazy Art on the Couch"

Last week on the first #DS106 GoodSpell of the year Mariana and I talked about her DS106 Art on the couch idea. Simply this is a way of looking at someone else work in DS106 and thinking about it in a bit more depth. Critique is often most instructive for the person offering it. In … Continue reading "My Way To The West"

I’ve had a bit of difficulty getting time to watch any westerns. I decided to have a listen instead. I headed over to the Old Time Radio on Internet Archive and had a dig around, I spotted Gunsmoke – Single Episodes where there are 473 files. I have heard of the show but knew nothing … Continue reading "Greenhorn Mistake"

I’ve signed on as a hand to ride the Western 106 trail. Seems like it hard to quit DS106. Although I’ve been on this trail afore I’ve never been as far west. I ain’t much of a cowhand. I am more of a blanket stiff, a bit of a moss-back when it comes to the … Continue reading "Saddling Up"

With 3 unsatisfactory draft post sittin’ in the chuck waggon. I am delighted to have to the opportunity to boil some coffee, sit back and shoot my mouth off. Or rather shoot this gif out from the hip: If I have to justify this in terms of DS106 I refer to a bit of char … Continue reading "Gif Switchback"

Yesterday I read a great post on open which included this point: Focusing on simple cost-benefit analysis models neglects the creative, fun and serendipitous aspects of openness and, ultimately, this is what keeps us learning. The Cost of Freedom – The Open World | Open World and noticed in Lorna’s twitter stream: Very interesting collection, … Continue reading "Giffing the open range"

When I heard about #western106 I was looking forward to messing about as an outrider to the main herd, have a bit of fun, running the odd gif down and perhaps have a few campfire podcasts, nothing to heavy. I’d not watched cowboy movies much recently and associate them with my father whom I watched […]

Today’s daily create: #tdc1457 Do Some Research on Spaghetti Westerns | The (new) Daily Create I followed a wandering trail picking up some links on the way: Spaghetti Western – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Quick and the Dead (Film) – TV Tropes 725 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns | Open Culture […]