By: 106 drop in » Blog Archive » Levelling up to the LoDown
... week, but not in the same zone as DS106. Last time round at Camp Magic MacGuffin I really enjoyed working on the group audio task which I didn’t expect given its subject ...
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Levelling up to the LoDown
I made a quick recording in response to ds106zone LoDown 019. Scott played a section on ds106zone LoDown 020. Recording made in garageband on iphone, I sent Scott the audio with the large room preset. This one is reset to dry so less echo. As I say, I’ve missed ds106 for the last week, being ... -
More than one way to frame a gif
I’ve done a fair number of Multi-Frame GIF Story Assignments and I really like them. One thing I do not like is having to have each animation at the same rate and with the same number of frames. You can work round this by ‘freeze’ framing a particular frame or several frames, but ... -
QuickTime for a Smoke
This is not a gif assignment. qt_tools is a set of commandline tools for Mac that manipulate quicktime movies. One of the tools is qt_proofsheet: QT_PROOFSHEET will take a QuickTime movie and render it out as individual frames in a grid. By default, it takes about 100 frames of your movie and fits it onto ... -
Jim Says, Listen to the LoDown
Listened to a couple of the excellent ds106LoDown podcast on the scottlo radio blog this afternoon. I was delighted that a radio bumper of mine was plated as an example on ds106zone LoDown 009 apart from Scott’s usual wonderful voice and engaging content he is embedding some great audio information in the lodown podcasts. So ... -
By: 106 drop in » Blog Archive » DS106Zone Week 1
... or two. Somewhat bladerunner I think. I iterated this a bit more int oa gif for my first assignment Trapped in the Zone which is probably a better idea that it ... -
DS106Zone Week 1
I am slightly late with this weekly review and it will be short on thinking. I had got a couple of posts under my belt before the official start date so was feeling fairly smug. I am also listed as a true friend of Talky Tina which brings a certain amount of responsibility, I don’t want ... -
Roots for Riffing
DS106 seems to have got off to a roaring start, perhaps it is the compressed 5 week course but it is impossible to keep up with the flow. The 24 folk at UMW have turned out 127 posts at time of writing! This is wonderful, not only for just enjoying the flow of ideas but ... -
Trapped in the Zone
A quick gif after yesterday’s daily create. I am looking at you #DS106 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!. I think this one hits Talky Tina’s ds106 Assignments: From the Twilight Zone, and Beyond … assignments. I also think a much better job could have been done with the levels if I know a bit more ... -
8 Gifs in search of a title
So I am trying to get an idea of the twilight zone before the next round of DS106 starts. It looks like you can watch any of the first 3 seasons on The Twilight Zone Video CBS.com if you live in the USA. I may have to investigate some sort of fake us ip device ... -
Once you are on the DS106 Train
A new chapter of ds106 is starting. ds106zone is an idea Dr. Garcia had about framing the Summer session around a Twilight Zone inspired thematic from: bavatuesdays | a “b” blog I’ve not idea about the twilight zone, well off my culture radar, so I am speed reading wikipedia and it looks like I’ll need ... -
Ripping up a Shredder Head
So a new rather interesting DS106 assignments, For The Remix! A series of photographs taken by Jonathan Worth of author Cory Doctorow are now available for you to remix, regenerate, and to make new art, especially in light of the themes and topics of his books. The deal seems to be you should think deeply, share your idea and processes. More ... -
Dancing Jim Over the World
Last night a old gif of mine got tweeted: Talk about premonition! @johnjohnston depicted scene at #innovateOSU by @jimgroom more than a year ago! johnjohnston.info/106/jims-excel… #ds106 — Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) March 28, 2013 and I replied: @techsavvyed somewhere I’ve got an @jimgroom dancing action figure gif that can be placed anywhere;) — john johnston (@johnjohnston) ... -
5 Sound Stories a toy for #ds106
I’ve been working on a version of Alan Levine’s Five Card Flickr for audio rather than images. Very much a work in progress. Only tested on a mac (FF, Safari & chrome) and Windows 7 (IE9), no support for iOS (limitation of how iOS plays audio and my lack of knowhow). 5 Sound Stories I’d appreciate ... -
Not an animated gif
Using this png and CSS sprites. Copying CSS sprite sheet animation – jsFiddle Using my much reused favourite (of the ones I’ve made) animated gif. I converted it to a long strip. So the CSS without the vendor prefixes .jg { margin:auto; width: 203px; height: 203px; background-image: url("jgsprites.png"); animation: play 1.5s steps(9) infinite; } @-webkit-keyframes ... -
Storyboard and Gifboard
I saw a link from somewhere in my RSS reader, probably hacker news, to Storyboard: Read your TV and Movies.. Storyboard creates pdfs from movies with subtitles, one page per subtitle. Storyboard transforms your videos into other types of media. Make a GIF of a favorite joke from a TV show, or make a book ... -
The Big Steal
More BBC inspired giffing. nice to see some B&W back on the box. The Big Steal – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia described as a noir/comedy staring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer is great stuff. I just marched through the movie grabbing some sections with Movie2Gif – John’s World Wide Wall Display doing a little extra ... -
Beat Gif
Wandering round youtube I found Jack Kerouac (rare footage) / Cat Power – Good Woman – YouTube. Most of the Kerouac I’ve seen have been chat show footage with a drunk Kerouac. This clip shows his gentler side. Unfortunately to get the gif file size down I had to crush it hard. Playflow: Downloaded the ... -
5 from 39
Enjoyed the original 39 steps on the TV the other night. Some giffable moments: I just skimmed through a downloaded version in Movie2Gif and exported a few gifs. One or two I edited a wee bit in fireworks. Most of the DS106 croud seem to use GIMP or photoshop for ... -
By: John
Thanks for the continued interest:) The easiest way to get them all the same size is to just keep clicking until you get some the ratio. I am just grabbing the medium size that Flickr supplies at the moment. <s>I guess once an image is dropped into the list I could filter the subsequent searches by only showing if they have same ratio. Might be very limiting given this is a pretty crude tool and only grabs 200 photos for a word, might slow things down a bit? Or have the images in the final show 'crop' to the smallest size, letter boxing the biggest. Food for thought. The jumping about is certainly off putting at the moment. </s> <strong>I've updated the code to either align the images or to 'letterbox' them. I'll update the post in a while.</strong> As to adding audio to gifs the same sort of process would work. Scrip to show a static image would swap out for a gif when clicked and then play a sound (gif and audio preloaded). The wonderful thing about freesound.org is that they provide both mp3 and of versions of uploaded files making playing the audio on most modern browsers easy. -
By: Ben
Oh man, thanks for bringing this nifty little tool back to mind! I'm not sure why I didn't explore it further (most likely the end of the school year), but it's still a great way to mix media and play with images and sound. Just yesterday I was lamenting the fact that the GIF file format doesn't support sound, and today you've shown me a fantastic proof of concept of exactly what I was imagining! Is there a way to select only images that have the same size to improve the appearance of the animation? -
FlickrSounds Revisited
Or have a look by clicking this image: Following on from my last post, I’ve paused in animating gifs when I started thinking of the sounds of gifs, this is not quite adding sounds to gifs but making image slide shows with sounds. Made with a new version of flickrSounds, very much in progress. The ... -
Sounds Like a Train
Alan’s challenge Step it up a notch and match your train gif to a song using http://gifsound.com reminded me of flickrSounds, so I made a wee train quote with pictures and sound, much to my surprise I found a train for for this and train sounds for bound. Back to giffing soon. this by Abhinav ... -
By: Alan Levine
Wow that train gets around! In the second GIF it is going so fast it's elevated, soaring over buildings. But it's the big Scottish moon shot I like best. Great idea to make it a green screen, the trsin can now go anywhere -
Train to Anywhere
I am getting on The GIF Train and Riffing a GIF working off Alan’s The Faultless Feed (GIF) Train. going for the quick and dirty rather than any precision train engineering. Taking the CogDog Express across Scotland, Over Glasgow: And over the moon: Here is a greenscreen train, if anyone wants to take ... -
Giffing Around
It is the ds106 GIFfest. This one might fit ds106 Assignments: I’ll Love You Forever. From La Dolce Vita and while I am at it: -
Spinning some Gifs
Jim Groom and Scottlo pointed out Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012: ‘to GIF’. This got me watching a few old clips and movies looking for something to gif. Last night we were watching tv, a documentary about singles, with lots of archive clips with a fair bit of gif potential. I’ve run ... -
The DS106 Basement
Recycle The Media — MISSION: DS106 using media from http://minus.com/mvKXzhhcO mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types. Looking at the ds106 phonar recycle bin my eye was caught by a lot of bars, and I started thinking of being in a ... -
Still Digging
So this morning before heading to work I checked the daily create, it says:Spend the day taking photos only in black and white. Post a collage or your best one. I’ve not been to inspired by the daily creates of late, but this looked like a good one. Nothing to do with the quality of tdc, ... -
By: 106 drop in » Blog Archive » Hitching a Lift on the DS106 Express
... Interestingly and probably obviously the pice I enjoyed most was the exercise that I initially disliked even the idea of, the one that involved most group participation and went deepest into story telling: Impending Zombie Apocalypse ...
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