Illustration by Christina Hendricks.  Community: the condition of sharing or having certain...

johnjohnston:

jimgroom:

"Create 3D gifs by adding 2 lines."

http://www.bspcn.com/2014/02/06/create-3d-gifs-by-adding-2-lines/

Have to try this…

Me to

me too too

Thank you Jonathan Worth for directing me to this. A favourite few words, remixed in a wonderful short video. The gap between my taste and my ambitions is bound to be big initially - Ira tells us.

Branches of 21st century skills illustration. Sometimes you come across work that is clearly a labour of love - combining useful ideas with a gift for art. I love this.

Well, I had to get back on the animated gif horse!

I chickened out of the Tate submissions as I fear I am just not good enough to enter. I failed splendidly at not being scared. 

Then I saw this,

#ds106 Just published “Kau’ai from a Blue Hawaiian Helicopter ” on @storehousehq: http://t.co/g4FzIUBFwy This app rocks!

— Sandy Brown Jensen (@sandramardene)

February 2, 2014

and as Sandy has mixed feeling about gifs Alan Levine joked with her in relation to the video that opens her amazing adventure from a Blue Hawaiian Helicopter:

@sandramardene That is quite lovely! And (ahem) that helicopter seems to (cough) animate in some sort of (ahem) loop l-)

— Alan Levine (@cogdog)

February 2, 2014

It is worth reading the whole conversation which ends with me jumping and saying:

@cogdog @sandramardene I will make it into a gif, but wait it already is a…. you did it! made your first…. :-) what colours. wow.

— Mariana Funes (@mdvfunes)

February 2, 2014

I could not resist. The helicopter video was begging to be giffed. I downloaded, Mpeg Streamclipped it to pick my ‘moment’, then Gimped it as I like to do basic editing on there first, Photoshopped it - learnt about Tweening to get the helicopter to emerge from the mist and played with various other filters. I added the watermark ‘Gif is art’ alluding to John Johnston’s post about the the other day. There is much I would do to make it better, but not tonight. Thank you Sandy for getting me making art today - I have been too lost in meta-talk and not enough doing!

I need to show my hand and say that my favourite of all the Tate’s Gif submissions is the one the one with the skeleton, of the ones I have seen from us here in DS106…I love them all! We will win, one of us will win….

I noticed this weekend that I have been distracted. As I got involved in the ‘un-course’...

And here is the link to watch it at the Zeega site. I am told that anyone can remix - tool is new...

It has been a roller coaster. I will be unpacking the experience for many moons to come....

As this run of DS106 comes to an end, I am starting to reflect on what the experience has meant...

ds-ina:

This is a guest post by the boy ghost in the image above, who has chosen to remain anonymous.

I am so thrilled about my beta test of the GIFaChrome camera! I was able to get a version of the camera from my friend Ina, and she kindly agreed to take an image of me that shows my real nature. If you hover over the right side of the image above you can see an arrow pointing to the old image Ina took of me, a boring old still image. It does me no justice, as you can tell when comparing it to my GIFaChrome image. Whoever heard of a ghost that doesn’t glow and move?

This camera is so easy to use: all you do is point and click and a beautiful animated gif appears. It’s like magic! You don’t even have to have full material substance to work the thing, as I have been able to play around with it myself (though I still need practice, and this pic by Ina is the best image so far). 

The only thing that is missing from the GAC image is my lovely “booooooo-oooooooo-oooooo” sound that I tend to make when floating in this way. But those people over at GIFaChrome are so clever, I expect this will be available in a software update soon!

The GIFaChrome launches December 13, 2013. To pre-order yours, go to the GIFaChrome website!

Yes! I hear they have John Johnston the Chief engineer working on adding sound to animated gifs. I think it will definitely allow you to add the boooo hook sound to your lovely image. Although I think initially it will not play automatically but you will have to click on the image before it plays. See this test image: http://johnjohnston.info/106/simple-glitch-update/

I am sleepy and DS106ed out. But when you have to do something you have to do something. I Just saw...

GIFaChrome unveils a world first: Their first cross-species endorsement for their Gifachrome camera. 

I wanted to do a film like this with my favourite gifs from headless 13. I came across this one from PBS early on DS106. On watching it again at the end, I notice a reference to glitch art. An example of how much we miss as we keep looking for more and new…It took me until nearly the end to ‘discover’ glitch art but I could have discovered it at the beginning had I paid attention to this film when I watched it. 

As the last week of DS106 approaches I am reminded of a post by Seth Goodman that was one of the first I read from him and one that made me stop and pay attention. It was called Documenting Learning: He gently argues that the act of completion is evid...

"Our data is the new flesh. The screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. The battle for the global mind will be fought on the internet. The network is reality and reality is less than the network. Listen to the voice inside you and make today the day you take back control. Thank you."

We worship at the altar of Google and Apple. Facebook algorithms know us better than our parents. A book I must read Machine Dreams analyses my favourite science fact series Black Mirror.

A quote from The Guardian expresses the push-pull I feel about DS106 as it concludes this week:

This area – between delight and discomfort – is where Black Mirror, my new drama series, is set. The “black mirror” of the title is the one you’ll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.

Photo quote from: http://www.endemoluk.com/programme/black-mirror

A digital practice to challenge rigidly held views, opinions and feelings that need reminding about anatta. 

As I read somewhere in the interwebz recently. Old ideas rehashed, thank god. Seth Goodman posted this in Google plus and, although it has a date of 1977, it makes a point timeless point.

I made a sound cloud on a public domain poem called The Key to the kingdom which spoke to the same themes 

The first official radio commercial for the GIFaChrome camera

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A review by Colin the Dog  yes, I bought a GAC camera! As a busy dog around the countryside, I...

Good Bye #DS106 Headless 13, hello DS106 #4life