In the next scene of this film, freely available on the internet archive, our young coeds encounter two disoriented Civil War soldiers who’ve wound up in 1960′s rural America because of a malfunctioning time machine. Gunplay ensues. The boy winds up in hospital and the girl vanishes. …
A couple of days ago it seemed there wouldn’t be a next episode of scottlo calling. It felt as if there was nothing left to talk about. And then curious things began to happen.
First there was a blog post from Radio Errols about receiving a recent news …
It didn’t take John long to figure out which film the previous animated GIF came from in his comment on the previous post: Pump up the Volume. He, MBS and Dr. Jones will all be entered into the drawing for a bag of sweets from the nougat …
I’d been spending some time thinking about radio and audio experimentation even before the recent radio purchases that have been mentioned in previous posts. But the imagination was really sparked weeks earlier when I watched the movie from which the animated GIF above was pulled. I …
I was able to find some time to do a set on ds106 radio today which consisted of playing some local Saudi fm radio I’d recorded earlier. Though if seemed to be a wee bit of a lark as I prepped for the show, …
This fourth and final installment of The Pro from Dover is part of an audio project that began in July. The three previous recordings were all released on The Overnightscape Underground. At the time there was a reason for not posting the audio through the Scottlo Radio Blog but …
The kitchen experiments continue with relish. I’m so fortunate to have a mother is an enthusiastic and awesome cook. She and I have enjoyed frequent menu consultations over the Skype in recent days. When I complained of never again wanting to see another grain of rice, she suggested I try …
After a few days in the compound, I decided to move into an apartment building where a couple of colleagues who’ve also recently arrived are staying. The building is on a broad boulevard lined with the street lamps pictured above. Their sleek design and sharp tips have repeatedly grabbed my …
It just occurred to me that this coming Monday will mark one month since my arrival in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It seems like forever since I spent three days in the decrepit and mysterious compound pictured above.
My intention upon leaving Japan back in July was to use …
While getting ready to make my way for the airport on my final day in Japan, it seems there’s just time enough for one more animated GIF. The clip above is from an elaborate song and dance number from W.C. Fields’ International House. The musical number, from which this …
Recent excursions into Hollywood and pop-culture history have made me realize that there’s a lot of awesome stuff out there that I’d never even knew existed. When I leave Japan next week for a few weeks of R & R before heading to the next chapter, I plan on looking …
I continue to slowly work my way through the four plus hour Northwest Passage fanedit version of Twin Peaks in search of GIF-able sequences. The GIFed scene above is from Dr. Jacoby leaves Conference Room A after a curious conversation with Special Agent Cooper and Sheriff Truman …
As mentioned in an earlier tutorial on assembling animated GIFs, I use MPEG StreamClip to select the clip’s start and end points. The selection is then trimmed and the frames are exported as individual png files. It is these individual image files that are then …
Watching the four plus hour Northwest Passage fanedit of Twin Peaks brought back a bunch of memories. The video claims to be distillation of the mystery surrounding Laura Palmer’s murder. I suppose it works on that level but frankly, I was never much interested in the plot line …
At the outset of episode 7 of the Totally Fun and Good podcast, which is currently in production, I mentioned that I’d just submitted an application with iTunes and set up a Feedburner account for the podcast. The recording was made last Thursday and since then the application has been …
It was the chance discovery of a sixty-year-old radio show while researching for the last podcast that led me to discover these clips of Ray Bolger dancing with a couple of dead presidents. At the end of Ray Bolger’s segment on the Doris Day Radio Show he says that he …
I watched many Ray Bolger clips on YouTube while doing research for the last podcast. Several amazing scenes of him dancing have been downloaded and are in the queue to be assembled into animated GIF form. But when I came across Ray’s 1963 appearance on CBS’s The Judy Garland Show…
It almost doesn’t seem fair to be able to have as much fun as I did in assembling this episode. Those who are curious about my current work flow might be interested to hear an extended discussion of my current podcasting process. The three audio applications referred are Hindenburg, …
Every once in a while, while writing a blog post, all of the text disappears. It happened to a student during one of my classes this week. The same thing seems to have just happened here. For both the student and me, it happened while typing the undo keystroke sequence.…
With only three weeks of dependable internet access available and a bushel & peck of digital dreams to make come true, there just isn’t time to give a proper write-up to the GIF above. This thing is so loaded with potential but I just can’t figure out which way to …
Having spent the better part of a Sunday trying to figure out how to move around and build in Facebook’s recent 3D virtual world application Cloud Party, I still have no idea what to make of it. I learned about Cloud Party earlier this week through the Second Life Educators …
As mentioned in the latest Totally Fun and Good Podcast episode, I plan on developing the skills to become a song and dance man in the months ahead. Like the proverb says, “If you can walk you can dance, if can talk you can sing.” In this and subsequent …
