I’ve taken a little break from yesterday’s GIF (it’s a little bit busy here) but thought I’d take a few minutes to work on this little pursuit GIF from the same film, a scene where THX1138 (played by Robert Duvall) flees the motor-bike riding Chrome Faced Officers — THX 1138 has a fancy car that ...

These are workable looping GIFs that are portions of what I hope will be a more complete GIF. This poor Chrome-face robot officer from THX1138 is having problems dancing with the wall. Due to a slight adjustment of the camera angle during filming, Chrome-face’s feet aren’t fully visible at the beginning of the shot, but ...

I’m suddenly tempted to go deep, and speak of motivation, engagement, self-directed learning, motion and agency, purpose, creativity and community, but I’ll just let those words float there and share this: Find out more about The @scottlo Driveby Show, and how to listen and participate.

In what promises to be yet another wonderful ‘slice of life’ internet production, our friend-in-the-field, Scott Lo (@scottlo), has launched (at 6000 RPMs!) The Driveby Show. ‘Casting early in the morning from his considerately time-shifted home base of Saudi Arabia, after a bowl of his favourite Grape Nuts cereal, Scott begins his day with his ...

I don’t have time to sort this out now. Sorry.  And you should know that this post is on its THIRD title. I changed the title post from its FIRST title: Can #%^&*@ You @%$#^*& Now ??? to the second title: Can (as in Terminate) You Now and from that to the current title because my ...

I can’t pretend that I fully understand the deeper nuances of Jim Groom’s new Animated GIF assignment 972, “At Least It’s an Ethos,” (“…so Walter Sobchack is referring to Nihilism in the scene we are quoting when defining National Socialism as an ethos, my idea for this (now convoluted) assignment ….“) but I figured that ...

The Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) will be hosting its 2013 annual conference this year in Niagara Falls, Ontario, October 23rd-25th. It will be a blast!! In working up a logo for the event, somehow an animated GIF crept into my visualization process. Can you imagine? Somehow, my imagination has a series in the ...

I’m uploading the moving target version of the ds106radio Listen page (formerly know as the ds106rad.io Can You Hear Me Now Browser Player experiment) to http://ds106rad.io/listen/ and for the time being will point the Feedback? link here. the “MiniPlayer” option is still to be implemented. For those wanting to listen in their browser, this will ...

Metaphor One: Kung Fu Back in the previous millennium (before they had their own short-lived series, and before that other momentarily topical and slightly longer running spin-off ), I used to really enjoy whenever The Lone Gunmen showed up on The X-files. Whereas Mulder and Scully were the often serious FBI suits that ran around ...

The Lyric Typographic Poster design assignment asks that you choose one of your favorite lines from a song and illustrate it using only typography. “Consider how the font, color, sizes and placement of the typography can reflect or emphasize the meaning of the words.” I’ve been meaning to use this lyric for the Lyric Typographic ...

Perhaps you can come up with a better story than I have?   Jabiz Raisdana (@intrepidteacher) tweeted out a picture of this doll sitting on the wicker chair in the sun back on January 30th. At the time, the doll looked spooky and looked GIFable. I asked Jabiz for a few more pictures, and, despite ...

Another ds106 assignment for Design Week is the ds106 Propaganda Poster: Create a propaganda poster for ds106. Use your photo editing software of choice and write a message to inspire your fellow ds106ers. If you don’t know Alan Levine (and many of you must, if you are reading this via the ds106 stream), then you ...

Prologue Now I have known for years that two-bits is a quarter, and four bits is fifty cents. In fact, use of the word bits in currency terms had all but stopped before I was born, because I remember asking “what does two-bits mean?” when I heard my parents and aunts and uncles using the ...

Submitted in response to the ds106 Design Assignment 950, “A Memorial For Fairuz’s PC.” I decided to create a generic tribute to all the great workhorse computers of all ds106 artists — at some point, some day, your trusty computer will say, “I am done,” and it too, will take its place, in the Smithsonianary ...

Thursday evening I undertook my first official, as-defined-by-ds106 photoblitz. With a time constraint of twenty minutes, only the immediately available surroundings as subject, and a randomly generated set of seven prompts for focus, I took 38 photos, and from those, selected seven to share (plus the two bracketing start/stop time photos). The images were photographed ...

On January 14th, 2013, The Daily Create 372 asked for a photo “of your favorite place to work (desk, comfy chair, etc.),” and this was the image that I envisioned, my work space at home where I do the bulk of my ds106 stuff. It took a while to implement the idea. but here it ...

The answer is definitely yes. People can hear you sing. Just released today. Just in case you haven’t seen and heard it yet. Or in case want to see it again. (You do!) Chris Hadfield (@cmdr_Hadfield), Canadian astronaut with guitar, and Ed Robertson (@barenakedladies), together with the Wexford Gleeks, a youth choir from the Wexford ...

I’ve long been a fan of This is That, a radio program produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). If you have not yet heard it, or heard of it, I highly recommend it to your attention. My introduction to the show (on two separate occasions) came while driving in the car — and in ...

Imagined and Annotated Animated GIF Story of The Jim Groom Animated GIF #etMOOC Special Sometimes storytellers need to augment the bare bones of a story to provide the audience with more details and information to get the full nuances of a story. If you’ve seen the Raw and Uncut version of the Jim Groom Animated ...

Raw Captures from The Jim Groom Animated GIF #etMOOC Special For those who were unable to attend the January 5th #etMOOC streamed special on dtlt last night, or for those who did attend but suffered with some bandwidth woes like I did, the first part of the show on Animated GIFs looked and sounded something ...

Five Card Story: Apple Store Vatican a Five Card Flickr story created by @aforgrave flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by Serenae flickr photo by bionicteaching flickr photo by bionicteaching Misty memories of childhood, Early morning fog in Lucerne, on lake and trees, No lion around all day, rather Especially selected ...

This is one of my favourite moments from Rob Reiner’s classic, The Princess Bride, released in 1987. It comes right at the end, in an incredibly touching scene, when the Grandfather (wonderfully played by the late Peter Falk), uncomfortable with what to say as he is leaving, fumbles to make sure he has everything (is ...

Sometimes, less is more. Sometimes, the first photo of the day is the best. As animated GIFs go, this one had the potential to be the easiest, it-fell-right-into-my-lap-and-it-was-done GIF. But No. I remembered Alan Levine‘s Animated GIF Assignment 857 “All Aboard the GIF Train” earlier this week, and made a quick attempt to grab a ...

This animated GIF update to Andrew Allingham‘s original logo seemed just another example of one of those thing that just suddenly jumped out as needing to be GIFfed, by hopefully paying homage to the original, and promoting the slight change to the new. Things will be the same, but updated. And I’m so happy that ...

In celebration of the station’s 2 year broadcasting anniversary, fearless ds106radio leader Grant Potter has given ds106rad.io a new v.2 station management interface, and a fancy new URL to go along — tune in at ds106rad.io I’ve been wondering about that new URL. Not only is it functional and easy to remember, it’s brilliant! But ...

Watch your step on the sidewalk of yesteryear’s Information Highway I’m 99.9% convinced that the first time I saw and recognized an animated gif for what it was, it was something very much like one of these:   Maybe you have similar memories?  (Hopefully they are not PTSD-induced flashbacks!)  Clearly the image of website construction was ...

Another Daily Create which just had to be done. I like it when the Daily Create evokes an idea or an inspiration that just grabs hold and won’t let go until it is done. In case you should be interested, but don’t have quite the enthusiasm necessary to rekey from the GIF (I’m thinking of ...

Just prior to dinner this evening, Jared Nichol (@mrnichol) and I had a pleasant exchange on Twitter, prompted by the delivery of a Flipbookit animation device at his place this weekend: The video immediately got me thinking about Eadweard Muybridge, the historic photographer who captured the original images in the 1870 that formed the basis for ...

A poorly developed film negative (see above) resulted in this scene being edited out of the final cut of the third film in Julia Child’s “Le Chef de la mort” action trilogy, “Reçette Pas Nécessaire.” You can get some sense of the original drama in this animated GIF assembled from the ONLY two frames that could ...

On Wednesday, January 23rd, the prompt for The Daily Create was just too good to ignore. Ideas started flowing even before I went seeking an image to use for the assignment. tdc381 – Design a poster of an action movie starring Julia Child. (!!!) See — how could you not want to try that? This ...