1. John Johnston

    Levelling up to the LoDown

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    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 ...
  2. John Johnston

    More than one way to frame a gif

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        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 ...
  3. John Johnston

    QuickTime for a Smoke

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    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 ...
  4. John Johnston

    Jim Says, Listen to the LoDown

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    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 ...
  5. John Johnston

    DS106Zone Week 1

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    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 ...
  6. John Johnston

    Roots for Riffing

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    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 ...
  7. John Johnston

    Trapped in the Zone

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    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. John Johnston

    8 Gifs in search of a title

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    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 ...
  9. John Johnston

    Once you are on the DS106 Train

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    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 ...
  10. John Johnston

    Ripping up a Shredder Head

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    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 ...
  11. Mike Berta

    Recording Google Hangout Audio

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    There have been times in the last few weeks where I needed to record the audio of conversations that were taking place via Google Hangouts. This isn’t a frequent or even common task but the nature of my research requires me to record interviews. Some of those interviews are taking place via video conference. Considering..
  12. John Johnston

    Dancing Jim Over the World

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    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) ...
  13. John Johnston

    5 Sound Stories a toy for #ds106

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    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 ...
  14. John Johnston

    Not an animated gif

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    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 ...
  15. John Johnston

    Storyboard and Gifboard

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    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 ...
  16. John Johnston

    The Big Steal

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    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 ...
  17. John Johnston

    Beat Gif

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    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 ...
  18. John Johnston

    5 from 39

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    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 ...
  19. John Johnston

    FlickrSounds Revisited

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    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 ...
  20. John Johnston

    Sounds Like a Train

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    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 ...
  21. John Johnston

    Train to Anywhere

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    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 ...

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