1. cogdog

    Cory Greenspan / Alan Doctorow ? The CAPTCHA Did it!

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    cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine For today’s ds106 Daily Create, Got CAPTCHArt? the challenge was to make some art out of those crazy “prove you are a human” devices. Captchas are not quite as easy to find any more with interesting words. I have some in my flickr from the grand old days when you got real jumbled words, and sometimes freaky combinations, including this unlikely combination of names cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine I wonder what happens when one puts Cory Doctorow with Alan Greenspan? I used the portrait of Doctorow in his office that Jonathan Worth made available (creative commons) in the For the Remix project. Wikipedia has a public domain portrait of Greenspan, at a very similar pose- in front of bookshelves. Eerie. I brought both into Photoshop and resized Greenspan to overlap […]
  2. rockylou22

    20 Steps Til He!! Freezes Over

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    20 Steps til He!! Freezes Over At least that’s all it takes in Minnesota this year. Did you know that your iPhone will shut down if it’s out in 8°F for less than 10 minutes? I do… For DS106 Daily Create TDC 780 it was easy for those of my fellow DS106ers to create a video by […]
  3. rockylou22

    DS106 Rocks!

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    If you’ve been following my communications out to the world over the last few days you know that the OER14 paper, “A DS106 Thing Happened on the Way to the 3M Tech Forum” that Alan Levine, Mariana Funes and I were writing was joyfully submitted on 2/27/14.  We’ll be presenting our 3M-DS106 Salon work at the […]
  4. dogtrax

    Strangely Captcha

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    Today’s Daily Create asks us to create with captcha — the anti-spam words that you rewrite on blogs. The whole notion of captcha is fascinating, I think, as it relates to books and words and crowdsourcing and more. Anyway, I decided to do a search of other Meandering Minds in the blogosphere (we are quite […]
  5. Andrew Forgrave

    … because it’s #4life !!!

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    Yesterday, MBS (@mbransons, on Twitter) tagged an earlier post here from a year ago with his post, “Hey, DS106radio, Just because …“, noting that he had re-created Andrew Allingham‘s epic logo design for #ds106radio in Illustrator so that the art could be used for higher resolution projects. Michael encouraged me to revisit the second-year anniversary […]
  6. dogtrax

    20 Steps Around the School

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    Yesterday’s Daily Create was to create a “20 Steps” video — in which you record your location, take 20 steps, record your location, take 20 steps …. 20 times. I walked around my school yesterday morning, using a shot of my feet as an anchor for my shots. As I noted on Twitter, this sort […]
  7. mdvfunes

    The Altered State Gif TechniqueJust for you Michael…But also…

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    The Altered State Gif Technique

    Just for you Michael…But also for me: take a look at this gif. Awesome.

    So, now for instructions. It started with this Tweet:

    @mdvfunes find a fast cut bit of video 6-12sec. Throw-out as many frames as secs. Crop to liking. Save w/o dither. Only 12-16 colors. Crazy.

    — Michael B Smith (@mbransons)
    February 19, 2014

    I tried but failed to make anything work in my previous post. Michael visited my post and tried to help me in more than 140 characters. It worked. 

    Here are the instructions that produced this lovely gif.

    1. Find a fast cut bit of video 6-12sec – This was referring to a piece of footage in which there are number of cuts in a short period of time. The most famous example of this of all time is definitely the shower scene from Psycho. There’s probably 50 some cuts in a two minute scene. That’s rough a cut every two seconds.
    2. Throw-out as many frames as secs – I’ve come to a rule of sorts with the maximum number of frames in a single GIF given it seems to work with Tumblr which has some often perplexing GIF rules. The file has to be less than 1MB and 500 pixels wide. But at times the GIF meeting those two requirements still gets rejected. At times by tossing out frames and hovering around under 30 frames in the GIF seems to do the trick. So with film/video being a medium that is 24 to 30 frames per second, I will throw out a corresponding number of frames based on the number of seconds long the video clip is. So for a one second video, I would use all the frames. Two seconds, I would use every other frame. For a six second clip I would use one in every six frames. Photoshop has this option while importing video to layers. I’m not sure if GIMP does this.
    3. Crop to liking – This is for Tumblr rules and aesthetic ones as well. Particularly if the original video is HD resolution or higher, sometimes focusing on an area of the frame rather than the entire frame is more interesting to me.
    4. Save w/o dither – Dithering is a form of digital noise added to the image to try and smooth the visual transition in color gradients. Think of a sunset’s reds to oranges to yellows. Without a dither, the transitions between colors can be very blocky/pixelated. Also without dithers, the size of the GIF tends to be smaller as there is fewer changes in pixel color assignments between frames.
    5. Only 12-16 colors – GIFs have a maximum color palette of 256 colors, which if you think about how good the image/animation can look it’s amazing. By intentionally reducing the color palette to a few colors, the image becomes ‘posterized.’ And for the same reason as no dither, the file size is typically smaller.
    6. Crazy – because the results were surprising and visually interesting. I really liked the even faster cutting of the image and the limited palette that holds it together.

    It is so simple when you have good directions. These remind me of glitch art and I have learnt something about the aesthetics of choosing a gif moment. It is all in those instructions, read carefully. 

    Here is to you Michael, thank you.

    12 second clip from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1OdeqIztt8

  8. rljessen

    TEDx Youth Edmonton

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    Yesterday TEDx Youth Edmonton took over the Telus Auditorium at the University of Alberta. Wow! What a group of students. Here is the archive of the first set. It starts with a little room set up, you might want to jump to when the event starts at 17:40. Here is the archive of the second […]

    The post TEDx Youth Edmonton appeared first on Rhonda Jessen.com.

  9. iamtalkytina

    Seven Planes

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    Well, I decided to add a couple more planes to my GIF from earlier today, plus some drop shadows to help you see the depth of the planes. Can you spot the missing plane? Well, bye.  
  10. iamtalkytina

    Would You Like Pancakes with Planes?

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    Well, it was a while ago that I tweeted to @jimgroom saying he should make some Art, bub and make two things (thing 1, thing 2) into #ds106 assignments. And do them, too. But I was on a mission and I didn’t see if he was awake or whatever, but then this morning I saw […]
  11. Reverend

    Open is as Open Does

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    Yesterday I presented alongside Martha Burtis about ds106 for the OpenVCU Symposium. Martha and  I have presented about this course together before, and each time it’s a real treat because we tend  feed off each other’s excitment. It also helps … Continue reading
  12. rockylou22

    Headless ’13 – The End

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    Without an instructor how would we know when to stop? When would we see “The End”?  Thanks to Mariana Funes for realizing that the UMW Fall semester ended on Friday, December 13th, 2013, the DS106 Headless ’13 course was given an end date. #DS106 is #4Life, but the Fall 2013 DS106 “headless” experience came to as […]
  13. rockylou22

    Ewww Brain… Now in 3D!

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    My DS106 maxim of Reduce, Riff & Recycle has once again resulted in a fun, creative morning project.  Ewww Brain… Now in 3D! Last August,  DS106′s Talky Tina created daily GIF challenges to keep our creative juices flowing while we were waiting for the DS106 Headless ’13 course to begin. Talky Tina’s DS106 animated GIF challenge August 2013 […]
  14. rljessen

    The Joy and Rhizomes Poem

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    It’s been snowy and cold here in Edmonton My rhizomes, at least the #rhizo14 hybrid are dormant, lurking Life interceded Our learning pathways diverged I’ve been over here with the TEDx Youth Speakers, working on an ignite-style presentation, today I was at teachers convention (yes, wifi-free zone as always, seems I am supposed to disconnect […]

    The post The Joy and Rhizomes Poem appeared first on Rhonda Jessen.com.

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