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Today’s Daily Create (tdc588) asks us to “Create a pass or certificate that allows you to not complete this Daily Create.” At first I thought this quite paradoxical: if I created such a pass, I wouldn’t have to create such a pass; but if I didn’t create such a pass, I would have to create […]

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The First Letter

I am combining a number of things in this post. In the traditional academic world we might call this cheating, I hope that in the DS106 world we might call it creative. 

We have been reading Alone Together on DS106 Book club and it has …

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Out for a drive? Thank you Michael B. Smith! After a very frustrating day trying to make Jim dance in my kitchen with Gimp (more on that another day) I decided to go back to basics and follow a tutorial. After all, a gif a day keeps the …

Out for a drive? Thank you Michael B. Smith! After a very frustrating day trying to make Jim dance in my kitchen with Gimp (more on that another day) I decided to go back to basics and follow a tutorial. After all, a gif a day keeps the doctor away as ...

It could be I am just out of coding shape or there is more to this reshaping of the ds106 Assignment Bank than it seems. I’d hedge money on the former, but not for ling.

This afternoon was spent doing more inside shuffling and some important theme adjustments. But now …

I don’t know if these posters technically count as ds106 assignments, but it was way too cool for me to pass up. The spider was made by me in gimp (I know, it looks so real). The awesome poster is by Michael Branson Smith - hopefully he doesn’t mind the riff!

I saw this yesterday when I did the other poster and I did not have time to do it. But I did this morning. Here is link to larger image.

You know how you can take those quick burst photo strips at the mall or the fair? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could bring it to life with a GIF? That was my inspiration for making this Film/GIF Strip extracted from a short video clip taken on my grandson’s 2nd birthday this past weekend. […]

I guess I missed the call but I heeded it when I heard it. So here we go. This is from this movie. It is an image by Ben Huber from the Castle for Cagliostro movie. I like the minimalist look and it made it easy to alter. I searched for a castle movie poster thinking […]

August 2013 GIF Challenge #14: Fruedian Alphabeta

Tina has again set a very high bar with her example gif.

I started off making the search gif, just to see how it could be done. A quick screen recording-mpeg streamclip – firework workflow go that.

I then used the advance image …

Gluten-free, Microwaved Chocolate Cherry Bundt Cake 1 hr prep time + overnight in refrigerator 1 tablespoon sugar 1 package Betty Crocker Gluten Free Devil’s Food Cake Mix 1 cup cherry pie filling (non-high fructose corn syrup) 3 eggs 3/4 cup water 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 tsp almond extract 24oz Plain Greek Yogurt as cake […]

A few days ago, our ds106 friend Stefanie posted a nice warholized image of Coco the clown. I am impressed with her work, not only for the coloring but for the regressive tiling down into the lower left corner. It has its roots in math, not quite Fibonacci, not quite …

  With the start of the headless approaching, I’m gearing up to get involved as much as I can while working full time. What got me thinking about writing this blog post was the unfortunate Tweet-delete incident where all of my tweets after 2011 magically disappeared.  1,000 posts gone, lost in a blink of an […]

Danger: Diabolik was Bava’s first and only big budget film. He had been used to making $50,000 films. Here, Dino De Laurentiis gave him $3 million to work with. Bava left $2.6 million on the table. Since his forte had long been using camera trickery and special effects to bring …

As I watched Danger: Diabolik, I thought that hitchhiking scene looked very similar to something from a Heavy Metal comic strip from my degenerate youth. Not a direct copy, but a similar idea.

Today I was fortunate to get a DVD copy of Diabolik through interlibrary loan, with commentary …

“Friends are True Friends” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

Well, I went to the Assignment Bank to get today’s assignment, and the Animated GIF Assignment 977 “Fruedian Alphabet” by Tom Woodward (@twoodwar)looked like fun, except for the typing in “I Hate …” part, so I changed mine to a …

So the challenge for day thirteen is one of @cogdog‘s wonderful assignments, Animated GIF Assignment 859: Riff-a-GIF, which asks us to take someone elses ds106 work and RIFF-a-GIF from it.

from: August 2013 GIF Challenge #13: RIFF-a-GIF | I am Talky Tina

I scrolled through a few recent …

  Some of the best parts of ds106 happens when people spontaneously build off of the whacky things others share. Rapid fire style. Your assignment is to riff on someone else’s ds106 work and make it new in a GIF form. It can be revising an existing GIF, or taking a graphic and turning it into […]

DS106 joined in the Tumblr GIF Fight (#GIFFight) this week.  Our subject?… to GIF-ify Darth Vader. A few of us (who I knew about) stepped right up when the tweet from @mbransons came across our screens. Jim Dancing with Darth Vader by @jimgroom Darth Vader plays a mean guitar by @cogdog You Ain’t My Father, […]

I love this! and it adds in the headless theme! Talky tina you rock, I hope to learn from you in headless 13 and become a true friend.…

The jury deliberates with an angry dog in their midst….don’t ask me how I did it. Let’s say that the old work play flow needs a little work but it did include quicktime, movie2gif, skitch, pixelmator and yet another failed attempt with Gimp. I am not getting on with it …

rockylou22: DS106 joins the Rebel Alliance

I didn’t know about #DS106 at the time but I actually gave an assignment very similar to this to my graphic design students. I was shocked at the results. They had to take a classic piece of literature and create a minimalist movie poster for the book. Here were the top 4 images. A similar […]

These were actually created last year by my graphic design students. I gave them this exact same assignment but only just now found about about #DS106. Here are some of their creations Student Compositing Gallery The DS106 version of this assignment and their submissions can be found at http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/paste-someones-head-on-an-animal-or-vice-versa/ You can find my video tutorial on […]

Once I saw that it was vader we’d be animating, I had to give it a shot. I used the clone tool to hide the lights and make them look like they were flashing. I also used the hue/saturation tool on the little yellow light to make it look like it was glowing – I […]

I was trying to figure out a way to get some of my students involved in an online community and I figure I better try it out myself first. #DS106 seems like a great way to get my feet wet. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s a Massive Open Online Storytelling class. I […]