No one quite charms it like Frank Sinatra, look at him with his Ronald Reaganish slick poofed hair, here GIFfed from a clip from 1944 in Step Lively. I pulled 3 short segments with MPEG StreamClip, converted to .mov, and used the Photoshop import into Layers to make them each an animation sequence. From the animation palette, I found I could copy one set of frames to another, so I montaged this sequence into one GIF. “Come out, Come out, Wherever you are…” this si the magic of smooth Sinatra, he sugar coats a story, the lady is enthralled, and the next thing you know it is a show tune. And it keeps happening, again and again Who could be a classier recipient for the Oxford Dictionary 2012 Word of the Year? It’s making the rounds, but people, go to the source — It is not the GIF as a ...

If you need the reference… Last weekend, I went on a photo walk in Baltimore with friend/colleague Bill Shrewbridge, and we went to check out something of a Baltimore unique thing- the Patterson Bowling Alley on Eastern Avenue, a mighty emporium of 6 lanes. Built in 1927, it is one of the hubs of a variety of bowling (and many say it originated here) popular in baltimore and a few other east coast cities, duckpins. The pins are much smaller than ten pin, and the ball about the size of a grapefruit, so its harder to make a mark (the top scores in the alley were like 212). I remember doing this as a kid, and of course we had to have a go at at (the scores are not presented to preserve our vanity). We had the stylish shoes going… cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by ...

“The future of education is now. This is the single biggest change is education since…” maybe the film strip? Giulia pointed me to a video clip on the Paleofuture site featuring what the future of education would like (from a vantage point of 1967). The full film, “1999 A.D.” was produced by the electronics firm Philco- it was their 75th birthday and they wanted to show the world what it would look like by the end of the millenium. (For trivia’s sake the husband in the film is played by world class actor game show host Wink Martindale). Anyhow, the idea of learning in the home via video lectures and multiple choice tests feels so… 2012. Like now. Like MOOCx now. And the effect on the learner? We’ll see in this little mashup I could not help but create. Not every portion of the unevenly distributed future is worthy dipping ...