Now that the Anaglyph-A-GIF has been a little more clearly defined, I’ve decided to add it (along with the simpler, static 3D Anaglyph to the ds106 Assignment Bank. I did a search for anaglyph and 3D, and didn’t really turn anything up that is similar aside from Bill Genereux’s Wiggle Stereoscopy (Visual Assignment 352),  the similar 2-frame […]

Interesting. In revisiting the “George Wither, page 8, ‘Boo’“ GIF in order to update the misspelling in the “view with Cyan-Magenta 3D glasses” text, I have uncovered another issue and made another little improvement. I had originally provided a transparent background for the full image. My thinking was that a uniform, white background might telegraph to […]

In the depths of meticulous attention that supported the exploration of my initial Anaglyph-a-GIF process this week, I managed to publish several pieces (to three different sites) with a glaring error in spelling in all of them. Introduced in an original source file and then copied across several versions, an incorrect spelling of Magenta smiled out at me […]

Yesterday Jim Groom (@jimgroom, on Twitter) was writing about Silicon Valley (End the Domination of Silicon Valley) and the 1985 Bond film, “A View to a Kill,” when he came across Car 106. Having long sought an image of a police car bearing the 106 number, he captured the image and posted it. Now I see […]

Well, I’ll be arriving a bit late to this party, but the summer break brings a bit of extra time to participate in a variety of online learning experiences, and so I’m going to jump into the Thoughtvectors in Concept Space course as an open, online participant. There are a lot of great folks already engaged in […]

We are a couple days past the official start of the season of summer, but the school summer break here begins in less than 24 hours, and with that, a there is a bit more time in the day for free-form Creativity. To help get back into the groove of The Daily Create, I undertook […]

Well, a quick check of the Twitter following my last post showed that the conversation regarding a DS106 Workspace pen has continued since Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway) introduced it last night. Todd has since put forward an official un-organization chart (distinct from a dis-organization chart, I’m sure), identifying the pen recipients (below the red line). While […]

A new iteration of the DS106 Digital Storytelling course started up this week. Although I’ll have limited time to participate this time, I am intrigued by the backstory that exists whenever the course re-appears. This time, the “context” for the course is the setting of the workplace — motivated in part by the fact that […]

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 […]

The more I worked on the Tate Gallery 1840 GIF Party submission  “No dona eis requiem” GIF, the more I kept seeing the piano-playing priest as Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation — the likeness is pretty much dead on — and the red and black in the robes made it easy to see […]

The original image is “Rehearsing the Service” from 1870 by Alphonse Legros, and is one of the images open for interpretation in the Tate Britain “1840s GIF Party: Call for Submissions.” I had to wrap my brain around taking some kind of a different approach to get a GIF out of this image. I knew […]

I’ve been intrigued by the Tate Gallery’s 1840s GIF Party and have been looking to find the time to dive in and see what I might come up with. Any invitation to create a GIF is worthy of a response — but the opportunity to work with some old school art presents a specially unique […]

It was too good an opportunity to pass up! Mugs are on sale today (Sunday, January 26th) at 50% off on Zazzle, and it was easy to put the DS106RAD.IO Radical In Radical Out 3rd Anniversary design on a travel mug — heck, it happened via an iOS device before breakfast! The travel mug is […]

As I write this, we are moments away from the 3rd anniversary of our beloved #ds106rad.io. As I have noted before, shortly after Grant Potter introduced the Voice of DS106 Digital Storytelling, the Internet-based ds106radio station, it suddenly seemed that every single tweet coming out of @jimgroom had the #ds106radio tag. It was almost spammish in it’s […]

For The Daily Create, January 10th, 2014: tdc733 “Design an album cover using a portrait of brothers @timmmmyboy @jonathan0wens” The font is called LoveNessThree by bythebutterfly, sourced at 1001Fonts.com – free for personal use.  I wish the font didn’t disappear into the stars in the lower half (song titles) due to the thin lines, but I couldn’t find […]

After many months of planning, preparation, and hard work, the 34th annual conference of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) is underway. Following regular increases in yearly attendance in recent years, the decision was made to move the conference to a larger venue, resulting in our hosting of #ecoo13  in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Arriving […]

The Daily Create for September 17th tdc618 prompts us to “create a Face Swap image of yourself swapped with Talky Tina’s face!” Since John Johnston (@johnjohnston, on Twitter) had done such a masterful face swap already with iamTalkyTina (@iamTalkyTina, on Twitter), I decided that I would riff on his image and swap my face with […]

Success! Oh Happy Day!! The flat original animated GIF layers, after being Grouped and Duplicated into the 3D Book template .psd, managed to hold their alignment as a group while the scale, rotate, and skew tranforms were applied. After that, it was necessary to create 42 frames to re-make the animation (copying GIF layers to another […]

Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya, on Twitter) has a pending appearance today on ds106tv, and so yesterday’s The Daily Create for September 11th, 2013 asked us to celebrate the event: TDC612: We predict the next book by @anya1anya is about #ds106. Design her some cover art. I had to do a bit of research on the web […]

tdc604 Headless cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by aforgrave And, for those looking for a little more, here’s a GIF version: The instructions on assignment page for The Daily Create tdc604 provide just enough simple direction to make this a great little task. Here some hints- take your own photo, […]

The Daily Create tdc 595 for August 25th asks us to “build a monster out of items in your kitchen and post of photo of it.” I posted a static image of my monster to Flickr, but this Wigglegram version is perhaps a bit more animated. The #headless13 fall session of #ds106 Digital Storytelling course […]

So I pulled out the 3D Camera app today on the train when I saw some discussion on Twitter about making Wigglegrams using mobile applications in response to the August 2013 Animated GIF Challenge #11. I’ve always enjoyed making wigglegrams using the 3D Camera app, and found a quick subject on the train that I […]

What a great fortune that I just happened to be watching Jim Groom (@jimgroom) and Paul Bond (pbond ) talking about Mario Bava‘s Kill, Baby, Kill yesterday and had this little moment of Jim fresh in my mind when I read about @iamTalkyTina‘s Animated GIF Assignment: Monster Chiller Horror Theatre 3D GIF challenge. It’s not […]

Alan Levine (@cogdog) put out a great post today, “You Don’t Get DS106 In a Box”, and a couple words just jumped right out at me. When you dream of “ds106 in a box”, what you will get is actually just an empty box, a potential. – Alan Levine You really should read Alan’s post […]

Your browser does not support the audio tag. I must have been blind when I took this photo at the recent Apple Store Markville opening (slideshow). I didn’t notice @jimgroom doing a dance-webcast (a popular Apple Store pastime for teens at one time) off to the side until I got home and developed my memory card. […]

The Daily Create for July 9th, tdc548: It is your 100th Birthday. Tell us a story of a crazy thing you did when you turned 90. I accessed the Way Forward Wayback Archive, a little-know alpha project offshoot of the Wayback Machine, to get at this little recollection of future events. Sounds like it was […]

There was a brief time when I switched hard drives (I’m thinking it was sometime during the late summer/early fall of 2012) when I poked around using GIMP to try to understand Animated GIFs because I didn’t have ready access to my Adobe Photoshop and there were some ds106 tutorials about GIFfing with GIMP.  While […]

Wow! Has GIFestivus2012 been a blast, or what? As I write this (originally dated January 18, 2013, but only published July 8th, 2013), I have something on the order of 14 posts on de•tri•tis that are tagged with GIFestivus2012 and couple of those have several GIFs on them, putting me at about 20 completed and posted GIFS. (As […]