A poorly developed film negative (see above) resulted in this scene being edited out of the final cut of the third film in Julia Child’s “Le Chef de la mort” action trilogy, “Reçette Pas Nécessaire.” You can get some sense of the original drama in this animated GIF assembled from the ONLY two frames that could ...

On Wednesday, January 23rd, the prompt for The Daily Create was just too good to ignore. Ideas started flowing even before I went seeking an image to use for the assignment. tdc381 – Design a poster of an action movie starring Julia Child. (!!!) See — how could you not want to try that? This ...

Are you listening? Well, ARE you listening?  You better be! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DS106RADIO !!!! YOU ROCK !!! #ds106radio is celebrating its second birthday this weekend. Of course you’ve listened to the open, online, free-form internet radio offshoot of the University of Mary Washington’s Digital Storytelling course, DS106, RIGHT?? I’m sure that DS106Radio’s stickiness comes directly ...

From HItchcock‘s 1964 film of the same name. Here, Marnie (played by Tippi Hedren) waits quietly in the washroom stall at work at the end of the day while waiting for everyone else to leave. The camera focuses on her for the duration of the scene, while she listens and waits to hear the other ...

You all think I have such an easy life, Endless days of napping on comfy sunlit carpet, Free tasty fish food, Fresh water, Attention when I allow it, And independence and own-time all the rest. You only see me when I want. And maybe you see me as spoiled. It’s not all purrs and naps ...

Jim Groom (@jimgroom, on Twitter), the dynamic energy behind the ds106 open online digital storytelling course (as well as in-person sections at University of Mary Washington), is listed on Wikipedia in conjunction with the term, EduPunk. The original photo for this GIF comes from that entry, along with the ds106radio Twitter icon. Jim was on ...

I started drafting a response here this morning to the recent announcements by the Ontario Liberal Government and Minister of Education Laurel Broten. As it would turn out, I wound up posting the item on my edVisioned.ca blog, “Broten: Oxymorons, Verbs, and Grammar.”  Feel free to follow the full story there. However, it seemed appropriate ...

In support of my renewed commitment to the Photo-A-Day Project 365 endeavour, I’ve been transferring images off of memory cards, and started sorting and cataloging photos from as far back as the summer of 2011. It’s actually been that long since I took a disciplined approach to managing my images! Some may recall (Giulia, so ...

I’ve had this GIFestivus2012 GIF done for a few days. It’s for Ben Rimes’ Animated GIF Assignment 871: My Little Pony, Friendship is GIFtastic. Rainbow Dash and the other pony look like they’ll be flying for some time now. Check back later to see if they’re on a break. It took quite a bit of fiddling ...

The Daily Create today called for a Haiku. And that was just fine by me. But when it came time for my 2013/365 picture, I was looking for a subject. Revisiting the Haiku provided the subject, and I added the poem to make an art print. Unfortunately, the original image was cropped, and so it ...

Wishing you the very best for the coming year!! This animated GIF is made from a series of screen captures from MineCraft, where the sign for 2013 was built during the last two hours of 2012. Rather than using Lego this year (I’ve kept my previous builds for 2010, 2011, 2012 — I’m running out ...

Prior to the two recent film parodies of OSS117 (Cairo, Nest of Spies, and Rio Doesn’t Answer) starring Jean Dujardin, I’d not heard of the original character, secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, who pre-dates Ian Fleming’s James Bond by four years. Appearing first in 1948, OSS 117 was a creation of French author Jean Bruce, who ...