I got this thing for information graphics. It’s a Zazzy thing — can’t explain it. At any rate, Alan’s assignment was just what I was looking for to express my lifelong fascination with old movies, aging TV series, and the inscrutable weirdness of the bible. Dig it:
"Rift in the Space-Time Continuum … Convenient". by aforgrave, on Flickr
“Making night time work,
A convenient answer,
Bending the space-time.”
FlickrHaiku, TwHaiku, InstagramHaiku
I came across this solution, while seeking answers.
While still not the long-promised DayDoubler**, it’s nonetheless a start.
– At the Petro-Can, 10:10 pm. June 11th, 2012.
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I would have seen a mock ad for **DayDoubler sometime in the mid-90s, posted on a bulletin board outside the technicians’ work room at our DSB. (The room later served as our training lab, our PD library, and the home to our original web and email servers.) At the time, Connectrix marketed a variety of software solutions that served to attempt to extend memory (RAM Doubler) and storage (Disk Doubler) so that the computers of the day could do more with less than they actually needed.
The fictional Day Doubler never materialized. LOL.
Searching the web this evening discovered this text:
DayDoubler is a new product from Connectrix that gives you those extra hours in each day that we’ve been asking for. Using sophisticated time mapping and compression techniques to double the number of hours in the day, DayDoubler gives you access to 48 hours each day. With the shareware hack MaxDay, you can easily stretch your day to 60, 72, or even 96 hours! Connectrix warns that at the higher numbers DayDoubler becomes less stable and that you run the risk of a temporal crash in which everything from the beginning of time to the present would come crashing down around you, sucking you into a black hole.
Should this occur, be sure to reboot with the shift key down.
Source: Nov. 21, 1994: Brady Johnson,
TidBITS: DayDoubler.
A few years later, a colleague would regularly compliment me by wishing he had two of me. At one particularly important juncture, he wished he had three.
Over the years, I have also tried to find the companion product Clone Yourself, to no avail.
Sigh.
Assignment (Visual): Photo It Life Peanut Butter . . . 
I confess that I’ve never before seen the appeal of animated GIFs. Weren’t those the goofy little hyper cartoon characters that ran rampant in PowerPoints in an early era?
So I’ve had a bit of a change of heart, though I still think you can get too much of a good thing when it comes to animated GIFs and that the animation needs to contribute to the visual story’s compellingness (that should be a word) substantially. Animation for cuteness’s sake just doesn’t cut it for me.
To date, these are the most compelling animated GIFs I’ve seen — CogDog’s Animated Water. I get a real sense of being there. I can hear the splashing. Feel the mist. Yes! The animation makes the story richer. I also love the subtlety of this water-enhanced image “Animated GIFs from Your Own Photos.”
So you may laugh when you see my first animated GIF. I realize you may feel that I’ve resorted to cuteness, but I’d like to think that the fireworks shooting around me (my avatar) conveys a bit of the sense of the wonder I feel every time I pop into this virtual world. I am there. And when I watch this GIF I hear sizzle, pop, and bang.
I thought of sharing the experience of flying among the fireworks over the Bookhenge on Star Island because one of my students, Jennifer, emailed recently to say that she still often returns to the Bookhenge just to fly among the fireworks. And I thought I was the only one who loved to do that.
So do come visit the Bookhenge some time and fly up among the fireworks. If there’s no display going off, just let me know — 2B Writer — and we’ll create a fireworks celebration just for you.
GIMP is new to me but I’ve had some excellent tutoring from a PhotoShop pro. Still, there’s nothing like tying yourself to a Herman Miller Aeron until you come up with a decent product. The most valuable lesson I learned is that you need to make sure that the dimensions of your image fit your theme. I’d remembered that 640 filled the blog column so I went with that. Thank goodness I did. I later, when trying to troubleshoot the lack of animation on my blog, found a chart with the max dimensions per blog theme. 640 it was for my Twenty-Ten.
I think beginning with the GIF was actually a good intro to GIMP because it helped me begin to grasp the layers concept without actually having to do any real editing yet.
I’ll look forward to making more GIFs when I see that the animation serves my story.
A few months ago a students started playing “Call Me Maybe” in the library. He played it over and over and over again. I thought I was going to kill myself, and I told him as much. His response, “It really grows on you.” And so it does. I went home that night and instead of putting my head in the oven, I pulled up the video on Youtube and listened. Over and over and over again.
It looks like Slide Guy likes Carly Rae Jepsen just as much as the rest of the world teenage America.
There’s nothing better for sliding than a soapy windshield!
I started working on this assignment in Photoshop, but I find it too overwhelming at the moment. I saw GIMP mentioned a few times, so I decided to download and use that. I downloaded “Slide Guy” from the visual assignments page. I downloaded the “Call Me Maybe” video from Youtube. I then imported the video into VLC and found the scene I wanted. I went through the scene frame by frame until I reached the one you see above. To capture the still image, I used the “snapshot” option under “video.” Once I had the two images, I opened them both as layers in GIMP. It took me some time to familiarize myself with GIMP, but it was definitely manageable. I still hope to master Photoshop… or at least become competent in Photoshop… before the summer is over.
Dear Mom,
Things are picking up here at camp, so much so that I don’t really have time to write to you. In fact, I hardly miss you at all, what with all the projects and activities. This past week I did several daily creates that were image-driven, though I didn’t particularly love any of the ones I did.
On the Rocks with a Twist
I also created a new assignment, not yet listed in the assignment bank, called Gnomify Yourself. The first step of this assignment entails listening to Simple Minds’ “Sanctify Yourself,” after which you must sing the song to yourself incessantly–changing the lyrics to “Gnomify Yourself”–while transforming yourself into a garden variety gnome.
Oh, and one last thing: I made a pic into a sketch. (Props to WikiHow for this tutorial.)
Will write more next week if I have time.
xo
Ally
Copy Right
Daily Create 155: Mood Inversion – read something profound and make is sound banal, or vice versa.
Steklenberg thought he was beaten… but Slide Guy comes in to make a crucial save! And laughs mockingly at the Danish midfielder.
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I’m not sure what this is, exactly, but I was inspired by the Cinemagraphs that had some things that moved and others that didn’t. So I wanted Audrey Hepburn to stay still while the traffic went by behind her.
Got the footage from YouTube and exported into 8 frames using Quicktime, then used GIMP to add a layer with Ms Hepburn, and GIFNinja (my usual MakeaGif and Picasion weren’t working) to make it “animated”.
It came out a little more frenetic than I intended, but it didn’t look right at lower speeds.
Sorry, but camp is over! Head over to ds106
The Campfires have all been put out.
Camp is now over (see the final story. If you are craving an experience like this, head over to ds106 and see how to participate. For more on the Summer of Magic Macguffin, see.....
