FlickrSounds Revisited

Or have a look by clicking this image:
flickrsound example

Following on from my last post, I’ve paused in animating gifs when I started thinking of the sounds of gifs, this is not quite adding sounds to gifs but making image slide shows with sounds. Made with a new version of flickrSounds, very much in progress. The first version, produced a list of images and sounds, this one produces a slide show of images which play sounds. I’ve not really figured out a good interface for creation yet but have been enjoying stretching my baby steps JavaScript with a bit of json saving.

At the moment the toy just gives iframe code which might not play that nicely with some blogs. Easy enough to extract the url and link to it. If more than two folk use it I’d add a field for that.

The new version of flickrSounds saves a json description of the images and audio selected. The Show page loads this json pulls in the images and audio and produces a slide show. I’ve only tested in Safari, Firefox and Chrome on a mac.

As usual I am not sure how useful this is, Ben Rimes found it interesting but no one completed it as a ds106 Assignments: flickrSounds“>ds106 Assignment. The main thing is I had some fun.

Update

Thanks to a comment by Ben I’ve had a think about the images being of different sizes. Check Show and compare to this Show inside, the second is chosen by adding &l=t to the url.

Sounds Like a Train

Alan’s challenge

Step it up a notch and match your train gif to a song using http://gifsound.com

reminded me of flickrSounds, so I made a wee train quote with pictures and sound, much to my surprise I found a train for for this and train sounds for bound.  Back to giffing soon.

this


by Abhinav (The Ludhiana Edition)
Attribution License

deep effect 3.wav

train


by swoofty
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License

Train Horn 2.wav

bound


by sporkwrapper
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

Ja Loco 02.mp3

for


by astrangelyisolatedplace
Attribution License

For your safety please remain seated

glory


by FarOutFlora
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License

IWPW 10 Thoughtful Driftings.aif

Train to Anywhere

I am getting on The GIF Train and Riffing a GIF working off Alan’s The Faultless Feed (GIF) Train.

going for the quick and dirty rather than any precision train engineering. Taking the CogDog Express across Scotland,

 

Over Glasgow:

And over the moon:

 

Here is a greenscreen train, if anyone wants to take the train a bit further.

 

 

 

 

Spinning some Gifs

Jim Groom and Scottlo pointed out Oxford Dictionaries USA Word of the Year 2012: ‘to GIF’. This got me watching a few old clips and movies looking for something to gif. Last night we were watching tv, a documentary about singles, with lots of archive clips with a fair bit of gif potential. I’ve run up a few, not too carefully.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playflow, QuickTime player to capture footage, my own Movie2Gif to select frames and export to gifs. Obviously a bit more time and care would have had better results, but I quite like the roughness.