Author: John

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)
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deep effect 3.wav

train


by swoofty
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Train Horn 2.wav

bound


by sporkwrapper
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Ja Loco 02.mp3

for


by astrangelyisolatedplace
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For your safety please remain seated

glory


by FarOutFlora
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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.

The DS106 Basement

Recycle The Media — MISSION: DS106 using media from http://minus.com/mvKXzhhcO mashup at least 7 different pieces of this media to make a new story, and use at least 2 different types.

Looking at the ds106 phonar recycle bin my eye was caught by a lot of bars, and I started thinking of being in a cage or going through a series of bars. I started just downloading a bunch of files, listening to the audio. The audio from the bit-fall-mona .mp4 video sounded ominous so I grabbed the movie.
When I started up imovie I veered away from the bars to start on the beach. I like beaches and have occasionally recorded sounds on the beach, there was a nice swish in the bin.
The scream, I imported into garageband, trimmed off the fire and added a female to male voice transformer.
This was to go with the face, trimmed off the icon, added some noise in Fireworks. I originally exported as a transparent png to overlay in imovie but could not get it looking right quickly.
The wave sound fades out as the bit-fall-mona sound fades in. There is the odd filter and only one transition.
So take a trip to the DS106 basement, where old gifs are jammed in dusty boxes.