for dropping in on and tumbling by DS106
A quick gif after yesterday’s daily create. I am looking at you #DS106 | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
I think this one hits Talky Tina’s ds106 Assignments: From the Twilight Zone, and Beyond … assignments.
I also think a much better job could have been done with the levels if I know a bit more about them. The idea is better that the execution.
Screen capture in Quicktime, my own hand knitted gif extraction. Edited in Fireworks to flip and add the background images.
So I am trying to get an idea of the twilight zone before the next round of DS106 starts. It looks like you can watch any of the first 3 seasons on The Twilight Zone Video CBS.com if you live in the USA. I may have to investigate some sort of fake us ip device to see these.
In the meantime I’ve been wandering round youtube. Watching the odd fragment and episode. I’ve watch a couple but Five Characters in Search of an Exit was the first to make me pay attention. According to Wikipedia the title at least is based on Six Characters in Search of an Author and No Exit it has been a while since I saw 6 Characters or read No Exit, but the links, especially to No Exit are clear.
I am beginning to get into the zone, but I found the exposition from Rod Serling a bit much, great voice but I think this episode would be better without the explanation.
On second watching I grabbed gifs as I went through. There is plenty of banging, ringing and the idea of repetition in the tale, I hope some of this comes over in the combi gif above.
The gifs are all short, 7 frames. I combined them by importing them into fireworks.
I am pretty sure there are a few good pun titles for this gif just beyond my grasp… can’t get out of the zone, sort of thing.
After knitting together the gif above I though that two of the frames would work, here is the major begging Rod not to talk so much.
I am wondering about redoing this one with Jim Groom in the Rod Serling position.
I guess this is a Multi-Frame GIF Story as well as a From the Twilight Zone, and Beyond … Assignment.
I though the gif at the top looked better on a black background, so wrapped it in a paragraph:
<p style="background:#000;padding:45px">
A new chapter of ds106 is starting.
ds106zone is an idea Dr. Garcia had about framing the Summer session around a Twilight Zone inspired thematic
from: bavatuesdays | a “b” blog
I’ve not idea about the twilight zone, well off my culture radar, so I am speed reading wikipedia and it looks like I’ll need to take a youtube trip. But DS106 is irresistible! A quick check to see if my blog is still in the mix:
@johnjohnston @jimgroom Nope once your blog is in ds106, its there for life.
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) May 13, 2013
So:
A little fast, but I am working quickly. Giffing through the night.
It will be a scream on the DS106 Train.
A train ride you never wake up from!
I am not counting, but ds106 Assignments: From the Twilight Zone, and Beyond … and ds106 Assignments: All Aboard The GIF Train.
So a new rather interesting DS106 assignments, For The Remix!
A series of photographs taken by Jonathan Worth of author Cory Doctorow are now available for you to remix, regenerate, and to make new art, especially in light of the themes and topics of his books.
The deal seems to be you should think deeply, share your idea and processes. More details: FTR! For The Remix! | remixing cory doctorow and How Do You Think Yoda Got So Wise? – CogDogBlog.
So I had a look a the pictures, watch Jonathan’s introductory video and though I might stretch to a quick gif.
Looking at the thumbnails, Mr. Doctorow’s office is impressive, with a nice range of cables and kit. I was hoping to play with the idea of printing some of the head shots, riffing of the idea of Jonathan sharing digital copies for free while selling prints. This idea he borrowed from Cory’s famous publishing method.
On downloading the high rez image I found what I though might be a useful printer was in fact a shredder, so I got rid of that idea:
I like the idea of taking a 45mb, 4000 dpi, 8000 odd pixel image and ripping a 500 pixel, 128 colour, 72 dpi gif out of it.
Unlinke most ds106ers I use Fireworks for giffing, mostly because I am familiar with it as I got a really great deal on Fireworks 8 but being a teacher years ago. Fireworks has some nice features for giffing. An image can have layers and frames, layers can persist across frames.
Here is what I did:
After all that I still wanted to print, so a quick search of flicker finds Printer Tiger
THis was a little trickier as I needed to skew the head a bit, I think photoshop has better tools for this.
Images of Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Worth, Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Printer Tiger, Marco Varisco, Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic — CC BY-SA 2.0
More BBC inspired giffing. nice to see some B&W back on the box. The Big Steal – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia described as a noir/comedy staring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer is great stuff.
I just marched through the movie grabbing some sections with Movie2Gif – John’s World Wide Wall Display doing a little extra cleaning up in fireworks.
Unfortunately I didn’t manage to find any section to illustrate the most interesting aspects of the movie. Firstly the female lead was I feel treated as more of an equal that usual. The only North American who could speak good Spanish, the movie is set in Mexico, she held her own bantering with Robert Mitchum, driving a car and firing a gun in fairly high heels. , the villains all shouted at the Mexican characters. The two main Mexican characters spoke good English and displayed intelligence.
I didn’t manage to gif any of those moments but here is a few I did:
