Record Riffing

It started with a tweet:

Here is a new, awesome take on @reclaimhosting‘s logo–a GIF! @BryanMMathers you rule! pic.twitter.com/d4U2ZyYsac

— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) April 22, 2016

Then Alan: Spinning Albums from Reclaim Records made this:

Which was asking for a gif:

This was a little quick and dirty, it used my original Dancing Jim from ds106 Assignments: Dancing Jim all over the world. I knocked it up just before bed time last night.

Method:

1. Download video (I use YouTube downloader tool – Fastesttube!)
2. Export some frames with MPEGStreanClip
3. Import into fireworks, as layers and distribute to frames.
4. Import gif 3 times an 1st, 10th and 19th frame
5. Export to gif, bit of loss 256 colours

This morning I remembered a cleaned up version of the gif: August 2013 GIF Challenge #2: Dancing Jim All Over the World | I am Talky Tina and a tip to clean up further: He’s a Maniac! And He’s Dancing Like He’s Never Danced Before | de•tri•tus.

I grabbed that and:

Finally I though to add some music:

Having downloaded Minutemen – I Felt Like a Gringo from YouTube and pulled out a bit of audio, crushing to 32bps, with audacity.

GifMovie with my GifMovie Plugin.

If you can’t tell I love the connections in this #DS106 story.