Tag: gif

This is #DS106

One of the best things about DS106 is the riffing and playing with other participants. I dipped my toe in the daily create stream yesterday and pulled out a great example:

As I saw this late there were already a great bunch of responses, I giffed:

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I had intended to have the notes ping right off the sheet, but this looked ok and it was late (so late I lost a few frames that would have made the jump a little more dynamic).

Todd said:

and Ron:

Today Viv iced the cake:

There are deeper thinks going on on DS106 but this is #4life

Record Riffing

It started with a tweet:

Then Alan: Spinning Albums from Reclaim Records made this:

Which was asking for a gif:

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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:

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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.

Greenhorn Mistake

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I’ve had a bit of difficulty getting time to watch any westerns. I decided to have a listen instead. I headed over to the Old Time Radio on Internet Archive and had a dig around, I spotted Gunsmoke – Single Episodes where there are 473 files.

I have heard of the show but knew nothing of it so I added the first episode to an RSS feed I am subscribe to in overcast and listen to it on my phone on the way to work.

As I listened I was quite surprised, this sounded familiar, sort of a bit noir 106. The hero showed a fair amount of cynicism, there were a couple of very negatively portrayed characters and most of the townsfolk were mob minded.

The hero was quick on the draw but noble in a Chandlerish way. He had a much worse temper than Marlow.

After listening I had to check Wikipedia

In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of the Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a “Philip Marlowe of the Old West”.

from: Gunsmoke – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

So much for my insight. The whole Wikipedia article is quite interesting. I’ll probably listen to a few more on my commute.

The gif is from the trailer of Cowboy (Delmer Daves, 1958)

One of the more unorthodox westerns of the 1950s, Cowboy is also one of the best.

Seems like the stereotype of cowboy movies is a bit more complex than I though.

Gif Switchback

With 3 unsatisfactory draft post sittin’ in the chuck waggon. I am delighted to have to the opportunity to boil some coffee, sit back and shoot my mouth off. Or rather shoot this gif out from the hip:

Frame Delay 7/100 sec
Frame Delay7/100 sec
Frame Delay 14/100 sec
Frame Delay 14/100 sec
Frame Delay 20/100 sec
Frame Delay 20/100 sec
Frame Delay 28/100 sec
Frame Delay 28/100 sec

If I have to justify this in terms of DS106 I refer to a bit of char on Alan and Mariana’s radio show: A Bit of Rodeo Clowning on First High Noon Radio Show – DS106 Tricks where Alan talked about thinking about size, quality and the like in animated gifs and trying to make them look good and keep the size down. Then Sandy mentioned on G+ that this gif was a bit quick.

A couple of older experiments with gifs:
Gifsicle options
‎requiem colour pallets

And a post Why Gif? might be relevant.