{"id":629,"date":"2013-03-29T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=629"},"modified":"2013-03-29T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:52:38","slug":"dancing-all-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/dancing-all-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Jim Over the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night a old gif of mine got tweeted:<\/p>\n

Talk about premonition! @johnjohnston<\/a> depicted scene at #innovateOSU<\/a> by @jimgroom<\/a> more than a year ago! johnjohnston.info\/106\/jims-excel\u2026<\/a> #ds106<\/a>
\n\u2014 Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) March 28, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and I replied:<\/p>\n

@techsavvyed<\/a> somewhere I’ve got an @jimgroom<\/a> dancing action figure gif that can be placed anywhere;)<\/p>\n

\u2014 john johnston (@johnjohnston) March 29, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I love recycling, I dug out the old gif, which I also use for my Jim Groom Internet glasses and giffed it up a bit:<\/p>\n

\"jim_groom_office\"
\n\"jim_groom_white-house\"
\n\"jim_groom_peking\"<\/p>\n

I think there are already assignments that this sort of fits into. ds106 Assignments: Noiseprofessor\u2019s Jim Groom Art<\/a> perhaps, but perhaps giffing Jim around the world could be one in its own right?
\nIn case you want to join in here is a Dancing Jim Template<\/a> An animated 9 frame gif with transparent background. The back ground is pretty big to make it easy to edit. Here is how I do it with Fireworks.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open the gif<\/li>\n
  2. Make a new background layer that is Shared across frames<\/li>\n
  3. Add an image to this background layer<\/li>\n
  4. Move background around to get Jim in the right place<\/li>\n
  5. Optionally cut out part of background and past into new foreground layer, so that the figure is partially behind, EG the shoulder of the office guy above.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The original gif is getting a wee bit tatty now, having been through the gif wringer and at some point it may be worth revisiting the original film and extracting another.<\/p>\n

    All backgrounds from Morguefile.com free stock photos<\/a>, no attribution needed.<\/p>\n

    Update<\/strong>: I made this an assignment: ds106 Assignments: Dancing Jim all over the world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Last night a old gif of mine got tweeted: Talk about premonition! @johnjohnston depicted scene at #innovateOSU by @jimgroom more than a year ago! johnjohnston.info\/106\/jims-excel\u2026 #ds106 \u2014 Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) March 28, 2013 and I replied: @techsavvyed somewhere I’ve got an @jimgroom dancing action figure gif that can be placed anywhere;) \u2014 john johnston (@johnjohnston) … Continue reading “Dancing Jim Over the World”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[202,84,97,29,96],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animatedgif","tag-animatedgif","tag-animatedgifassignments","tag-animatedgifassignments1001","tag-visualassignments","tag-visualassignments353"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-a9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}