Oak from below
Do you remix?
points to his blog post The way of the remix.
Where he asks:
Do you remix?
If so, how do you remix? What is your remix trigger? Is it curiosity or simply joining the dots as you see them? Do you like to layer-up? Or strive to simplify? Is it a tickly thought? Or a random one from left field?
Well yes, I think I do, although my definition of remix might be widened to include mashup. but of course, Everything is a Remix.
How, is a long story. I guess I prefer DIY approaches. I use baby steps, image editors (Fireworks is my fav), JavaScript, php, commandline tools (ffmpeg, imagemagick, gifsicle) and anything else that seems interesting.
The why is harder, I am not a developer or an artist, I don’t make anything as polished as the remixes that scale on social media. I like to think it is because I nearly can. That is I am going to learn something in the process.
DS106 was a major trigger, the people involved, especially @cogdog, @jimgroom and @mvdfunes The daily creates from DS106 often led to remixing.
Wouldn’t it be cool is another trigger, or I wonder, or will it be funny, or impress someone(Usually only me). Or I learn about a new, to me technology and try it out.
Here are a selection remixes & mashups I am quite please with:
- pechaGif is a remix of the much more useful pechaflickr made by Alan, a sort of joke I guess. As with many remiixes it was an off shoot of another,
- DS106 GiF TV also silly.
- Dance Jim Dance is a sort of remix of a gif (one of the first I made) that was a remix of a video of Jim Groom. This generates gifs of Jim dancing (see also Don’s Gif Zen).
- Random Flickr Blendr remixes flickr photos, inspired by @mvdfunes. It actually is getting some use inspiring some of KevinHodgson (@dogtrax)‘s poetry
- A lot of my remixes involve gifs. These might start as video, or stills or layers of stills. I tend to remixed again and again #giffight was a tigger for many.
- Wire Characters Season 1
- More phenakistoscope a css animation which started with a wonder.
Featured image, a remix of a gif that I made as a remix of an image in the Tate. using The way of the remix by @bryanMMathers is licenced under CC-BY-ND.
I think I’ve listened to all of the Micro Monday podcasts, which are short podcasts talking to the members of the Micro.blog community. As I’ve enjoyed every episode I was honoured!
Next to each other in my Instagram feed.
Troisgeach and Meall an Fhudair 20 Apr 2019
Photos on the map: walkmap and on Flickr
Yesterday I went on this familiar walk.
Bright day with clear skies and a lot of haze. Little or no breeze. Waerm, t-shirt all the way.
The grass and heather on the hills has not started growing, very dry too, which make for easier walking.
Lots of wee birds singing in the woods at the start.
Stonechat and wheatear further up the path.
A common lizard on the way up Troisgeach.
Quite a few white feathers then a few ptarmigan neat the top of Troisgeach.
Pools were filled with frogs, croaking loudly and mating all over the moor .
Plenty of deer sign but no deer.
As I came off Meall an Fhudair what looked like a peregrine flew by.
As I got back to Troisgeach a couple of eagles circling and drifted off south.
Met the ptarmigan again.
Half way down Troisgeach I sat down an the two eagles appeared briefly over the ridge to my side. By the time I got over only one was in sight, being mobbed by a raven or crow. The size of the eagle compared to the mobber made me sure it was an eagle.
Interesting Ground Beetle. Carabus nitens perhaps on the track.
A few butterflies, peacocks and one orange tip near the bottom.
Read The Melody by Jim Crace ★★★★☆ set in a slightly altered eastern European country, hints of strange wild creatures.
Ground Beetle. Carabus nitens perhaps.
Ptarmigan
Pleased with this phone shot.
I did
A minute later I heard the first cuckoo Of the year.