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cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by recompose Woah. (tap tap tap) [clears throat] Is this thing on? Yes, the red light is on. Welcome back. We took a nap here at cogdogblog for a few hours last night but still had stuff to write about. And we usually tell our […]
A smidgen over a month ago I wrote about a take down notice I received regarding my use of the “Amazing Stories” brand of magazine for some past presentation resources I have done aimed at highlighting the magic of what happens on the web when you freely, openly, (and not xMOOCily) share. And yes, while […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by listentothemountains It’s that lingering computer time before dinner, the window where you should really wrap things up if you do not want to be eating at 10:00pm. In her kitchen, making soup, Barbara Sawhill asks “Have you seen our ObieMaps project?” Hence I fall […]
No one quite charms it like Frank Sinatra, look at him with his Ronald Reaganish slick poofed hair, here GIFfed from a clip from 1944 in Step Lively. I pulled 3 short segments with MPEG StreamClip, converted to .mov, and used the Photoshop import into Layers to make them each an animation sequence. From the […]
If you need the reference… Last weekend, I went on a photo walk in Baltimore with friend/colleague Bill Shrewbridge, and we went to check out something of a Baltimore unique thing- the Patterson Bowling Alley on Eastern Avenue, a mighty emporium of 6 lanes. Built in 1927, it is one of the hubs of a […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It’s been almost a month since the Open Education conference wrapped up, this is a bit of summary of the experiment of using a PirateBox as a conference activity. The idea as cooked up with Scott Leslie, was to experiment with an open source sharing […]
One of the most frustrating aspects of Apple iDevices is the complete obscuration of the file system. We Have Been Judged Not Worthy of Having Access, in the name of ease of use. I’m find with this is the primary mode, but I know for a fact that within my decide is a file system. […]
“The future of education is now. This is the single biggest change is education since…” maybe the film strip? Giulia pointed me to a video clip on the Paleofuture site featuring what the future of education would like (from a vantage point of 1967). The full film, “1999 A.D.” was produced by the electronics firm […]
We know people love ds106. I love ds106. I know you do. My students this semester are doing some of the best work (especially in terms of representing their work online) I’ve seen since I started teaching this course in January. The UMW Domain of One’s Own greatly streamlined the startup process, Martha and I […]
During the ramp up Election night i was visiting Bryan Alexander, and found a relevant movie to watch, John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). Relevant? Heck yes- shape shifting monsters that emerge every now and then from the ice?
Watching of the early scenes, we smiled at the retro computer chess game that Kurt Russell’s character RJ Macready curses at when he loses
This scene cried out to me to be GIFfed; the first one I trimmed out the segment in MPEG Streamclip where he is just drinking his JBs, the glass up and down is a great repeat, and he has a little bit of q wry smile. Its kind of dark (as is the movie). For tis one, I extracted abut 12 frames and imported into The Gimp, dropped maybe 5 that were not critical. I then used the Groom method, lassoing the key area to animate, set as a layer mask, and apply to each layer.
So here Macready wonders about the machine, who he thinks he is master of, but it is the machine who really is the better (weighs in at 534k)
But the real scene, again somewhat of a metaphor of how Macready deals with what he cannot control is the end of the scene, where he calls Chess King a “cheating bitch.”
For this one, I used MPEG Streamclip to make a trim, and saved it as MP4. I converted it to MOV with Quicktime player, then and used PhotoShop to import into layers, using every 4 seconds. I dropped about 8 frames that had only small amounts of motion. This one is only 646k.
