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GIF Pileup

I’m so missing having a copy of Photoshop to work on; my limits now for doing animated GIFs are assembling images– Saving frames from MPEG Stream clip or a series of images form my DSLR, loading as layers into GIMP, and trying to make them flip as needed, I really miss how PhotoShop can try and line things up. These are alll kind of junk, too much jerking and not aligned cleanly. Lazy.

First of all, it’s the nervous cop a young punk Robert Blake plays in Electra Glide in Blue:

Next, I noticed one night out my window that the horizontal lights on the Vancouver City Hall were flashing on and off to make it look like a ripple moving up and down (?) – it happened right at 10pm so maybe it is like a chime. I grabbed a few seconds of video and made this one in Cinemagram.

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Evaluating the ds106 Evaluations

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Most places I travel people ask me what it’s like working with Jim Groom and while it’s easy to reach for a wise crack (which I usually do), I have to frame this with a lot of awe for the spirit he brings to this […]

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A Wee Bit Me Too Much Yacking

What mean ye storytelling View more from Alan Levine I always enjoy the opportunity to doa remote storytelling presentation for Dean Shareski’s EMCP 355 class, I think I have done one for the last few years. Usually it is a blast through 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to tell a story; this time Dean asked to […]

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What The Taxman Doth Do

This is a story that uses flickr photos to illustrate a playlist poetry story I created more than a year ago. The original assignment, not exactly title aptly, was Stories Written in Windows Media Player— and is one of my favorite stories about stories because it was one of the earlier ones created by a […]

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Conversation with Tina Loo

It was a pleasure in my first week here to meet UBC History professor Tina Loo, who Brian and tipped me off to as far as doing inventive work by incorporating the Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) into her HIST 396 class on North American Environmental History. Part of my mission here is to learn more […]

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The Shape of Cool Hand Luke

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This is a fairly literal attempt to draw the shape of the story to one of my favorite all time films, Cool Hand Luke (1967) according to the Kurt Vonnegut approach: In the beginning, since he is drunk and feeling no pain, Paul Newman’s character […]