Search results for: “gif”
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GIF, GIF, GIF, GIF
As the animated GIF is increasingly recognized as an art form, more venues are calling for submissions. I have been involved with both open calls as well as curated collections (i.e. The Savannah GIF Festival, Fifteen Folds, The Tate Museum). It is exciting to partner with existing institutions as they work to make pre-existing art more accessible to…
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GIF Fight!!!
GIF Fight!! is a collaborative gif-making community on Tumblr which regularly features still image “challenges” for artists to showcase their animation and remix skills. For each call to Once posted, any number of participants submit their animated version which is reposted to the same Tumblr Blog. GIFFight!! was featured by Giphy.com as a special in their GIF artist…
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So there’s this competition and it involves making GIFs
via GifTournament Hype Gifs This is a start to a hopeful series of posts on how I Grok GIFs in which I make GIFs for and explain a particular GIF type, culture, or phenomena. Last week I made it through the first round of GifTournament Battle #4! I’m a contender. I can make rad GIFs! But what’s GifTournament? Why blog…
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Ruining heroes to better understand the GIF
On goes the quest to better Grok the GIF. Yesterday I discovered the subreddit Behind the GIFs. Which is basically MS Paint comics with an animated GIF ending. The posts originally explained the backstory of popular GIFs from infomercials. This post is labeled the inspiration, so possibly it is the first one (not sure). And here’s…
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History of the GIF
A Couple of Essays on GIFs Mashable History of GIFs The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF) Early 8Bit GIFs Signage – Early Vernacular of Navigation Pointers and Construction pages Welcome to My Site Hobbies and Personal Interests (animated clip art) Tools, Music, Pets, Cars, Flag-Waving Early Cultural Remixes Hammer Time! Chicken Explodes Bill…
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Uncontrollable Urge to GIF
If you’re a fan of post punk new wave music I highly recommend watching the 1982 film, Urgh! A Music War. Apparently this film which features the The Go-Go’s, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Dead Kennedys, The Police, of course Devo and many many more awesome acts was regularly broadcast on the USA network during the early days of cable. And…
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GIFing a Great Conversation About EPortfolio
I made a presentation today about eportfolio and assessment for York College’s annual day of assessment conference. The problem was I showed up with a conversation about eportfolio and a bunch of animated GIFs (see below) and everyone else showed up with graphs, charts, and numbers. When my colleague asked me to talk to faculty…
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Salivating Over Animated GIFs
This is probably my favorite way to make animated GIFs. Find that little loop in a moment of video and try to make it seemlessly play infinitely. This bit of animated juiciness comes from the 1941 Woody Woodpecker cartoon Pantry Panic. In this six minute short, there’s a cold front coming so all the birds but…
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Peter Pan Would Make Great Animated GIFs
I’m a big lover of the animated GIF having created dozens as bits of reflection on cinematic moments, film posters and comic book covers. These animations are all fabulous homages to stories I love. But I’ve also really enjoyed discovering how the animated GIF became an extension of traditional photography using subtle bits of animation.…
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Ballet Zoom Animated Cat GIFs
Boing-Boing posted a video of 70s Spanish disco dance group, Ballet Zoom, doing a boogie with live cats. Yes live cats! The leap to make a bunch of animated GIFs seems like a no brainer. And there’s no better way to get ready for the coming semester of DS106. Oh wait there is but that…