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Category Archives: digital storytelling
ds106 Radio….lock it in!!!
OK, wow, that was a pretty awesome beginning to ds106, I’ve been having a lot of fun reading and commenting up a storm, but I got a little home sick for my blog, and plus I got tired of seeing … Continue reading
he’s a nihilist he believes in nothing
…and believe me it’s exhausting. I’m gonna revisit this one in Photoshop sometime soon and get it right. Way too big at 9 MBs, and the drift is off, but this is the one I want to perfect. This is … Continue reading
The Shining Animated GIF
I’m gonna be that guy, I swear I was gonna do this scene before the master over at “If We Don’t, Remember Me” did it first. I know there will be a moment after this animated GIF obsession, but that … Continue reading
DS106 week 1: Introductions, webhosts, and a domain of your own
Welcome to ds106, watching the eight minute video for my a rather unofficial introduction: ds106: Week 1 Intro from Jim Groom on Vimeo. Assignments for Week 1: A Quick introduction By way of introduction tell us all a story about … Continue reading
Email to UMW Online Section of ds106
My fire and brimstone warning email to the students of the online version of ds106 at UMW. I’m looking forward to this course, but I wanted to establish both the amount of work it will require, the fact their are … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing assignments for ds106
Image credit:D’Arcy Norman‘s ds106 Skull and Crossbones says it all One of the things I mentioned about a month ago about ds106 before I stole away on vacation was the possibility for crowdsourcing assignments over the span of the semester. … Continue reading
Ed Harris: An Animated Creepshow
One of my favorite scenes from Creepshow wherein Ed Harris delivers one of his best performances. And with this animated GIF I realized a slow, high resolution version of Ed Harris’s crazy ass dance does it no justice. It needed … Continue reading
Animating my favorite stunt
This may be my favorite stunt in all film and it’s from the classic Australia post-apocalyptic nightmare Mad Max, and I can’t think of a better eternal loop for an animated GIF. This is a smaller GIF, only 320px wide … Continue reading
Animated Apocalypse
Here’s a GIF for all you edtech survivalists out there, keep the faith—we will rise again and slay the man 🙂 Kinda surprised no one did this one yet. I actually did a few versions of this one in GIMP, … Continue reading
Totò Animated
For my first experiment with animated GIFs I opted for the facial gesturing of Italian comic genius Totò in Vittorio De Sica’s The Gold of Naples. I think I’m going to do a series of animated GIFs of Totò in … Continue reading