Tag Archives: gifs

The Wood Beast from Flash Gordon

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Reverend

Thanks to a recent Tweet by Famous Monsters of Filmland about the upcoming 35th anniversary of the 1980 film version of Flash Gordon, I was inspired. The FLASH GORDON 35th anniv is coming! Buy the new @FMoF now or get a … Continue reading →

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The People’s Open Education Jam or, Say it with a GIF

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Reverend

This Friday I will be co-presenting with Graham Atwell at the  Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’15) in Porto, Portugal.  The talk is something we kind of half-baked up at EDEN15 this past April in Barcelona, and we have been playing with over … Continue reading →

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Lunch with the Torrances

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Reverend

During a discussion I had with a group of faculty this evening about managing their own domains, one professor asked how he might approach blogging in his film class. Because I can’t help myself, I immediately mentioned to GIFs as a way to … Continue reading →

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I’m One of the Greatest Animated Comic Book Artists! Well, actually…

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Reverend

Paul Bond tweeted out a link to this post featuring 25 of the greatest animated comic book covers of all time—which means the last three or four years when they became a thing. Check out 25 Greatest Animated Comic Book … Continue reading →

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The GIFs that Keep on Giffing

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Reverend

A couple of weeks ago the inimitable Martha Burtis both conceived and engineered a brilliant workshop for the freshman orientation. The session was titled “The GIFs that Keep on Giffing” and the mission was pretty straightforward, show 16 incoming freshman how … Continue reading →

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Free for All GIFs

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Reverend

I had some downtime while traveling today, so I did my Prisoner106 homework and went on a watching spree. I got through the first five episodes, and I am totally locked in. I might finish the whole season my week’s end, … Continue reading →

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GIFs have Never Been Bigger at UMW

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Reverend

Possibly the coolest thing about UMW’s Information and  Technology Convergence Center (ITCC) is the media wall. It’s designed to be a canvas for a variety of media creations, and it is centrally located in the atrium between the second and third floors. It … Continue reading →

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UMW Groks GIFs

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Reverend

Following up on my last post, Michael Branson Smith‘s Animated GIF presentation and workshop will take place at UMW from 1:00 to 2:30 PM this coming Tuesday, April 14th. Michael’s GIFs are poetry in motion, his Hitchcock Animated Movie Posters series … Continue reading →

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Best Weekly Summary Post Ever!

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Reverend

As part of the ds106 weekly process, students are expected to blog all their various assignments and then link to everything they have done and narrate their work what we call a “weekly summary post.” There is the expectation they … Continue reading →

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It’s Chinatown GIFs, Jack

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Reverend

I spent some time making Chinatown GIFs this morning, and I think the shot of Mulwray’s dead body might be one of my better attempts in a long while. GIFs are not only fun to make, they are awesome for … Continue reading →

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