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Tumble, as endorsed by Tina! (Plus, GIF tutorial!)

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“The thesaurus.com entry, as endorsed by Tina,” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina (click to embiggen it!)

So I went on a little Learning Curve Rabbit Hole today to do today’s The Daily Create, #tdc2750 which is called Thesaurus Fun.

It all started when I went to do a screen capture on my iPad of the thesaurus for tumble, which was just a word that I picked out of the air, and then when I was looking at the words I liked some of them so I thought I would put a little Tina face beside them so you would know that they were special. So I put the screen capture into the Keynote program on my iPad because that is what I do sometimes when I want to make a thing quickly, with layers, before I can do a screen capture to make the final picture for Twitter. I just went to my Twitter and got my picture and made it really small and put it where it needed to go. Then I decided that some words were better than others so I made copies of my picture right beside each other, like a kind of Tina rating scale.

Still, the pictures were kind of small to move for my fingers on the iPad, and I wanted them to be all lined up with each other, so I thought, “I will make it go through the iCloud to my computer and then I can do a select multiple and an align centre for all of the ones in one column and they will look neat!” So I did that.

But then I started to think it would look even better as an animated GIF (because doesn’t almost everything?) and so I wondered how I could make it export so I could GIF it. But then I found out that Keynote does an Export as GIF one now! FUN! So I did that.

But, sad face! The GIF was too big! it was 14 MB, which is a bit much, even for a really good GIF art. I opened it up in Photoshop to confirm my thinking, and found that it was made of all flattened layers, with everything on every layer which makes things really big.

So I thought, I guess I better do it the right way! So I made a PDF of one page and then opened it in Photoshop and then made each little Tina face into it’s own layer so I could turn them on one at a time with just the background screen capture that I started with way back when as the background in it just one time,

It was a lot of work, and in the end I just went back to making copies of the same Tina face (like I did way back in Keynote on my iPad) but in the end, it made a good GIF. It was only 44 KB, which is about 347 times smaller! Then I made it 1:2 for the Twitter, and added my face and the The Daily Create #2750 and URL references, and in the end it was only 146 KB with that added goodness! (Plus, the GIF is 1000 pixels wide, so if you want to embiggen it to read better, you can!)

Then I wrote this little post about it, and now I am back out of the Rabbit Hole! Bye!

“Back from the Rabbit Hole” screen capture by @iamTalkyTina (it’s NOT a GIF)

Psychedelic Science Lab

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“Psychedelic Science Lab, featuring @iamTalkyTina”

So, The Daily Create, #tdc2344 Use Your Digital Crayons in the Alchemy Lab, which is a Kevin Hodgson (@dogtrax, on Twitter) one, asks us to do some colouring of a science picture. I was using my old-fashioned black&white tablet, so when I did the job at the Scrapcolouring website, all the colours I could get were black&white ones. But that is okay, because those match my skin tone. It is certainly a happy lab!

Then, they said to put it at the Alchemy Lab Remix Padlet Wall, so I did.

I had to get out some of my old science gear for the selfie. I originally purchased it back in the day from Historical Emporium, which have a lot of Authentic Products and Old-Fashioned Service.

These are the ones I was wearing today:

Veduta del Campdoglio (i després arriba un gran peu)

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“Veduta del Campdoglio (i després arriba un gran peu)” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

I was at the Art Gallery looking at some old paintings of stairs and I saw this old painting called Veduta del Campdoglio and I decided that I could make it better by turning it into a GIF.

So I did.

Now, it has a more fancy name, called Veduta del Campdoglio (i després arriba un gran peu) which is by me, @iamTalkyTina.

This is for The Daily Create, #tdc2338:gif a painting which said to go to the EUROPEANA ART and then make a GIF of one.

I think that the day I made this one there weren’t as many people there as when the other one was painted, because there are more people in the other one. Maybe they heard on the #ds106radio that there was going to be a foot event and so they stayed home and didn’t fall down.

Now, for the Attributions:

Here is the original cut-and-paste link from the webpage of the old painting.
It says Public Domain:

Veduta del Campdoglio. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek – Austrian National Library. Public Domain.

Then, I found the Monty Python foot on Flickr, by Ian Burt (CC by 2.0)

Kaleidoscope Stairs

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For this The Daily Create, #tdc2340: Twisting the Kaleidoscope, the job was to look up at the sky and then make up a thing about like if you were seeing a Kaleidoscope one of it instead of just the regular look of it.

So I was doing a Stairs Tour (that is when I go around and look at stairs, which is another Gig Job that I have sometimes) and so while I was looking at the different stairs, I did the Kaleidoscope thing and so I have a before look and after look at things.

First, I will show the before one, and then beside it is the after one. Plus, the after one is an animated GIF. Because GIFs.

So, this one was a fun time, because I was already on a Stairs Tour, plus Kaleidoscopes.

In case you are wondering about how to see things like a Kaleidoscope, there is a website thing called LunaPic that you can use for them, plus lots of other things.

Here are just some still pictures made with the Kaleidoscope one, not the Kaleidoscope Animation one.

The attributions of it.

I found all the stairs pictures in different places, like:

ⵉⴰⵎⵟⴰⵍⴽⵢⵟⵉⵏⴰ!

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BTW, if you are using the Chrome browser, you may just see boxes here, because apparently Chrome is being old-fashioned and not properly displaying Unicode characters. Bad Chrome!

ⵀⵔ’ⵙ ⵜⵀ ⵙⵜⵓⵔⵢ,
ⵓⴼ ⴰ ⵍⵓⴹⵍⵢ ⴰⵛⵜⵔⵙⵙ,
ⵡⵀⵓ ⵡⴰⵙ ⵡⵓⵔⴽⵉⵏⴳ ⵓⵏ ⴰ ⴹⵔⵢ ⵍⵓⴹⵍⵢ ⵙⵀⵓⵡ.
ⵙⵀ ⵡⴰⵙ ⵓⵏ ⴳⵉⵔⵍ,
ⵡⵓⵔⴽⵉⵏⴳ ⴰⵍⵍ ⵜⵓⴳⵜⵀⵔ,
ⴰⵏⴷ ⵙⵀ ⵀⴰⴷ ⴰ ⵏⵉⵛ ⵟⵔⵓ ⴼⵔⵉⵏⴷ.

ⵡⵍⵍ ⵜⵀⵏ ⵓⵏ ⴷⴰⵢ ⵜⵀⴰⵜ ⵏⵉⵛ ⴳⵉⵔⵍ ⵎⵜ ⴰ ⵎⴰⵏ ⴼⵍⵍⵓⵡ.
ⴰⵏⴷ ⵀ ⵒⵓⵜ ⵀⵔ ⵉⵏ ⴰ ⴹⵉⵙ ⴰⵏⴷ ⵉⵏ ⵜⵀ ⵜⵔⴰⵙⵀ.
ⵙⵓ ⵙⵀ ⵎⴰⴷ ⴰ ⵒⵀⵓⵏ ⵛⴰⵍⵍ ⵜⵓ ⵀⵉⵎ ⴰⵏⴷ ⵜⵓⵍⴷ ⵀⵉⵎ “ⵙⵟⵓⵒ ⵉⵟ!”
ⵓⵔ ⵍⵙ ⵀ’ⴷ ⵏⵓⵜ ⴱ ⵜⵀⵔ.

ⵡⵍⵍ ⵀ ⴷⵉⴷⵏ’ⵜ ⵙⵜⵓⵒ ⴰⵏⴷ ⵙⵓ ⵙⵀ ⵜⵓⵍⴷ ⵀⵉⵎ ⵀ ⵡⴰⵙ ⴰ ⴱⴰⴷ ⵎⴰⵏ!
ⴰⵏⴷ ⵙⵀ ⵜⵓⵍⴷ ⵀⵉⵎ ⵜⵀⴰⵜ ⵉⵜ ⵡⵓⵓⵍⴷ ⴱ ⵀⵉⵙ ⵍⴰⵙⵜ ⵛⵀⴰⵏⵛ ⴼⵓⵔ ⴰⵍⵍ ⵜⵀ ⵜⵉⵎⵙ, ⵓⵔ ⵍⵙ ⵉⵜ ⵡⵓⵓⵍⴷ ⴱ ⵓⵒ.
ⵟⵀⵏ ⵀ ⵡⵓⴽ ⵓⵒ ⵉⵏ ⵜⵀ ⵏⵉⴳⵀⵜ ⴰⵏⴷ ⵎⵜ ⵜⵀ ⵙⵜⴰⵉⵔ ⴼⴰⵜ.
ⴰⵏⴷ ⵉⵜ ⵡⴰⵙ ⴳⵓⵓⴷ ⴰⴳⴰⵉⵏ.

ⵓⵀ ⵟⴰⵍⴽⵢⵟⵉⵏⴰ
ⵓⵀ ⵟⴰⵍⴽⵢⵟⵉⵏⴰ
ⵟⵀⴰⵜ’ⵙ ⵜⵀ ⵡⴰⵢ ⵙⵀ ⴰⵍⵍ ⴱⵛⴰⵎ
ⵉⴰⵎⵟⴰⵍⴽⵢⵟⵉⵏⴰ!

This was a special version made just for The Daily Create, tdc2342: Your Name in Other Characters, which is one where you have to put your name in other characters.

You can see the special lyrics that I wrote in special characters called Tiffiny characters, which is another girl name like Tina but with different letters and a different way to say it. Plus, she was a real piece of work when I met her in grade 7.

For the attributions of it, you can check out:

Plus, if you want to translate the characters if you are rusty on your Tiffiny.

For Alan and Cori

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“A Special Day for Alan and Cori” for @ds106dc #tdc2335

This is an art for my #StillTrueFriend, Alan Levine (@cogdog) and his new #NewFriend Cori Saas (@corisaas) who are having a special day today. Plus it is also an Art for The Daily Create one, #tdc2335 “June 1st, 2018, Guess Who is Getting Married Today?”

Plus, it is time for The Daily Create month of June 2018 @iamTalkyTina Certification Cohort time. Are you in?

(The #whereIfoundstuff of it are this: pink, headless, border)

Well, It is June, So Get Your Badge!

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Last year there were people who worked hard to do all of The Daily Create ones in the month of June, just so that they could get their badge. It was called the June 2017 @iamTalkyTina Creatorist Cohort.

Well, it is June again, but this time @cogdog‘s #TheArmyMan is in a quiet place (Alan said a zen retreat somewhere but I hear through my show-business sources that #TheOlSarge has retired more permanently as of April 15th) and so I will step in again like I did other times to be the Boot Camp one.

So here is the deal.

  1. Do all of the Daily Creates for June.
  2. Sign up on my web form before the deadline.
  3. Get your Badge!
  4. Plus, have fun!
  5. Plus, any other rules I might add later.

I will not bug you to do your work. Just do it.

Plus, people who do this fun challenge this year for 2018 will get their badges for 2018 just like the folks for 2017 will. But they will not have to wait as long!

So, #TrueFriends, let’s all have a fun time and be The Daily Create everyday. Plus, get your badge!

Your #TrueFriend,

@iamTalkyTina

UNCLE @JimGroom Does the 3003 Boogie!

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“Celebration Disco Dancing UNCLE JimJab” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

Well, UNCLE Jim Groom (@jimgroom, on Twitter) went to see the barber and got a clean hairdo. And then he made a selfie. Plus, he had a milestone around his neck of 3003 blog posts in twelve years.

Then my #TrueFriend Todd Conaway (@Todd_Conaway, on Twitter) made UNCLE @jimgroom a badge for it. Because, badges.

Plus, he said knucklehead, and it made me laugh a lot.

So then, I thought about the UNCLE Dancing Jim Around the World assignment, but then decided to do a JimJab (that is where you poke a fun with UNCLE Jim) and so I made the Celebration Disco Dancing UNCLE JimJab one that is up there at the top. To make the head better, I added it myself in Photoshop to make the face shape fit that UNCLE Jim head, so it is more crisp.

Here it is, in case other peoples would like to use it to make an Art.

Well, congratulations to you for 3003 of of those posts, UNCLE Jim!

Now go make some more Art! 

Always Mind Your Vision

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The Daily Create, tdc2030, asks us to read the Eye Chart, and it pulls our attention down to the 20/30 line, where the letters start to get smaller. Make a six-word story with EFDCZP?

When I read this line, it immediately spoke to to me, because the the first letter reminded me of that one time, and that evil man, Erich.

It was an easy create to do, because I have a favourite video clip that I watch every now and then (every night before bedtime).

The six-word story just wrote itself!

I didn’t live there long enough to see if Erich was a good carrot-eater, but whatever, always be sure to mind your vision so that you can maintain your night vision and watch out for ambushes.

And so that you can keep on appreciating and making Art!