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New #headless13 Friends, and a new True Friend

Well! The numbers on the Countdowner-thingy are getting lower and lower, and both are now in the single digits.

“The #headless13 Countdowner-thingy” animated GIF by iamTalkyTina

As of right now, tonight, there are only 6 blogs on our #headless13 Friends Index that are the efforts of unnamed #headless peoples, and there are only 9 in total that do not have a Twitter name (that we know of).

This is a wonderful improvement from just two days ago when we were at 9 unnamed and 17 without Twitter respectively. I am a little bit worried (not because of my height, but just because it is an expression of just a little bit) that six of the blogs on the #headless13 Friends Index are not really showing any real sign of #4life, and I have tried my very best to leave comments and inviting messages of welcome wherever possible — although one or two do not allow comments and so that has been kind of hard in those cases. Plus the fact that we are not about pushy here in the #ds106 community and we are all about Friends. But it may be that some are just slow to wake up from the shock of decapitation. Plus, I have not checked the OPML thing in two days (it now lists 66 blogs and I have 64 in my little database), plus there are 78 in the Google+ Community who may be doing #headless13 without a blog (as of yet) or maybe it is just some #4lifer regulars in their messing around while they take a #headless13 hiatus.

However it works out, the #headless13 fall session seems to be alive and well-decapitated.

I have been very pleased with the help that my new friend Mariana Funes (@mdvfunes) who has been SO helpful in the detective work in finding names and the Twitter names of the unknown mystery Friends on the #headless13 Friends Index. It is always wonderful to have Friends that you can count on, and I know that Mariana has had her little heart set on a True Friends badge for a while now, so I would like to acknowledge all of her help and Friendship and niceness by presenting her with her badge. She is also now listed on the True Friends Index. Thank you, Mariana, and congratulations!

Let’s find a way of welcoming the remaining mystery people into our community before they get cut adrift, and let’s all have a great time making some Art, bub!

Plus, Mariana Made an Art for Me.

P.S. Just in case you have not seen the following little wonder on the Internet over the past two days since it appeared, I am going to embed the wonderful response that Mariana said to me in response to the question that I asked her (because she is the #ds106 on-the-couch psycho person), which was, “Siri, what is the meaning of life?”

This is the Art that she made back to me for my question to her. Here it is:

Isn’t that special? I like the parts that have me and things that I say the best. Plus that other part was good, too, the poem that talked about Wraiths. And (spoiler) it was sad when the fish died.

#ds106 #4life

tdc603 My Keys

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The Daily Create assignment for Monday, September 2nd is the classic video start-of-course prompt, “Show us your keychain and tell us a story about the keys and/or things you have on it.” It is always such a wonderful way to get to know people!

Here is my video. I know you will like it!

#ds106 #Headless13 Who Are You? Countdown

Here is a Boot for You!

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So I think it is a great thing that so many people are #headless13 people for the fall2013 #ds106 Digital Storytelling Course. I think it is such a great way for me to get more Friends and to Make More Art at the same time. I made a new Index called #headless13 Friends Index, and you should be on it!

Are you?

For some people in the Boot Camp, they need a kind of gentle kick to get going and so I have a boot for them. In case they need a good boot. Because some of them do. Here it is.

“Here Da Boot” animated GIF, by @iamTalkyTina

So if you are being lazy or have been too busy (which it what they all say!) then it is time for the Sergeants to get Hulka on your hyena.

You have likely seen a nice picture of me wearing my Sgt. @iamTalkyTinaHulka hat. And you have probably seen a picture of the other Sgt. Hulka that is NOT me. My hat has flowers which says I am nice. And so I am giving you this boot to get going, before the other Sgt. Hulka gives you HIS boot. And his hat does NOT have flowers. So I think you can guess whose boot you want.

So if you are just getting started, you might like to read my post, Some Advice for my Newest Friends, which has some wonderful ideas for you that you should do, especially if you are on my list but don’t have a name or a Twitter yet. Right now, my list has 10 no-name brands people and 18 without Twitter bird voices people. It is much nicer to be a Friend with someone who has a name and if you can hear their Twitter bird voice.

So this has just been a polite @iamTalkyTina public service announcement. And a boot for you to get going. Because #headless13 has started, and we are making Art, bub!

Remember, a GIF a day keeps the doctor away!

August 2013 GIF Challenge #15: GIF Fight! Superman 80s Toys Son of Krypton Puppet Theatre

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THIS is the source picture for making a GIFFight! GIF. Good luck!

WELL! Have I every been busy! Not making GIFs (as I guess you may have figured), but living my life again, free and out of that silly box and away from that @Puppetmaster106 and his minion @AneuwegCentSix. More on that tomorrow.

In the meantime, another #GIFFight! is upon us! So today’s challenge is to respond to the latest image on the GIFFight tumbler site, 80s Toy Smackdown, which will be based on the prompt image shown to the left: #ds106 entries in response to the GIFFight! prompts fall into the Animated GIF Assignment 1190, “GIF Fight!”

Well, you might ask yourself, “What in the name of all that is GIF-able am I to do with that?”
Well, that is your challenge.

Here is what I made out of it. What will you do?

“Superman Puppet Theatre” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

What Did I Do to Make this GIF?

Well, I had to do the following things.

copied part of the image as a background and extended both the sky and the ground using the Clone Tool.
enhanced the colours in the puppet theatre background
added a window in the backdrop and a puppet theatre header/sign
sourced a Superman logo to use on the puppet theatre header and added the text using the text tool
matched the water to the colour of the blue in the Superman logo.
used the Quick Selection tool and the Magic Wand tool and the Eraser tool to isolate Superman, and later, Batman and Robin in the Batmobile.
Added my @iamTalkyTina behind (below) the background layer (with the window) so that my face could peek out.
added strings to the first frame, attaching the Superman action figure to my hand (hidden)
made multiple copies of the initial frame, adjusting the location of the Tina, Superman, string, and Batmobile layers to provide the animation. Three copies of the Superman/Strings groups allowed Superman to rock back and forth as I moved the string.
Once the GIF was closed to being finished, I added a return transition back to the first frame. It didn’t seem right to have the GIF flow forwards and backwards, so I put in a series of restore frames to get back to the first one. That basically involves reducing the opacity of the layers in the last few frames, and increasing the opacity of the layers in the first frame.

Plus, because Tumblr only works with GIFs that are a maximum of 500 pixels wide, I made a 500 pixel version, but that version is so far still fighting with Tumblr to get posted.

Fighting with the Tumblr

UPDATE: So I did a little search on the Google for “animated GIF requirements for tumblr” and found a post called “GIF Requirements in Tumblr” that says the following about maintaining GIF animations when posting to Tumblr.

GIF can be no wider that 500 pixels to maintain animation
GIF can be no longer than 700 pixels or it will be resized down
GIF can be no larger than 512 KB to maintain animation.

In this case, my GIF at 500 pixels wide met the length requirement at 667 pixels long, but the file size of this version was too large. I changed the depth from 256 colours down to 128 colours, and now the file size of the new file is 482.8 KB, and it is still generating an error when I try to post it.

So I will go back to the Google for a different article. Maybe I have to cross my fingers when I push the Publish button on Tumblr? Or stand with Tumblr at the top of some stairs or something.

So now it is time for you to enter the GIF Fight! Remember it is NOT a hurting fight. It is a nice fight for Friends with fun and GIFs. Make some good Art GIFs bub for your internal GIF Chi. Keep your GIF Chi strong!

Well, bye!

August 2013 GIF Challenge #14: Fruedian Alphabet

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“Friends are True Friends” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

Well, I went to the Assignment Bank to get today’s assignment, and the Animated GIF Assignment 977 “Fruedian Alphabet” by Tom Woodward (@twoodwar)looked like fun, except for the typing in “I Hate …” part, so I changed mine to a nicer one “Friends Are True Friends” and I got a whole bunch of nice stuff to make a great GIF for my Friends, New Friends, Open Friends, True Friends, Super True Friends, Still True Friends, Real Friends, and other people who aren’t my Friend yet but will be one day.

I hope you like it as much as I had making it for you. All the words came with the pictures just the way they appear, except for if I changed them like I say below. But the words right at the end are my own words to my Friends.

All of the Images I Found

Here listed down below is where I found the images using the Google. Some of them I tidied up a bit to make them look less pixel-ly or whatever the problem was. Or made them bigger. Or smaller. Or square to fit. Or got rid of a border. Or re-did the text in a cleaner font. Or made the colours more the same if they weren’t. Or made a transparent back. Or like I said before, whatever.

But they’re not in the same order as in GIF. I leave that as an exercise for the reader.

• http://tomatokisses.deviantart.com/art/true-friends-131627197
• http://hdshootz.blogspot.ca/2012/08/true-friends-true-friends-wallpapers-hd.html
• http://smsbyheart.com/sms/friendship-sms/
• http://www.wordsonimages.com/photo?id=112057-We+live+in+fact+in+a+world+sta
• http://www.wordsonimages.com/photo?id=104992-True+friends+vs+fake+friends+q
• http://www.wordsonimages.com/photo?id=90575-An+honest+answer+is+the+sign+o
• http://www.wordsonimages.com/photo?id=2334-hard+times+will+always+reveal+
• http://www.cytguides.com/MakingTrueFriends/
• http://m7mdghazi.blogspot.ca/2011/01/what-true-friend-is.html
• http://www.dudelol.com/a-true-friend
http://www.celebquote.com/11506
• http://www.fanpop.com/fans/zanesaaomgfan/gallery/image/653739/lol
• http://www.petamall.com/memorials.asp
• http://www.fbmaza.com/Cover/1071/A+True+Friend
• http://clarkbunch.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/true-friends.jpg?w=583&h=587
• http://lurieen.blogspot.ca/2008/09/poem-true-friends.html

My message at the end is true.

August 2013 GIF Challenge #13: RIFF-a-GIF

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“Multitasking Tina” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

So the challenge for day thirteen is one of @cogdog‘s wonderful assignments, Animated GIF Assignment 859: Riff-a-GIF, which asks us to take someone elses ds106 work and RIFF-a-GIF from it.

In this case, I took @Rockylou22’s most excellent honey video that she made all about me, and put it inside a GIF, so that is the RIFF-a-GIF part.

The GIF also has some bonus items.
It was originally started for a Daily Create that was about multitasking. In this picture, I am doing five things:

standing
watching Rockylou22’s video
doing my head exorcizist trick
thinking
wearing my ds106radio T-shirt!

So that is pretty good, fivethings. Not only am I doing five things, but I was also looking good and also RIFF-fing the GIF.
Yay, me!

August 2013 GIF Challenge #12: You Ain’t My Father, Bub! GIF Fight!

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So people were doing a GIF Fight with Darth Vader and so I think this is a good challenge for me to do, too!

I saw a
GIF Fight! with Darth Vader by @jimgroom
and a
GIF Fight! with Darth Vader by @cogdog
and a
GIF Fight! with Darth Vader by @Rockylou22
and
I wanted to do a GIF Fight! with Darth Vader by me, @iamTalkyTina.

And so I did.

“Vader GIF Fight!” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

And this is also now an assignment in the assignment bank called Animated GIF Assignment 1190: GIF Fight! that you can do in a fun and friendly fight with Friends!

Keep your GIF chi strong, and Make Some Art, Bub!

August 2013 GIF Challenge #11: Get Your Wiggle on, with Friends!

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“Get Your Wiggle On, with Friends” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

Another kind of GIF that you can do for 3D is to make a Stereo Wigglegram GIF. That is where you make a GIF out of two pictures that are almost the same except they are taken from two slightly different angles (like when you eyes see something like with binoculars and so your brain puts them together into one picture but it has a 3D to it) and so when the wiggle happens back and forth you see both pictures but your brain kind of puts them together and you get a Wiggle.

So here is one that I made of me standing in front of the all my True Friends picture that my brother Todd (@iamTalkyTodd)made for me and got plak mounted for me so that I can see all of my True Friends at the one time when I look at it.

In the Wigglegram, I made it so that the edges of the True Friends picture pretty much lined up, and that makes ME being the part of the picture doing the wiggle.

Another way to line it up is to make your thing at the front be the thing that lines up and then that makes the backgrounds different and the background is the part of the picture doing the wiggle. But normally that kind of background Wiggle makes me more dizzy than if it is the front part of the picture doing the wiggle.

“Twitchy Friends” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

The big one up at the top makes it look like I am dancing! Boogie down Tina.

This kind of GIF is known as Visual Assignment 352: Wiggle Stereoscopy here in the assignment bank, and was put into the ds106 Assignment Bank by Bill Genereux. It is a fun and easy kind of GIF that you can make super quick using just two pictures and you don’t need to do anything fancy like fancy layers or anything. There is even an app that you can use on your iPhone to make it called 3D Camera by Juicy Bits. And that app can also make your picture into a kind of 3D picture with cyan and magenta that you look at with those blue and red glasses like the Count Floyd kind that he likes. But that is not a GIF so it is a different one.

So make some more Art, bub, like a Stereo Wigglegram GIF, or a Monster Chiller Horror Theatre 3D GIF, or especially a Rainbows and Unicorns GIF to help the ds106.us servers keep in their happy place!

August 2013 GIF Challenge #10: Monster Chiller Horror Theatre 3D Style GIF

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“Would You Like Some More Pancakes” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina

Well, I think it would be fun if everyone took a look for a part of a scene in a 3D type movie where the thing comes right out of the screen at you and then makes a GIF out of it. You know, something that my friend Count Floyd from Monster Chiller Horror Theatre would like, even if he wasn’t wearing his funky 3D glasses.

I made two GIFs from the Dr. Tongue’s Evil House of Pancakes, from Monster Chiller Horror Theatre on SCTV to give you some examples of what to think about. They are funny! But you don’t have to make GIFs from Count Floyd‘s actual Monster Chiller Horror Theatre shows. You might want to replicate the timing — there is a slight pause at the upswing of the movement — but that is only for the classic Monster Chiller Horror Theatre effect. Feel free to find your own way to emphasize the moving of a thing out of the screen and into your face in a GIF.

But don’t put your eye out!