“Are You Nervous Yet, Erich?” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina
Well, you can’t see the beads of sweat moving on Erich’s head, but his eyes sure look shifty scared.
I won’t repeat what I was saying to him over the phone from the garage, but it sure gave him a new respect for me!
For The Daily Create, tdc1984, Nervous!.
“Iron circular stair. Plate 425-N.” by J.L. Mott Iron Works is licensed under CC0 1.0
#TFW you see your first stairs of the day, and they are all curvy and swoopy and special and full of potential for all kinds of mischief and enjoyment and fun, and you get a tingly feeling that tells you today is going to be one of those fantastic days where everything is just going to go your way and you will have such a fine time, so you hop up and head out to start the morning with glee in your steps and a smile on your face and singing happy songs inside your head as you look for new #TrueFriends and nobody makes any comments about your height or says the Mean Word at you.
This was one for The Daily Create, tdc1982 which says “ZOMG ROTL art! Create a TIL, TFW, ICYMI type tweet for what is going on in classic art.”
The picture that I used is “Iron circular stair. Plate 425-N.” and it is by J.L. Mott Iron Works and it is is licensed under CC0 1.0 which is called the attribution of it, which we also had to do as part of the instructions in today’s The Daily Create.
“Portmeirion Flyover,” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina
Well, I was trying to get some nice maps working today, but you will have to settle for one that is a flyover type. There are some details that this GIF does not show (not to mention the Secret Tunnel Passages layer and @iamTalkyTina Hideouts maps that I was going to include) but they will have to wait for another day.
I tried to use the Map Stack thing but it didn’t seem to be able to find The Village, so I went to my old standby, Google Maps. Then I added some other information that I had on hand using my Photoshop, and then I put it into this GIF.
It would be a bit of a hard thing to connect the 3D map upstairs to the 2D one here, but you can use your imagination and pretend that I did it.
Also, if you have a hankering for The Village, here it is from a slightly different angle.
You can read all about some of my time here in The Village , and you can check out Prisoner106.us, which was a ds106 one from the summer of 2015.
“Finger Man, of illogical follies, see?” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina
So The Daily Create of yesterday, #tdc1980, said to make an Art about the fallacious reasoning of the politicians. So I looked at all the things that the Finger Man says when he is not sticking his finger up at the peoples, and I decided to make an Art of him out of all of the logical fallacies symbols. This is what they all look like.
Logical Fallacies poster, from logicalfallacyis.com/poster
It is always a nice time when someone goes to all the trouble to put icons to all the different categories of something, and so I took all of those 24 icons and and then made a mosaic out of the famous Finger Man picture.
Plus, like him, it is a black and white picture with no grey, but it also goes flip flop back and forth like he does. But if you look close, you can see that he is made up of illogical follies, see?
Here is a bigger image of my Finger Man picture, in case you want a big PNG one to read all the codes without the flashing.
Get Off My Case
If you are on my case because this is a yesterday one, well I was doing it yesterday and had all the little icons in layers in my Photoshop, but when I saved it for supper I saved it as a .png, they were all lost when I went back. So I had to start all over. Plus, those icons are tiny.
But How Did you Do It, Tina, You Say?
Well, first I was using an app on my iPad called Photo Mosaica, and it kind of worked, but I needed more grains of granularity to really see the scowl on his face.
“I need more Grains of Granularity,” image from Photo Mosaica on my iPad, by @iamTalkyTina.
So then I looked on my App Store for my computer, and found a different one called Mosaik with a k, and it let me do things like how many (which makes them smaller) and background go away, and use some or use them all. Plus I also tried “Weighted,” but it made them weird.
So all of this was a fun experiment, and it was fun to learn to use new apps to make Art.
One day I will make a picture of me made up of all my #TrueFriends. Because you are who your friends are.
Just like Finger Man is made of illogical follies, see?
My hit song was re-released today, just for special, because The Daily Create, tdc1979 is asking for us to share our favourite song of #peace for the #PeaceMusicPlaylist.
If you want the full story of this great song, as well as the lyrics to sing along with, you can check out the original posting, Tina Don’t Like The Mean Word.
Enjoy!
“Nordic Leaders Summon Tina,” animatedGIF by @iamTalkyTina
I have a special kit available by my email order business for just those times when #TrueFriends need to get in touch for an Emergency. It is called iamTalkyTina Emergency Beacon.
I had a special call come in just last week from some special #TrueFriends over in the old countries. Of course I grabbed my Go Bag and was wheels up in my jet within 30 minutes.
This is picture that was in the news of when they turned on the beacon. For The Daily Create, tdc1978, “What are the Nordic Ministers Summoning?”
The Daily Create, tdc1977 asks us to share what Obama Might Say about ds106. Of course, he would say all the good things that we would expect him to say!
“á la latté Tina,” photograph by @iamTalkyTina
Well, it was so nice this morning as I was reading up on my favourite web site and having my mid-morning lattë at the Starbucks that I saw that today’s The Daily Create #tdc1976 was a lattê one. I don’t think I have done a latté one for The Daily Create before, and so it was just a synchronistic thing that I was having one when it was made.
Well, because it was a special day for a The Daily Create lattç, I went back to the Barista person and told them it was okay to let me use their machine to make my own special topping, and if I do say so, it turned out quite well, and even looks like me!
In case you don’t have a way with the Barista or if you don’t have the skills, then you might want to try to game The Daily Create by doing yours with an image editor. There are tons of instructions out there on the Internets about how to fake a lattè picture with your computer.
Well,bye!
“Hulka-Tina Encouragement Selfie,” animatedGIF by @iamTalkyTina
I have done the Hulka selfie one before, plus I just made my 30-Day Challenge #30DayTDC badge using it, so I had to remix it again for today’s The Daily Create #tdc1975 “Give us your toughest Sergeant Hulka face, in a selfie,” so I made an encouragement one for all the peoples who are going for their @iamTalkyTina Certification in Creatorist badge.
Keep going, every day. You can do it and earn your badge.
“60,000 Times? Reward Poster,” animated GIF by @iamTalkyTina
My #StillTrueFriend Alan Levine (@cogdog, on Twitter) has written lots of times about the “your brain can process an image 60,000 times faster than text” factoid that keeps popping up in peoples’ keynotes without any kind of attribution. For today’s The Daily Create, tdc1974, He wants some folks to undertake a little mission when they are at a conference and go bug the person who seems to be the first person on record as having “said it,” and ask him where he got his words.
Alan is offering up $120 in cash incentive. Will you be the person who takes him up on the offer and gets the low down on this academical myth?
