York College Does DS106, Well I Say
On DS106 this assignment required creating a animated gif of your favorite artist. Michael Jackson was the king of pop. Remember the time was one of my favorite songs that he wrote. His style of dancing was one of a kind. As a child my parents used to play his music all the time.
I believe the scenario works perfectly to place the “Where do babies come from?” question. Parents tend to react this way when children ask things related to this topic, and children’s response is basically to insist on them in order to get an answer from parents. Based on how kids are so curious and determined in getting what they want.
Highlight of this GIF:
The clip comes from ABC’S TV show Modern Family, the characters on it are Lily and Alex. Furthermore, the episode itself does have to do with what i just said couple of lines before, Lily goes around through the episode asking, “Where do babies come from?”. Everyone kind of avoids answering and reacts in a different way but it is mostly because she focused on the younger relatives than the adults, but the scene does kind of reflect a parents reaction.
In general the TV show is amazingly funny, so if you feel like you need to relax and laugh a little it might be a great way to accomplish that by watching the show.
This is just a piece of Max B’s interview on Come Up DVD years ago. When he is accused of being broke he likes to stunt with a little cash counting. 
Halt and Catch Fire is an AMC series that dramatizes the early history of the personal computer revolution. It covers a texas based start-up which builds there own PC with it’s own operating system. In that era computers were still very delicate and very much a hobbist’s tool. hence the explosions. This version below was made from Imgur’s Youtube video to GIF tool, with a few frames subsequently removed in Photoshop.
Four form this Youtube series intro.
via GifTournament Hype Gifs This is a start to a hopeful series of posts on how I Grok GIFs in which I make GIFs for and explain a particular GIF type, culture, or phenomena. Last week I made it through the first round of GifTournament Battle #4! I’m a contender. I can make rad GIFs! But what’s GifTournament? Why blog […]
Last week I made it through the first round of GifTournament Battle #4! I’m a contender. I can make rad GIFs! But what’s GifTournament? Why blog about it? Well it’s this thing on Reddit… actually it is:
The Gif Tournament is a bracket-based tournament, similar in style to the NCAA March Madness tournament. Every few months, 64 of the Internet’s best gif makers go head-to-head, competing in single-elimination rounds until a champion is crowned. For more information,click here.
I’m a relatively light redditor, but I track and have contributed to a few of the different GIF subreddits: r/upvotedgifs, r/MyPeopleNeedMe, r/wheredidthesodago, r/behindthegifs, and of course the reddit gif mothership – r/gifs (came so close to the front page once).
But when I first discovered r/GifTournament last year when it hosted it’s first battle, I thought it was a really cool idea to have thematic challenges to frame the rounds. Everyone makes something in that theme and then you’re paired off against your competitor. They do a good job of trying to keep the gif maker’s popularity out of it by having all submissions anonymous. For three days, any redditor can vote for one or the other (or both?). A vote counts as an upvote (no downvotes) and whichever GIF gets the most points in the pairing moves to the next round.
The GIF makers that participate have some serious digital imaging skills and are basically great joke writers too. The depth of knowledge of popular culture they lean on (and the raid arrays filled with movies and tv shows), is pretty incredible. This was my favorite GIF from the winner of the first battle, u/MarkovManiac.
Hey, wanna see the most annoying gif in the world? – MarkovManiac Battle #1 Round #2
The rotoscoping to place the ‘AHHHHHHHHH’ behind Mike Starr’s head is crazy difficult. I’m not sure how it was done, but I’ve just begun to teach myself to use the rotoscoping tool in After Effects. I’ve wanted to have a reason to finally focus on learning AE so when Battle #4 rolled around, and with such a lovely invitation, I thought why not.
The submission pre-seeding round is open. You can submit anything and the top 64 GIFs make it to the tournament. I should have been tracking the tournament more closely as I narrowly entered by the submission deadline. But I made it! This was mine.
The Wrath of the GIF
I thought a little Ricardo Montalbán would give me a shot, as well as meta reference to reddit with the blue downvote. Last chance to turn that Wrath into an upvote, kill everyone with Genesis! I received my message which confirmed I got in, but then I saw the bracket. I was last. But I got in! But I was 64th out of 64 competing against the number one seed. So I’ll make a GIF about that!
The first round theme was Kevin Spacey. I’ve watched some Spacey, Usual Suspects and American Beauty, also I’d watched the first two seasons of House of Cards. My first thought was to play on the moment where Mena Suvari admits it’s her first time, but it turned out to be much racier than I remembered. But in re-watching the movie I came across the final scene in which Lester Burnham is killed and from that I made this:
Oh Man, I just squeaked into the GifTournament
In the film Lester is staring at a photo of his family and is finally perfectly happy with his life, then BLAM! And as the blood drips from his head he’s literally smiling. So I wanted to show my contentment with having just made the tournament, turning the photo into what looks like an iPad viewing the tournament bracket. And the drips become downvotes/upvotes, envisioning Lester’s karma in the afterlife.
Crazily enough I won my first GIF battle, beating the number one seed preggit! I was so fun to see the reaction in the post first round discussion. It’s a really cool community and I’d love to discuss with the mods at some point how they started the tournament.
For now though it’s on to round two, with the theme ‘America.’ Submissions were due last night at 10PM and voting began one hour later. Not sure if I can continue my Cinderella story, but it’s been a fun ride so far. And cool to see lots of amazing work by so many accomplished GIF makers.
