06 Aug 2014
*browsing tumblr like OMG that picture is moving*
I’ve tried it a few times. Making GIFs in Photoshop is pretty hard. You have to import and trim the video, then deal with the timeline and frames and everything. And to do those sweet cinemagraph things you need to mess about with masking layers and often times it all gets a bit too much, and you cry.
Also I understand there are a few sites online that let you make GIFs, but they always slap their big ugly logo on to every frame, so they’re pretty good candidates for avoidance most of the time.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was something like this?
Well good news, it actually does exist! It’s this little program called GifCam which simplifies the whole process a lot. You can download it directly from here and check it out.
And here’s one I prepared earlier too:
ps. unfortunately GifCam only available for Windows right now.
03 Aug 2014
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Curiouser and curiouser, so said Alice as she telescoped to nine feet tall. She ate her cake and you can too! Ever wanted to blog like a hacker but didn’t want to mess around installing complicated command line ruby apps and all that junk?
Well, you’re in luck! Create your new blog in just three easy steps.
- Fork a copy of this blog on GitHub (you have an account of course)
- Rename your resulting repository to
username.github.io (replacing username with your username of course)
- That’s it, pretty much! (you’ll probably want to edit/delete/add your own posts in the
_posts directory and customise the _config.yaml file of course)
Start sharing your new URL!
You can edit all of the site files directly on GitHub’s web interface, or else clone a copy locally, and hack away. You might also wish to satiate your curiosity further by trying out some other Jekyll themes, Hyde for example.
So anyway I’m about to begin reading this book, which strangely enough, I have never read before. ‘Till next time.
01 Aug 2014
I never give you my pillow
I only send you my invitations
—The Beatles
Second post, keeping it very brief as I have to be up tomorrow at 5am. Today, helping out at my old workplace in Windsor. Tomorrow is their annual fundraising Art Market event, and I have agreed to open at dawn—for purely nostalgic reasons.
Helping with the setup today, a few hours heavy lifting the likes I hadn’t seen in a long long while. Summoned superhuman strength somehow. A strange feeling being back.
I can even remember the very first Art Market we had, so many years ago. The sun coming up over the horizon to the east, a thin fog hanging low. I can smell the brisk air, almost, as though it was yesterday.
But it isn’t. We push forward. Laden with the weight of a thousand yesterdays, carried a long time.
Tomorrow (variations on a theme), is another day.
31 Jul 2014
“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
― L. Frank Baum
It’s been a long time since I rock ‘n’ rolled an actual blog.
Back before tweeting into the void became the rage, and all those mindless hours reblogging obscenities on tumblr, the internet was a simpler place. I chronically chronicled a full year in the infancy of Blogger; I ran bleeding edge subversions of WordPress installations, now horribly outdated.
This time I’m stripping it right down. Currently typing this sentence into a text editor, and using Jekyll to generate static HTML code pushed through GitHub Pages. A touch inconsequential though really.
The future unfolds. We are all travellers in time.
In forging ahead new pathways are formed. For the past few days I have been learning this song on the piano—a slow process as I am pretty terrible still—and day after day, note after painstaking note I can almost feel the neurons falling into line.
And in this way we too press on; we align. Pathways to the past. Branching untold futures.
A new dawning every day.
