It's unnecessary ZS (not to mention perhaps undesirable due to my poor picture) - Dillon is fairly chipper and cone-free now. :)
― What I cannot bear is "normality." (dowd), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
i'm sorry dowd! i worked on your pic a bit last week and got absolutely nowhere...and then i never got back to it. *says 'i am the woyst' in the most ridiculous early 20th century NYC accent imaginable*
― reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
i haven't made much of anything recently, except for this earlier today:
http://31.media.tumblr.com/a60ac0a2bd714fa2aa23e27205de2513/tumblr_mtzyb1qoBN1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
thanks govt shutdown!
Thanks ZS (love the new pic, btw - what's the source?)
― What I cannot bear is "normality." (dowd), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
it's a link that a few ilxors shared earlier today on facebook: http://horrorhomework.com/blog/2013/09/a-collection-of-creepy-vintage-halloween-photos/
(btw - ilx milk carton - robyn? does she go by a different name now?)
― reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
ZS I have a *terrible idea* for you -- take today's Daily News cover and make it so that the abraham lincoln chair boehner is sitting on is more toilet-like and have his pants coming down and some kind of *FAAART* type text noise flashing, or something along those lines
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
that is truly a *terrible idea*
what if i just replace it with the real footage i've obtained of boehner pooping irl?
― reckless woo (Z S), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
woah i have that 'Heaven and How to Get There' postcard for reals
― No more kisses (sunny successor), Thursday, 10 October 2013 22:15 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b70b7f4f7141e654b862f224296cfdb/tumblr_mumnw7cJBs1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 13 October 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
hey, stevie d asked me something on facebook about optimizing gifs, and i thought i'd repost my answer here in case A) it's of use to anyone here and/or B) someone wants to suggest other tips for optimizing gifs for file size, or i'm deeply wrong about something, or whatever:
One way to optimize in Photoshop is just to give it an approximate size and let it do it for you. In the upper-right corner of the "Save for Web" box, there's an "Optimize to File Size" option you can choose.
The problem is that PS tends to make gifs look like shit when it auto-optimizes, imo. In my experience it usually knocks down the overall colors a bunch, whereas I usually want to keep as many of the 256 colors as I can.
The best way to optimize it depends on what you're working with. If you're working with design kind of stuff - a few different solid colors, not too many gradients - then you can knock down the overall colors to 32 or so and it won't harm the quality much, and it'll help with the file size a bunch. If you're working with a real life image - like from a movie or something - with lots of different shades and colors, you can't really knock it down beneath 128 colors without sacrificing a lot of quality.
I'm running out of time (headed out the door in a sec), sorry. But I guess my standard tip to drastically reduce file size is to start by bumping up the "Lossy" value to something low, like 5 (out of 100), and then lowering the "Dither" value to something like 90 (out of 100). Adjusting those two values even just a little bit sometimes drops the file size significantly. So where a 0/100 Lossy gif might be 1.5 MB, a 5/100 Lossy gif might be 1.0 MB. but then a 10/100 might be just 950 kb, 15/100 might be 925kb, etc. My point is that for some reason the first few bits of Lossy value that you introduce have a much more significant effect on file size than continuing to add Loss.
So if you need to reduce file size, start by doing just a little Loss, a little dither, and see if that helps. Generally the gif will still look acceptably close to the original full quality version, and sometimes at half the file size. That protip comes with a ton of caveats and doesn't always work, but it commonly does help out so give it a try.
If the file is still too large, try reducing the size of the image just a little. Going from 500x500 to 400x400 makes a huge difference because you're going from an area of 250,000 to 160,000 - a reduction of about 36%.
Finally, of course, think about removing a frame or two, especially if one of those frames uses colors that are really different from the rest of the frames. The more consistent you keep the colors in the frames that are used in the gif, the more efficient the optimization will be.
IMO!
― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, 14 October 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b70b7f4f7141e654b862f224296cfdb/tumblr_mumsmchLoJ1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/8028b39e8b15b4926bbf968346496bdc/tumblr_mv92i2g6I21qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/87d25711c030f3f714003ef83a3e40fb/tumblr_mvo0kt5KgH1qdmmiqo3_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/a6bbbfc92c6cf597f51b166ba8f08447/tumblr_mvo155sJHt1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/6ecade61d80ff08bcd33299a24b35fc0/tumblr_mvo2voNeIo1qdmmiqo1_400.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/097afacf08796cf06e62a617bdea12e2/tumblr_mvo447ubMu1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 03:26 (ten years ago) link
is there a tumblr where u post all your best, trippiest gifs?
― Treeship, Sunday, 3 November 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
weinventyou
but it's basically just this threadi have no editor, i just post something whenever i finally manage to get off my lazy ass and do something
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
sweet. i really love this one. http://24.media.tumblr.com/4c56a1a62cf804c648f99fa796354de9/tumblr_msgypiXdSM1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― Treeship, Sunday, 3 November 2013 03:39 (ten years ago) link
thanks!
http://24.media.tumblr.com/fe764be9a1b8243156605349b8b02a02/tumblr_mvo6d580Ko1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 3 November 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
http://cachemonet.com/
― schwantz, Thursday, 14 November 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
banging track
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:35 (ten years ago) link
Should we all pitch in and get ZS one of these?
― schwantz, Friday, 15 November 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Looks awesome
― badgers moved the goalposts (dowd), Saturday, 16 November 2013 00:38 (ten years ago) link
lol, i love the third one down (the deer shitting out a human) on this page: http://www.giphoscope.com/#!collection/ck0q
― reckless woo (Z S), Sunday, 17 November 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
http://googlyify.2013.nodeknockout.com/
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 03:32 (ten years ago) link
http://googlyify.s3.amazonaws.com/AQnd5qjz_/render.gif
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
http://googlyify.s3.amazonaws.com/AEYvPbg8G/render.gif
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/i2UaGfV.gif
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 7 December 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/d4f64e062816afa8db07d383aaee1360/tumblr_mxjwc6DdKF1qdmmiqo2_400.gif
― Karl Malone, Monday, 9 December 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
clean loop
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 December 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/05bb16f85032fa4faf07e7b2ff82235a/tumblr_mxrquu0YxR1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
(for conferencecall.biz)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 13 December 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/f48be2be687ef1218c9ab42fabc2c7bc/tumblr_myhmtpS4sL1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/c27f2ff137c36aebbb84f524d8b1ca7c/tumblr_myhkhsmsGZ1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/9763fcd81eb71ec6dfb5574cf8becb8d/tumblr_myhkxgnWYY1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://24.media.tumblr.com/cb23d05aa54de48cf62b45f73363d152/tumblr_mxvi36JswR1qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://31.media.tumblr.com/8a18ab8cb412f434ee3c8beb4721ae91/tumblr_my7y9fpXs21qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 December 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Oh, off-topic, but it reminds me of the greatest youtube video of 2013: Acquiring business
― Øystein, Friday, 27 December 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link
not at all off-topic! the last few are all for conferencecall.biz (a sneak preview is there right now, but the site will go live on Jan 2nd), and at one point i included a slow motion high-five from the stock footage you just linked to as one of the clips to be included. i took it out, though, because i think it's too well known and i want everything that people see on conferencecall.biz to be new. but that's one of the vibes i'm shooting for - sort of surreal people making $140,000 but with impostor syndrome
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 December 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
sorry to toot my own horn but i'm really happy you referenced that. :)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 December 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
Oh, hah, that sounds great! I recall seeing you looking for advice in the programming thread. Hah, I love how the sounds on the page give it a kind of "Riget" (Trier's "Kingdom Hospital") vibe.
― Øystein, Friday, 27 December 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/9033447339fa67f72375ce0b6061b35f/tumblr_myw8jjwbW51qdmmiqo1_500.gifhttp://25.media.tumblr.com/7c307d89682c5f8d1047d4ab178ec6c8/tumblr_mz1mdq2DTl1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
i'm shooting for a gif per day in 2014. here's tomorrow's:
https://31.media.tumblr.com/2e075bb25b37e0147dc273547c680238/tumblr_mz25r2x1wL1qdmmiqo2_500.gif
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:08 (ten years ago) link
hey karl here is a website with content u may enjoy
http://www.videoblocks.com/
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
for instance:
http://www.videoblocks.com/videos/details/slow-motion-gargling-milk-closeup/
http://www.videoblocks.com/videos/details/truck-dumping-garbage/
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
whoa, that's a great resource, thanks! i've been working in stock footage more frequently, but usually just ripping them from youtube videos since most stock footage sites want people to pay for some crazy reason
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
omg conferencecall.biz is amazing beyond my wildest dreams
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
yeah that one is a "subscription-based" format, not sure wtf that means but it looks like they have a 7-day free trial
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
xpost
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
nice, looks like i'm going to get to be a featured "gif artist" on giphy.com! unfortunately there are about 71 other gif artists, and they're listed in alphabetic order so i'm going to be near the bottom (weinventyou), but still pretty cool!
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/a045c5d462ce88e814426ff4f5a99643/tumblr_n0527cVLI91qdmmiqo1_500.gif
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
Ooooh, I like that one! Have you done anything with the codex seraphinianus yet?This one seems ripe for animation:http://archkiosk.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/76191-codex_seraphinianus.jpg%3Fw%3D640
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
you know, i keep meaning to do something with it and i haven't yet. maybe tomorrow! (lawyer enters: "25 to 60 days")
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 01:28 (ten years ago) link
wait until you have enough time to do every single page then upload them all at once imo
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
That's not a bad idea...wonder how many pages there are?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
About 400, but many of them are filled with only his made-up script.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
Well it would get u on boing boing fer shur
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 05:34 (ten years ago) link