doonaldjtrump.com

I guess it's too late to mention now, but it started freezing for me about halfway through. Perhaps a lot of people are watching it all at once? Great work though.

The soundtrack continued while the clips started freezing and at first I wasn't sure if it was intentional.

i've only heard from one or two other people about skipping and freezing (although that probably means there are a bunch more people experiencing it that didn't say anything :-/), but looking at analytics, it does look like it's loading more slowly as more and more people use the site simultaneously. at peak it was around 150 people on at the same time, and at any given moment it's around 30-40.

Looks amazing though.

Okay, I finally had a chance to watch this on an actual computer and I'm so fucking tense right now I can't even tell you. Magnificent, horrifying job, KM.

this is so wild, i saw this thread pop up the other day, didn't check it out until a friend shared the link on his fb. just read the op. excellent work, KM!

seeing this shared more and more on my fb & twitter feeds

thanks, and that's nice to hear! the traffic has kind of tailed off over the last 24 hours, despite getting short write-ups in various places (a free weekly newspaper in athens called LiFO, hunger magazine, unrated, a few german websites (nerdcore and urbanshit). definitely can't complain, though - it's gotten about 20,000 visitors since monday, and most of those have just been through facebook/twitter/word of mouth.

“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new.”

I think this site does this with the familiar clips. we see trump so much now he often seems unreal. this deepened my sense of his reality, and the reality of the nation that elected him.

awesome work.

I saw many of the 'familiar' clips for the first time here, bcz not having TV i succeeded in avoiding as much election/DJT video as possible last year.

As horrifying as this is there's something beautifully cathartic in seeing the Spencer clip when yr not expecting it.

sorry to ask for testing help again, but after receiving some very useful javascript modifications from a kind guy from germany, we eliminated the gap between the clips and replaced it with a very quick crossfade.

i'm wondering if performance takes a hit - if the clips are slow to load in the first place, if there is audio/video lag with the new version, and if there is, if it's worse than that encountered on the version of the website i'm currently using. it seems to work really well for me (chrome, average broadband connection, os x 10.10.5) but i just wanted to check with a few other people before deploying the new version.

if anyone has a spare minute to try it out, here's the new version: http://doonaldjtrump.com/update.html

the contrast of all these clips w/ the obama one w/ him getting in the helicopter is stunning and makes me feel miserable

they both work totally fine for me karl xp

(i have super fast broadband here though)

great! thanks for checking. i will wait 10 more minutes in case it totally broke the site for someone else, and then i'll switch over. that's how website testing works, right? it'll have to do

the contrast of all these clips w/ the obama one w/ him getting in the helicopter is stunning and makes me feel miserable

― marcos, Thursday, February 9, 2017 1:31 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. It's like watching someone close the lid on your coffin.

Working well here! It's an amazing piece of work.

thanks chuck! and others with kind words before, of course.

ok, switching over to the more seamless version of the site now

i wrote to a bunch of places last week letting them know about the website, offering to send images or answer questions if they were interested writing about it, etc. the obvious places - boingboing, dangerous minds, hyperallergenic, colossal, etc. none of them responded, although chicagoist did publish something about yesterday (using a crappy screenshot image even though my message offered to send a much better quality original image - guess I should have just attached it to the email but I was afraid it would tag my email as spam)

anyway, i just checked boingboing, in the back of my mind hoping maybe they wrote up something about it, and for 3 glorious seconds i was sure they did. they used my main doonaldjtrump image - the one with three overlapping jiggly trump faces that appears on the splash page before the sequence begins - for this article: http://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/team-trump-is-imploding.html. to add insult to injury, the image is manipulated (it appears to be jiggling at .03 seconds per frame as opposed to the slower frame rate of the original), renamed (trump-stimulant.gif), and uncredited. the uncredited thing isn't a huge deal - it happens all the time on the internet, and I'll just write them a quick note asking them to credit me - but it was more just the happy rush of thinking that they wrote up an article on it, only to see that it was...not that all.

boo hoo hoo, life is terrible, woe is me, the end

aw man that's pretty lame of them. :(

>:(

Can't see the image there now, have they removed it?

that's annoying Karl.

FWIW I checked the site out for the first time last night and I was transfixed for a solid 20 minutes. It's a splendid bit of satire (if you can call it that) and such an effective idea. Great work!

uncredited happens all the time but for a site like that it is a very shitty move

i wrote to the author last night, and she explained that she thought it was created in-house, which typically doesn't receive an image credit. thing is, that's probably right - i can totally see why she thought that.

here's the original, which i posted back in 2015:

http://68.media.tumblr.com/27ebb5193e778baba5d25f1ed74a2bcb/tumblr_nudwy4Xz8P1qdmmiqo2_r1_500.gif

here's the one that they used, not just for yesterday's article but for another back in february and another in july 2016:

http://i.imgur.com/7BwVPPh.gif

it might be hard to tell (it depends on your browser), but the second one is much faster. so i guess sometime back in 2016 someone there modified my original - something that i do all the time myself, with other people's images and video, although i try to link back to the original content when appropriate - and then it was in BB's "in-house" image bin. so i can see how she could just search her in-house images for trump-related images and use it, without realizing there was an issue. i wish they would have continued to use it actually! i didn't ask for them to take it down, just requested an image credit. oh well.

yours has better wobble.

I have a photographer friend (snapped most major pop stars of the '60s and '70s) who complains loudly every time his pics are used w/out credit, and it's often.

Morbs if he own the rights he can ask pretty much any price he wants post-facto

I love when Morbs drops that he knows something/someone and immediately follows it up with a clarification of how important it is

Well you know, we've all got cameras in our pockets.

Yr pic doesnt seem to be on that article at all anymore? That seems worse than not being credited, somehow! :/

yeah, they took it down and replaced it with something else. i tried to be polite in my message, but i guess i came off the wrong way

i would imagine they yanked it from the pool rather than having to determine if they could use it fairly, even if you said as such. lame!

wow, this is great work guy

I especially love the soothing minimalist underscore, which transported me back to the AT&T advertisements of my boyhood in the late 1990s

Karl try to get Vic Berger to tweet a link - it's right up his (and his fans') alley

https://twitter.com/vicbergeriv

xp Yeah it's perfect. If Trump is satirical teflon, then just show him as he is, plain and simple. This is much more effective than anyone donning a wig and talking about tiny hands.

This thread reminding me that 2017 needs an updated EVIL GUIDE DOG.

I kind of want to see a version with cheery music swapped in.

yeah, KM, I am pretty sure that I have seen yr image in BoingBoing tweets over the past year. didn't realize it was yours!