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Haunting at the Willington Mill⤴

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Today’s TDC says

The Strange Company blog describes a series of reports of ghost action in the early 1800s at an old mill.

Talking ghosts? Eerie. Lacking any recently reports create some art – generated imagery, drawing or write a story that describes what modern haunting is happening there (real ghosts don’t just post other images found in google).

I downloaded the image, drew a ghost and added it to make this gif:

Cagney Van Gogh⤴

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Cagney Van Gogh
Cagney Van Gogh flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

A quick TDC today as I’m being plagued by idiots busy at work at the moment. For today’s create I wanted to blend together one of my cats with Vincent, so I found a pic of Cagney and inserted it into a PPT slide with the image of Van Gogh used for the TDC. Then I just played around with transparencies to merge the two faces. I’m quite pleased with the way the eyes have aligned.

Do I wish it was better – yes, but I didn’t have time to play in GIMP today. Still, only 1989 days till I can retire!

Onnotation⤴

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I see everybody’s annotation. I applaud Terry’s innotation. Here I raise you all with my onnotation.

How I did this:

  1. Screen capped Terry’s post and saved it to my PC
  2. Drew a canary bird and scanned it to my PC
  3. Opened both in GIMP
  4. Cut around the tweety bird with the lasso tool
  5. Pasted as a layer into the screen cap image, positioned where I wanted it and exported the image with a new file name
  6. Moved the tweety bird and repeated, again changing the file name (onnotation1, onnotation2 …).
  7. I did this six times in total.
  8. Closed all the windows
  9. Opened all of the (six) images of bird-on-blog that I had saved as layers
  10. Exported as gif, tweeking the settings to get the animation to the speed I wanted (I chose a 200 millisecond delay).
  11. Saved to my PC.

Abstract, repeat, emote⤴

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This post is inspired by a phrase Amy Burvall said in the latest netnarr hangout :

  • Abstraction
  • Repetition
  • Emotion

I took one of Susan’s pictures and abstracted the star from it by using Paint:

Then I used the star to create nine images – first with one star in a white square, then two, then three, right up to nine:

Next I launched GIMP and opened all nine files as layers, exported as a gif, and uploaded the result to Giphy.com

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I’m still thinking about how to represent the emotions on top of this …