Batch Glitch Animation with Free Software

Here's how I made a 20mb GIF that is impossible to upload to most free image hosting services. This is using 10.6.8 on an old MacBook Pro but nothing here is platform specific. At the end of the day, you're just treating a sequence of image files as text and round-tripping animation.

Export video as an image stream.
I used MPEGStreamclip and saved a big folder of JPEGs. File>Export to other format. Select 'Image Sequence' from the drop down menu. The problem with this software is that you need to pay extra to extract DVD video frames, otherwise it's free. At this point I also made a reference version of the folder (copy/paste in Finder).

Use a text editor to do folder-wide find/replace commands
My favorite text editor on OSX is the free Smultron clone Fraise, but that actually crashed when I tried to do a find/replace on ~400 files all roughly 500K in size. Thankfully there is another program out there called MassReplaceIt that does this quite well. For a person comfortable with a command line text editor this would also be pretty easy to do, but then the screenshots wouldn't look as pretty:

Turn it into a GIF, or some other video file. 
I like this option because you don't have to deal with more image artifacts but you could go straight to any video format with the right tools. Did it with GIFfun.

TL;DR
MPEGStreamclip, MassReplaceIt, GIFfun—in that order.

I really hope this is true

“You have this incredibly innovative machine but it looks very traditional.” The last word delivered like a stab…”There are design firms out there that could come up with things we’ve never thought of,” Jobs continued, “things that would make you shit in your pants.”

via http://www.zurb.com/article/793/what-steve-jobs-is-like-in-a-meeting

Repper is a fun 2 or 3 minutes of your online time

Repper Studios


found via LifeHacker.com

I've been looking for something like this for years. If only they did rotational symmetry as well. Also digging the Creative Commons licensing on the software ;)

BiblioOdyssey is Nifty

I know, I know, another low-content post. I really like the posts going on at BiblioOdyssey though, so you should check it out!

Instant Gravy

Just found a great blog I wanted to share. Hope he keeps it updated!

Here there be self promotion

A new blog-o-mine. I'm thinking an Art Nouveau inspired design for this one.

Rumors of my Eventual Website

In the spirit of WWDC 2008 today, I thought today would be a good time to divulge some top-secret info about my website in the works.

I'm still working on the coding, but now that I have received word from Dr. Kitaoka and his publisher around use of a figure I'm able to move on from the design phase!

Here's a low-res sample:


I think it's pretty cool :D