Yesterday Jim Groom (@jimgroom, on Twitter) was writing about Silicon Valley (End the Domination of Silicon Valley) and the 1985 Bond film, “A View to a Kill,” when he came across Car 106. Having long sought an image of a police car bearing the 106 number, he captured the image and posted it.
Now I see image captures of 106 frequently in @cogdog‘s photostream. He seems to have a sixth sense in operation and he finds them all the time. He has over 106 of them! Me, I look periodically, but really don’t have a lot of success. I likely need to look harder. Such images respond to Visual Assignment 35, “Cogdog’s Illustrate 106.”
But upon inspecting Jim’s image, I noticed that the number appeared to be a bit crudely positioned, and I wondered whether the image had been visited a Doctor (Oblivion). After all, creative juices are always flowing in the DS106 community, and a lot of Art gets made through the magic of image editing programs.
My curiosity piqued, I decided to go to the source, and a few moments later, determined a couple of things.
- catching sight of police car numbers during chase scenes in movies is tricky business.
- the numbers appearing on the cars in the film ARE crudely positioned — either hastily renumbered by the prop company, or just naturally messy.
- the car on the bridge is indeed numbered 106.
Not only that, the car perched on the edge of the bridge was ripe for GIFfing.
And so, as a token apology to Jim for doubting him, I dedicate the above GIF of Car 106 to him. And thank him for creating the conditions for a little pause for creativity. (And more profusely thank him for creating the conditions for a much larger community for creativity!)
#ds106 #4life
Nice, taking that to the next level. More than a screenshot, make it a GIF! This looks excellent, as usual you are an artist extraordinaire. I’m getting ready to dig into the design category this week, and the visual assignment was a gateway drug. Once I see an awesome GIF like this I’m addicted.
The rotating police lights just screamed out to be GIFfed. I tried to create the impression that the guy looking out the window pulled his head back inside in fear, but the timing was tricky. At any rate, good eyes for picking out the 106 — they were tough to read!
The 106 I have not found is the Roman numeral edition, CVI. Not likely on a police car…
Aha! So this explains my predisposition to ds106. Here in Ontario, we have (or perhaps used to have) a variety of different classifications for our secondary schools:
High School
Secondary School
Vocational Institute
Collegiate
Etc.
The one that I attended was a Collegiate & Vocational Institute — CVI.
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