Imagined and Annotated Animated GIF Story of The Jim Groom Animated GIF #etMOOC Special
The Annotated and Recut Animated GIF version of The Jim Groom Animated GIF #etMOOC Special, by aforgrave
Sometimes storytellers need to augment the bare bones of a story to provide the audience with more details and information to get the full nuances of a story. If you’ve seen the Raw and Uncut version of the Jim Groom Animated GIF #etMOOC Special, then you’ll know it doesn’t provide the full story.
As imaginations are wont to do when some information is lacking, I took the liberty of annotating and re-cutting a number of segments of the broadcast into what I imagine it might have looked like, were it not for the intermittent visuals and audio.
Some of the words coming out of Jim Groom’s mouth in the following annotated version were definitely uttered by him last night. Others are provided as either close approximations of what was (or may have been) said, as somewhat-in-the-correct-ballpark estimations of what Jim might have wanted to say, or potentially clever fabrications purporting to fit within the general parameters of Jim’s mind and/or the ds106 creative storytelling ethos.
Enjoy!
If you are so inclined, feel free to comment about any key points that might have been omitted, once you have viewed the dtlt archive, or contribute to the discussion on the value of the Animated GIF today as a storytelling device and/or as a art form.
If you wish, you can view the Annotated and Recut version of the Jim Groom Animated GIF #etMOOC Special in a full-screen, full-glory 900 pixels-wide version.
Backstory: I’ve been following the #etmooc chatter for the past few weeks, but have not had the time or energy to really participate the the extent that I wish. However, I have been exploring the animated GIF for the past couple of months via ds106 under the tag #GIFestivus2012 here on this blog — you can see some of my work by following that tag. This little “annotated & recut” project was “just too good to pass up.”
Wow that is an epic GIF – as in epic poem and epic long. You definitely deserve the free #ds106 shirt!
At one point, I gave myself another 10 minutes to finish it. Suffice to say, it was long after those ten minutes when I pushed the publish button. Had to remove a lot of the extra hand-waving. Hard to see the thumb-wiggle now. But certainly a lot of fun — I was inspired with the automagic GIFfing effect of the stuttering feed. I started while Jim was still talking.
In terms of my contributions (unlike Tom, Michael, and Brian) this is much better than what I actually did. This GIF is amazing, you highlight the talk beautifully in your anarchic way, and it reinfiorces the vision as gif as community facilitator and joke, I loke it, Stealing this image now 🙂
Well, Jim, you have to take a lot of credit for the inspiration and motivation behind this. I had to edit out a bit at the end where you declared, “I’m spent,” — that was in homage to your pic from birthday party songfest this past weekend — but I feel quite content that the words reflect things that you have said at various times. The killer tagline at the end was a direct quote from last night, though — I wrote it down. It’s a keeper. The wig was hilarious. Thank again for your drive and enthusiam with ds106. It rocks!
This is really great, Andy. It must have taken quite a bit of time, but you’re getting so good at your GIFFing they’re just streaming out of your computer now. I love it.
Time? Ah, what it time, if not opportunity as yet unrealized? But yeah, it took quite a bit of time.
This is very true.
In a dreamlike state, I GIFF,
I find time stands still.
#WPhaiku