With all that capacity up there in the braincase, the Katamit is able to both communicate telepathically with the earthlings, but also reserve some bandwidth for his own secure and private thoughts.
Would that our intrepid hero Cryptographer Michael Chambers had spent more time trying to decipher the Katamit text before getting on that ship.
“A Katamit’s Private Thoughts,” animated GIF, by aforgrave, extended from “To Serve Man“
Of course, once our intrepid hero’s colleague, Patty, spilled the beans, it caused a bit of a kerfuffle on Earth.
“Oops, My Bad!” animated GIF, by aforgrave, extended from To Serve Man“
However, by that time, our intrepid hero was en route to the Katamit homeworld, with only a simple redeeming thought for solace. Perhaps he is able to decipher THIS simple code? Can you?
“Some Solace for the Codebreaker…” animated GIF by aforgrave, extended from To Serve Man
My GIF-eye-tis must really be acting up. I’m finding it difficult to do any ds106 assignment that doesn’t wind up a GIF.
I guess there are worse afflictions.
POSTSCRIPT:
Brian Short’s eagle eyes managed to pick out an also-altered sub-heading in the newspaper, “Scandal: It’s a Cookbook.” Given that I had also altered some other headlines in the paper that became illegible with the motion and the blur effects I applied during the newspaper animation, I am posting a still of the newspaper here.
“Oops, My Bad” Newspaper (still) by aforgrave, on Flickr
Is that morse code?
Man, your GIFs continual to blow my mind, and the GIF meets spubble idea is awesome, I love that you are kinda playing on Talky Tina’s Nick of Time GIF here:
http://iamtalkytina.com/2013/05/my-true-friend-nick/
I love what you are doing more generally with all your work, when are you teaching a section of ds106? I am mind blow, and there may be interest here at UMW for an online Fall section 🙂
Well, if I were to say “Yes, it IS morse code,” then it would certainly make it easier for someone to decode it.
I need to find a little time to do a 3-spubble GIF from your Tuesday ds106zone Broadcast Introduction and Syllabus Review — I had three good quotes in mind. Now I need to remember them!
Dude, hilarious. You’re killing it.
“Scandal: It’s a cookbook.” Well played, sir.
You have very good eyes, Brian, to pick that out. I was a bit upset to see that by the time I had placed the edited newspaper back into the frame sequence, and rotated and scaled it to match, most of the “adjusted” text was no longer legible. Yes, the main headline, was fine, and you have picked out the “Scandal: It’s a Cookbook” sub-heading, but there were a couple other small headlines, too, that got lost in the finished product. I’ve posted the original, edited newspaper (pre-GIF) to my Flickr, and embedded it at the end of the post above.