Tumblr Quick Tip: GIFs
Those million moving pictures on your dashboard (wizard pictures for muggles!) are mesmerizing, and you want to make your own, not just reblog them or post reactions from a folder.
If you need GIF resources, we’ve got you covered:
- Gizmodo has a tutorial on How To Make a GIF
- And The Verge has a post entitled Deal With It: the art and science of creating GIFs
- Don’t have Photoshop? Try these: GIF Soup, GIF Brewery
- On your phone: Cinemagram, Gifboom, Gifture, Loopcam, MyFaceWhen, Giffer, Gifantor, Gif Camera (look for these in your phone’s app store— and let us know if we’ve missed a good one on your preferred platform)
(Like this post? Stay tuned; we’ll have a Getting Started with Tumblr kit available soon.)
THE COOLEST TOY FOR GIRLS EVER
The electric dollhouse kit encourages girls aged 6 to 10 to create their own wired dollhouses (think fans, lights, motors, and buzzers) with circuits and wooden building components. The stackable rooms attach to one another to create a home. Instead of playing princess, girls are playing architect, artist, and engineer.
27 of History’s Strangest Inventions: Car with shovel for pedestrians
Invented for the purpose of ‘reducing the number of casualties among pedestrians;’ Paris, 1924.
Pinterest’s Copyright Strategy Puts the Burden on Users
Pinterest, the social network that encourages image hoarding, hasn’t done a very good job preparing for the inevitable copyright scandal the site will face. At its essence, Pinterest seems to encourage copyright infringement as it asks users to steal and share images in acts of ”delightful, addictive, theft,” as The Awl’s Choire Sicha aptly put it. With a mission that’s defined by illegal sharing, one would think that the site would better prepare itself for legal challenges. It hasn’t.
» via The Atlantic
"We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years."
The World’s Tallest Treehouse - 10 stories, 6 oak trees
AMAZING. I want to fly via @courtstarr
Street Art Without The Paint - PSFK
Using decrepit city walls as his canvas, the artist carved faces from the concrete, unmasking the beauty inherent to even the most neglected spaces.
For National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, high school student Galia Slayen decided to make a life-size Barbie, using the same proportion as the iconic doll.
Awesome.
11th and Folsom. (via instagr.am)
