So, I Have Been Working On This New Anti-War Gif Animation...

Any thoughts or suggestions before I sent it out to the world?



Bushies call me a bleeding heart liberal! Well, let me tell you. My heart DOES bleed for these people! As do the hearts of all right thinking Americans.

Many Bush supporters probably also feel for the Iraqis. But their compasion ends with the beginning of the U.S.invasion which they see as the solution to these people's troubles.

How Sad!!!

I nominated even though I'm crying hard.

:hi:

:loveya: She'd love that! That damn doll is ALWAYS naked. Sorry DA not to high jack your thread. I've watched your piece five times and I still cry. We MUST get out of Iraq NOW!!!

Bravo!

unfortunately, nobody that matters cares.

We'll MAKE The rest care!

That's HORRIBLE! :cry: ... but don't change a thing!

nominated

:thumbsup:

I have one minor suggestion: the picture of shrub is too benign. There's one of him used as a "War Criminal" signature gif that more accurately captures the evil of this man.

One. I'll Probably Find Something Meaner!

:D

to prepare a cell for Rummy. Wouldn't want to make that mistake!

YOU WILL HAVE two new posted pages of graphics TODAY. I started it yesterday and I promise to get them up today. I'll add Curious George Of COurse. Although It is a bit happy friendy for your usual aestetic, No?

edit: fucking sinister lizard, isn't she? :D

Thanks Papa Dulce! ;)

This one is from a couple days ago, but you may have it. There's also the POE one. You got it?:



edit: I've been using the "save to web" feature so the JPGs are smaller, but a little poorer quality... not by much though.

It has the caption "War Criminal" with a link to the site where you can pick up small jpegs.

Let me poke around a bit & post when I find it.

Thanks!

to start poking around my archives looking for it. This one right?



I'll add it in later.

Can you spot it?

Damn. Wish I could think of these things at one time......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3732321&mesg_id=3732321&page=

I feel so alone in my outrage over this.

it will be studied in classrooms across the world for 200 years!

although the second would not be bad...

Thanks!:hi:

As opposed to, say, the antifreeze in the bodies of many Repubs.

I will never get over that grandfather holding the child with her foot blown off *shudder*


Excellent gif, DA. Every work of art you create shortens the war by at least one day, because somewhere someone will see it and be affected and join the voices speaking out against this atrocity. :thumbsup:

Or Tiny (maybe good for a sig line application...)

1. Can you animate the blood drips on the edges of the heart?

2. Try animating the heart changing to solid red (at the end) by flowing the blood down from the top.

Very nice job, though!

Thanks for the suggestions! It helps me think motion. I really am pretty new to animating. Still has always been my bag.

They are annoying, not to mention the fact that your one GIF is almost 800,000 bytes, almost a megabyte in size! Not only will it crash older browsers (a given if you incorporate it into a webpage), but dial-up users will find that downloading your page or e-mail slows their computer to a standstill and will most likely back out of your site or delete your e-mail. Hosting this image will also cause your bandwidth costs to skyrocket.

Again, it is a noble statement, but if you want your message to reach the maximum number of people with the least amount of negative technical difficulties, work on a series of smaller static images instead.

BTW: I have a weakness for the small animated smilies here at DU, but since any visitor will quickly learn to expect an insane amount of wasted bandwidth in signature lines, the ordinary rules don't really apply.
:argh:

I am so very glad to live here in the 21st century. Away from the scourge of dial-up.

I'll work up a short one later. right now I'm still playing...

I have plenty of static images here:
http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/distressedamerican/main.htm

You may live in the "21st century", but many of your visitors are working class people who may have a slower second-hand computer and/or can't afford DSL or broadband. Some also may still live in rural areas where DSL or broadband isn't available. They're simply going to back out of your site and go elsewhere.

You may want to enter the 21st century (or at least 1999) when it comes to web design. Are you going for the nostalgic look with all of the frames?

problem free status. I have it and I enjoy it. Sorry if that bothers you.

My apologies to the dial up crowd and the Web Standards Project.

I guess it wouldn't be a morning around here without some "more liberal than thou" flames...

You are welcome to offer me some free design whenever you'd like.

I'm doing what I can to help the cause within the constraints of my broke ass, grad student, raising an infant existance...

BTW - I am also offering some of my free hosting to other artists that lack it is that makes you feel like I an not separating anyone from the digital means of production.

http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/distresseamerican/submissions.htm

It's your site, not mine. But what bothers me will also bother those with similar limitations on internet accessibility. You're responsible for your own content and markup. If you want to make a site that is optimized to your own connection and browser settings, then you've created a little sandbox that no one else will want to play in. The people you are potentially bothering are those that might have an interest in what you have to say. Of course, you'll never hear from those people because they'll be gone in a flash.

Here are some free design tips:

1) Learn web standards.

2) Learn CSS 1.0 (the basics) and how to separate content from presentation.

3) Learn the basics of accessibility conformance. You don't have to go crazy and make your site black and white, but implementing the minimum requirements will allow disabled people to read what you have to say as well.

But hey, it's your sandbox.

however, your attitude is pretty far outside what I'd say my infraction calls for.

As I added to my last message. I am doing what I can. I am broke, finishing a Ph.D. and raising a kid. A year ago I never intended to have a site at all.

I apologize that within those constraints I have not had time to become a professional webmaster. I have made significant progress and have done some very good work for very good causes.

You show up and accuse me of elitism. Maybe you should step down off of your Web for the masses high horse and recognize that I am working like a dog and doing what I can.

All of the things you suggest are great in principle and among my goals. But Damn! How about a freaking particle of respect for what I have accomplished and am accomplishing.

Way to make yourself the Czar of web standards. Your goal is noble. However, maybe you could consider pulling the thorn out of your proletarian paw an inch or two.

Your message would get through a lot more clearly.

...or don't. I got snotty when you seemed to brag about your high-speed Internet access, and if that was your intention then I still say it's elitist. I could personally give a damn what your personal site looks like.

Learning and implementing web standards doesn't cost money. You can learn everything online through the W3C. It will SAVE you money in the long run when you have to start paying for your own hosting and bandwidth.

So it's a proletarian high-horse I ride when it comes to making the web accessible to all, but when it comes to making stores and work environments accessible to all it suddenly becomes a major progressive issue. Ask yourself how pissed you'd be if the local bakery, Wal-Mart or Big Boy had no access for wheelchair-bound customers or employees. How is this different for the sight-impaired?

I happen to make visual art to work against social injustice. That takes bandwidth sometimes. I wish it didn't. But it does. Again, my apologies.

As I noted in my original reply, I am working on a smaller bandwidth version. I am still developing it. i.e. Not done yet. I thought that I had acknowledged your criticism. Then you launch on me with crap like elitist for a little joke.

I happen to need high speed access for my education and work research. If that is elitist to you, Well, I guess tuition and books should be considered elitist too.

You seem to have a lot invested in this issue.

I just suggest that maybe I am not the person you should be venting on. I think you may be coming at it from thw wrong end.

Why not use some of that energy to work on the damn providers. they are the ones that keep decent access inaccessible. Not me.

While you are at it why don't you write a letter to the student loan folks. The interest rates and loan requirements are a far larger impediment to education than lack of high speed internet access (in my book anyway).

My university offers it to all of its on campus students (I out of pocket it as I live off campus). I just wish more people could afford to be here.

Learning and implementing (what you have decided are) "webstandards" may not take money. But, would you mind pointing out where I could find some more time?

Again you set me off with the "21st Century" comment. Each of us have our own pet issues and the "digital divide" is one of mine. I'm sure you have pet issues and if I made a comment that sounded elitist to you in regards to that issue, you would become upset too. That is a foible almost every DUer suffers from at one point or another.

If I haven't completely alienated you from web standards, then I would say again that you may want to start learning about them. From the way you describe your field of study, I think you could probably benefit more from learning web standards than some of the subjects you're paying big money to learn in the classroom. Releasing and presenting art on the web requires an in-depth study of standards to not only make your presentation accessible, but to also manage costs associated with bandwidth, which will become more and more of an issue as the Web (and XHTML) evolves to meet demand.

Start with the link in my signature line, then visit the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) site at http://www.w3.org/.

As far as time goes, we all wish we had more of it. It's a matter of using it wisely. I'm staying up late learning Ubuntu Linux at the moment. I wish I had more time to sleep.

I have nothing against it. I am just busy as hell and trying. I just recently got it up to frames level with what I could learn between learning an amazing amount of doctoral level detail and baby duty.
Thanks for recognizing that.

I have every intention of doing the things you suggest. There will be further imrpovements and updates. I have not been alienated.

If my site makes you sad now. You should have seen it a month ago. Believe me this really is a big improvement.

Sorry again about the "21st century" comment. It realy wasn't meant as an insult. I got here not too long ago and it is liberating. I'll try my best to keep the little guy in mind.

Have a good one.

If I wanted to get on Skinner's bad side, I would start complaining to him about DU's non-conformance. But I love DU so much that I can overlook it.

Being a "broke-ass" myself, I can promise you that paying $40-65 a month for high-speed access is ridiculous unless you're using it professionally. Therefore once the university or school or whatever cuts you off expect to pay $20 a month just for basic dial-up and budget hosting.

I got snotty when you made the "21st century" comment. I have high-speed access at work, but I don't consider it a point of pride. I take pride in creating sites that almost anyone could access. My personal site is more heavy-ended than my other sites, but that is my sandbox and I designed it that way. If you're happy with yours, then by all means stick with it.

The one of * and the Saudi prince kissing; the one where the little girl is sitting and crying on the ground with blood all over her after her parents were killed in their car; one of lots of people here in the U.S. protesting *; and the one where Kerry is at a soldiers funeral? These are just some of the images that have stayed with me for months. Hope you don't mind the suggestions! :)

I'll have to clear any changes with the ministry of web standards first though!:spray:

I've got an old macintosh and even with DSL, I can't view lots of stuff-usually real player or windows media-on the net. Oh well, I'm dealing with it-no one to blame but myself-and hoping I can afford a new computer later this year. :shrug:

BTW-those photos I'm talking about were posted here on DU-finding them require some work unless you already have em. I'll try and look for them when I have a minute later today. :)

Here's what I found:

Kerry at funeral-photo of him alone
http://coastalrain.tripod.com/legacy/id11.html

Bloody child after parents were killed-3rd photo is the most wrenching
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/19/19315/6590

* & Saudi Prince holding hands
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/images/bush%2Bsaudi%2Bprince%2Bkiss

* & Prince kissing-may be photoshopped
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t39202.html

Hope you can use these! :)

very powerful.

:toast:

unsuspecting populace!

Unadulterated Cheney!

The horror! The HORROR!

Hey DA!

:hi:

Come to think of it I should have included this Bush TOO!



HI!:toast:

I've had the thought before that Cheney has had a stroke and that's why he always has such awful and angry expressions, then I realize that no, that's just the way he is.



:beer: :beer:

Are you going to put music to it? ;)

Don't think there is anyway to do it with a gif.

:kick:

:grouphug: