Awesome Bankers?
Kiva Nerdfighters: http://www.kiva.org/team/nerdfighters
In which John discusses job creation, small businesses, how the work of bankers can actually decrease worldsuck (contrary to popular belief), and how credit crunches affect economies around the world. I also discuss the microfinance web site kiva.org, which allows all of us to make loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Keep Calm and DFTBA posters (and t-shirts!): http://dftba.com/product/yh/Keep-Calm-and-DFTBA-Poster
So it’s 4am and I’m still here, awake, keeping an eye on school closings for my sister, watching lots of old videos from my favorite YouTubers, John and Hank Green. When one of them travels somewhere they like to do “thoughts from places” videos. I decided to rank my favorites at the moment.
Top 5 Favorite “Thoughts from Places” Videos (So Far)
#5: Thoughts from Places: YouTube HQ
“But it’s not magical and it’s not evil, either. They’re just people. Mostly very cool and talented people, but just people, and they work in a place…”
(Source: youtube.com)
Question to the universe: why couldn’t Robi get to play Melchior just once?
He was in Spring Awakening three times. You’d think he’d get a shot at it eventually.
Still bitter.
HOW TO: Make animated GIFs (in GIMP)
EDIT: AN IMPROVED VERSION OF THIS TUTORIAL IS NOW AVAILABLE
Animated GIFs are fun. They’re all over Tumblr. Yet they’re a mystery to a lot of people — I’ve seen many a messy gif made with sites like gifsoup and people admitting they just don’t know where to begin in making their own. Allow me to teach you*, Tumblrites, how to make a simple animated gif from a YouTube video using all entirely free programs. Awesome. (I just figured out gifs in GIMP last night so experienced GIMP users should forgive any GIMP stupidity contained in this tutorial :P)
*assuming you aren’t on a Mac because I’m not sure GIMP is available for you. Everyone else should be okay. I’ll be demoing from Windows 7 (don’t hurt me.)
Today, I will be making this simple gif:
THINGS YOU WILL NEED (THEY ARE ALL FREE)
- Mozilla Firefox (Because of the next bullet point)
- 1-Click YouTube Video Download (Firefox Add-On) — this is for getting the video off YouTube (if you don’t need to get a video off YouTube it doesn’t matter, obviously, but most people seem to want to know this part so I will cover it)
- Avidemux — this is a video editing program that will quickly and easily take a chunk of a video and save all the frames as separate images for you, which will make the whole process more painless. Awesome.
- GIMP — It’s an image editing program (like Photoshop but for people who don’t have money (but have morals)). It will allow us to make our gif, and it’s pretty awesome free alternative to Photoshop for general image editing things outside of making gifs as well.
Download/Install those as necessary and then ONWARD!
Shiver me timbers
I like Tumblr to be a happy place. But occasionally have to rant about things that I think are applicable to Tumblr. I don’t like having this sort of discussion attached to my name, but just this once…
Unpopular opinion: I hate bootlegs being posted on YouTube. Or linked on Twitter. Or posted/linked on Tumblr. It makes me angry with the person doing it, even though I’m sure they have nothing but the best intentions, and it makes me angry with the people who encourage that person on by going OMG YOU ARE SUCH A GOD OMG GREATEST PERSON EVER KEEP POSTING BOOTLEGS WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU.
Theater bootlegs are NOT like pirated movies or music or concerts, which I think is a mistake a lot of people make. Bootlegs in public hurt everyone. Including the people who are so eager for bootlegs to appear in public. Here’s some reasons why:
