Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Off topic
Ok this has SFA to do with 24, however it is Kiefer-related. But feel free to skip this entry if you're just looking for 24 stuff :)
So I rented Truth or Consequences, N.M. recently and enjoyed it immensely and added caps from it to the Kiefer movie gallery, blah blah blah. But I couldn't get that bloody weird dance Kiefer's character, Curtis, does in the film out of my head. I literally spewed my coffee all over the place the first time I saw it. It was such a classic, standout thing and fit the character so perfectly. So anyway, I have to return the film soon but I wanted to capture those oh-so-groovy moves until I can manage to buy the DVD.
Well I'd made animated gifs before from other movies so I figured that would be my best bet. The first attempt was horrible. Then I figured out what I did wrong and 90 frames later, I had a good gif. But the problem with that was it took feckin' ages to load for people who also dig the Curtis moves. So last night there was nothing on telly and it was too cold and snowy outside to go anywhere. Then out of the blue it hits me that I have some kind of movie making program buried somewhere on my computer and I begin to wonder if it's possible to turn my gif into a little movie that might load faster. Sho' nuff it is possible. So I taught myself how to use the program, and an hour later I have The Curtis Boogie complete with Foghat tunage :) (It's about 1Mb, and a Windows Media file that should pop open the Win Media Player when you click it. If you're on a Mac though, I have no idea what it will do.)
So yeah, I'm quite chuffed with myself actually, that was hella fun to make.
And to get back on topic - Woohoo 24 tonight!!!
So I rented Truth or Consequences, N.M. recently and enjoyed it immensely and added caps from it to the Kiefer movie gallery, blah blah blah. But I couldn't get that bloody weird dance Kiefer's character, Curtis, does in the film out of my head. I literally spewed my coffee all over the place the first time I saw it. It was such a classic, standout thing and fit the character so perfectly. So anyway, I have to return the film soon but I wanted to capture those oh-so-groovy moves until I can manage to buy the DVD.
Well I'd made animated gifs before from other movies so I figured that would be my best bet. The first attempt was horrible. Then I figured out what I did wrong and 90 frames later, I had a good gif. But the problem with that was it took feckin' ages to load for people who also dig the Curtis moves. So last night there was nothing on telly and it was too cold and snowy outside to go anywhere. Then out of the blue it hits me that I have some kind of movie making program buried somewhere on my computer and I begin to wonder if it's possible to turn my gif into a little movie that might load faster. Sho' nuff it is possible. So I taught myself how to use the program, and an hour later I have The Curtis Boogie complete with Foghat tunage :) (It's about 1Mb, and a Windows Media file that should pop open the Win Media Player when you click it. If you're on a Mac though, I have no idea what it will do.)
So yeah, I'm quite chuffed with myself actually, that was hella fun to make.
And to get back on topic - Woohoo 24 tonight!!!
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