Unfair Meme Disruption

Here's what's up: last year my good friend Joel tried to organize a Google Hangout viewing party of the ABC Family movie "Cyberbully" (spelled Cyberbu//y), but it fell through. I finally had the chance to watch the movie last night, and it was abysmal in the way that I can enjoy a movie. I notified Joel of my viewing:

To which he responded:

(dogface and lardo is a joke from the movie)

I clicked the link:



The producer of this film goes by the name LiberalTom. I checked out his profile and found this:



Whenever I'm presented with something this silly and/or heartwarming, I post it to dump. As a mod, I can directly autoplay the video to mess with people. I got a few favs, which didn't count towards my score (mod hacks don't factor in), but most thought provoking was the response from dumper erikhaspresence, who responded

Which was true, since dump was having a hivemind moment with a "Tom Moody" meme, like so:

Closing thoughts:

• What makes for a good hivemind?
• How many more Tom Moody memes do we need on dump?
• Is there a Brooklyn-based band called "Unfair Meme Disruption" forming right now?
• Can a video disrupt an image-pair meme?
• What's stronger in terms of remix value, an image or a video?

Lindsey checks Facebook

More Hike GIFs - Ramona Falls

Technical notes: I'm using the "continuous shutter" setting on my camera to take pictures about a half a second apart each. I then either stabilize them by hand in Photoshop (the tilt ones especially need this) or I use the Warp Stabilizer plugin in After Effects. I then export them as GIFs, trying to keep the filesize as low as possible while maintaining color depth. Depending on the image, this can be easy or hard - for instance, the full shot of the falls (4 images up) uses only 32 colors!

Poll responses, pt. 1

Thanks to all who participated in my informal poll last month. I've begun work on the 10 drawings I plan to complete for the respondents. So far, this is working as a great excuse to learn HTML5's canvas element. Here are the first 3:

"#2 - Ghost-modernist" for James McKain
(I actually made another image initially, but I like this better)



 "#5 - brush for actual artist that I hardly ever use" for Samuel Howe




"#4 only - but you know this" for Tom Moody

Again, thanks to @oh_god and @noisia for their help on getting the canvas stuff working. These guys should be coding crazy stuff for a living.

The Portland Rose Garden as a GIF