Below my entry to the #GIFITUP2018 competition. I used Photoshop Elements to manipulate the original image, and EZGIF to create the animated GIF.
The other day I went shopping at Woolworths in Glenwood and I noticed a bench made from recycled plastic bags. How commendable indeed. A bench as shown on the excellent ABC TV series War on Waste, which by the way should be compulsory viewing in every school class around the country.
But then there is this in the very same shop, an entire aisle of fruit wrapped in plastic:
Seriously? I for one refuse to buy wrapped fruit like this.
Get your act together Woolworths, and walk the talk!
This series of photos dates back to a windy afternoon in 2013 at 1 Farrer Place in Sydney.
For my next animation I tried out a different software, Dragonframe, which is used by pros such as Aardman, Disney and Laika for stop motion animation.
Just a little background to why I chose to animate my daughter’s brand new purchase. As a boy I was a sports nut and my allegiance lay squarely with Adidas. Interestingly fashion seems to have come full circle, with this very simple design looking very much like the sports shoes I used to wear in the 80’s.
Our education system has been fundamentally broken for many decades, ever since schools were established, actually. It is disheartening to see that nothing has changed since I went to school. And there are additional challenges schools, teachers and students are facing today. Sal Khan explains just how the system is broken and how applying the concept of mastery would make education so much more worthwhile.
I recently discovered that electric car maker Tesla set up shop on Sydney Martin Place. Beautiful vehicles indeed. It seems like the future is arriving, slowly but surely. I’m not so sure that all transportation will be electric by the year 2030, but we’re moving in the right direction, albeit painfully slowly. All we need now is for these cars to become affordable and for electricity to be generated by means other than burning coal, as is sadly still the case in most of Australia.
