racer-x, Blighty II, Tas_mania: Dear Friends in the Distance, thank you so much for your replies to this post left in the draft for too long.
racer-x, bless your heart. It didn't occur to me at the time but I should have been specifically clear in some way that the post was "for entertainment purposes only." There is a very old digital photography program called "virtualstudio" and one of the effects is called "Shoe box" which turns a regular photo into the image of a discolored and grainy film negative. While playing with creating CLUTs in GIMP I got one that seemed to have a similar color-distress effect, memory-tripped into virtualstudio, thought "Ahha, this is a digital version of that 'film left in a shoe box for too many years effect' " I have a lot of real film negative that looks like that, actually, and thought the juxtaposition of "corruptible" film and "incorruptible" digital media was funny and quickly made an example and posted it. That you were genuinely willing to try to help a possibly deluded newbie, who was in this case being a class clown, says much about what it means to be a genuine teacher in the world. Gimp Chat is lucky to have you.
Blighty II, thanks for the advice, but I must have done something wrong at some step ... the computer won't boot up any more and godamighty it smells funny ... did all those pieces really have to go back in?
Tas-mania, I remember reading years ago that while users often expected digital media to somehow last forever, it really does degenerate over time (even though it's on plastic). I had never heard the term "bit rot" before but immediately wanted to appropriate it as the basis for a new view of the world, or at least another alias.
When trying to think of how to label any further watercooler entertainment pieces I might post, I thought of calling them "whimsicals." What came to mind then was your "Picasso takes a drive" animation. I imagined a penny-farthing-style bicycle with spinning triangle wheels within wheels. Whymcycles! Multiple puns! But since that time I have found there is a television commercial that actually shows an ancient vehicle with triangle wheels. Since that time I have also found in Wikipedia an entry for "Eccentric-hub scooter," one of which is actually called a "whymcycle."
It seems there's nothing I can imagine that isn't real somewhere.
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BUSINESS PLAN: I believe I will use this thread as the place where I will post any further whimsies, fancies, fantasies and that I'm concerned may get out of mind.
DISCLAIMER: The following images, all made possible in whole or part by GIMP, are presented for the propagation of entertainment only. Proceed with appropriate appropriateness.
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