{"id":48,"date":"2025-01-24T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:51:00","slug":"gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/assignments\/gif\/","title":{"rendered":"GIF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignment #2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/9htde1.gif\" alt=\"A giant woman with eccentric blue hair points at Ryan Gosling's character. \" class=\"wp-image-49\" style=\"width:610px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have never made a GIF before, so I would count this as a first for this assignment! Although I did not pick my all-time favorite or least-favorite movie, I chose to do one of my favorite movies that are apart of the tech-noir\/cyber punk genre, Blade Runner 2049. I made a GIF from <em>Blade Runner 2049<\/em> because it perfectly captures the essence of the tech-noir genre, a fusion of futuristic technology and noir-inspired storytelling. There\u2019s something weirdly beautiful about its world, a sprawling dystopia drenched in neon and rain, where every frame feels like a staring at a piece of art. For me, creating a GIF from this film was about more than isolating a visually stunning moment; it was about preserving and sharing the atmosphere that defines the genre. In tech-noir, the technology isn\u2019t just a backdrop, it\u2019s a character, deeply intertwined with the human life. The GIF I chose captures a moment where the main character feels truly isolated, even with his once cherished companion standing in front of him. It\u2019s a way to distill the soul of the film into a loop, reflecting the endless, cyclical nature of the questions it asks about what it means to be alive. Creating this GIF felt like paying homage to a genre that explores dystopian themes and what our advancements in technology could lead us to in the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment #2 I have never made a GIF before, so I would count this as a first for this assignment! Although I did not pick my all-time favorite or least-favorite movie, I chose to do one of my favorite movies that are apart of the tech-noir\/cyber punk genre, Blade Runner 2049. I made a GIF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[13,16,17],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments","tag-assignments","tag-visualassignments","tag-visualassignments2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds106.livkern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}