Friday, October 19, 2007

#10 Image Generators cont'd

First of all I tried to use the Bob Dylan Message Generator http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/bob-dylan-message-generator.html. It replaces the words on the cue cards that Bob flips in the Subterranean Homesick Blues film clip with words of your choice. I put in some favourite acerbic quotes about books and movies and was quite pleased with the finished result. But then I realised I could email the clip to my friends but not save it onto my computer - so you can't check it out.
Then I had some fun with the Conspiracy Theory Generator http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cubsfan/conspiracy.html and came up with a highly implausible theory about library fines and Family First. It was ok but the prompts weren't very clear so it would've needed a bit of reworking to make it read properly but I was just too tired.
Later I tried using the Motivator Generator http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php, taking one of my family snaps and adding a slightly witty motivational caption. I saved it to my computer where it still languishes as Blogger just couldn't upload it despite several tries.
As you can see, I did have some success with Captioner http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/captioner.php. So although I haven't got as much to show for my time spent, I can assure you I had some fun and know where to go if I want to while away more happy hours on my sometimes temperamental computer.