I’m not a poet. I went with a haiku, as it’s brief and has a structure I can follow.
Haiku for Jim Groom.
— Michael J. Cripps (@michaeljcripps) May 16, 2020
*Immense gratitude
*To all behind 106.
*Special thanks Rev'rend Jim.
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DS106 and the Daily Create is the ongoing product/project involving many people, and it’s difficult to express kindness to an entire group without naming names. I benefit enormously from the energy people have invested in DS106. It inspires, amazes, and carves a path through the wilderness.
I think Jim Groom merits special mention in any expression of kindness for the work of DS106, so this morning I put together a crazy-hands GIF of Jim and included him in my haiku. I thought about turning the whole crazy-hands thing into a video with audio from Peter Gabriel’s “Shake Your Hands.” But it really didn’t work with the haiku. Hmm.
Tools: Google image search for the base Groom image; Photoshop from there. I used layers, eraser tool, text tool, band-aid tool, frames-to-animation to make a GIF, and legacy export to get the GIF out.
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