Here’s a quick and easy photo trick that might be a good activity for kids of all ages to try for Halloween (or any other time.)
The Alienator is a cool tool from Dumpr.net that lets you transform any photograph into an alien’s eye view. You can start with a photograph from your PC, your Flickr account, or from another source, choose one of the weird and wild effects, click, and you’re done! You’ll get a permanent link to your photo, or you can save it to your PC, upload it to Flickr, or send it by e-mail.
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October 9th, 2007 | Posted in Flickr, Fun
Teen Read Week is October 14-20, and this year’s theme is “LOL @ your library.” LOL means Laugh Out Loud, and one way to celebrate is to have your teens make some lolcats.
A lolcat is a photograph of a cat with amusing superimposed text, supposedly spoken by the cat. The text is usually mangled, with the spelling and grammar that one presumes cats, since apparently it’s possible to imagine cats writing in English, but not very well. There’s a definite unofficial style to lolcat images, with the text nearly always being done in a sans serif font, white with a black border.
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October 7th, 2007 | Posted in Flickr, Fun, Teen Read Week
