✨A posthumous internet legacy✨
Samantha Hansel
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I am spending the night in the hospital, with pneumonia. But I am sitting here watching Mary Poppins, so things could be worse. Still would rather be home, though...
She died on December 13, 2018.
January 11 1986-December 13 2018
She left an internet gif trail. Her photobucket account is inaccessible, but I've been able to get the gifs from the links (luckily she gave them all numbers).
The gifs are also really small, so they all upload to scrapbook. Not sure when I'll finish downloading and uploading. She giffed the entire move, and the extras with the cast/voice actors.
Here is my folder where I will upload everything. As always, it's fine to use these links/images. I have 1 TB of space because my account is Permanent.
Some of the image links are broken, but the majority of them I've been able to download.
I'm not exactly when I'll finish. I know she made 2000 gifs. She giffed the entire movie, every facial expression, every character, every animation sequence.
I guess I feel emotional. When we lose an internet friend, to anything - death, rift in communication, deleted blogs etc. - we rarely have anything to remember them by.
But now I do.
Here is a youtube video where Sam talks about this gif project. In this video, she was on gif #288.
This is the gif she was talking about.
I know I have a smiling Jasmine icon which doesn't really make that much sense, but I'm kind of smiling and crying right now.
The gifs that she made, they're still live on the internet, and they still animate. Makes me feel like...she's not completely gone.
The timing of me finding a way to save her gifs couldn't have been more perfect. This upcoming week is the last week of my Disney Store being open.
As for this movie, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, I just missed the 25th anniversary - it was on August 13th. Dang, Samantha made these gifs 10 years ago for the 15th anniversary.
Anyhow, saving these gifs of Samanthas, a friend who is now passed on, in the same week my store will close, seems like a blessing. (My store closes on the 21st).
Tomorrow I will start with this gif: https://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j363/kotgifs/kot401.gif https://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j363/kotgifs/kot501.gif
Edit: Got up to the "Out of thin air" sequence.
This may take a long time. I know she made more than 2000 gifs of the movie and maybe 100 gifs of the cast.
It may take a few days to get through everything. I have to stop now because my eyes are really tired.
Anyhow if you're interested in learning about who Samantha was as a person, look at this post by princealia. She is able to articulate who Samantha was in a way that I never could.