We’ve watched this small, beautiful gem from Francis Alys several times during the past week, amazed by how such a seemingly simple little video can have such power.
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Nudes Floating in Space: Jimmy Simpson’s Virtual Mobiles (after Alexander Calder)
Inspired by Alexander Calder, illustrator/animator Jimmy Simpson has created an ongoing series of digital mobiles. His loose line drawings turn dimensional and animated using 3D software. They are even more charming as gifs floating in space.
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24 Sublime Dancing Goddess Gifs Share Their Joy
Animator Nina Paley created two dozen sublime early goddess GIFs, including a sassy Venus of Willendorf. We don’t know when we’ve seen so much forthright joy.
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Jalabert Camille’s ‘Fuel’ Will Brighten Your Day
(Video link here.) Really funny and totally sweet, this teeny film by 3rd year film student Jalabert Camille will make you feel just fine about just about any misstep, mess-up or irritant you encounter today. It takes Samuel Beckett’s famous lines about failure to an extraordinary place…
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200-Year-Old Mechanical Gifs are Like Mandalas
In 1829, a Belgian physicist devised a form of animation that is akin to our modern-day gifs: a spinning disk patterned with small repeating illustrations, attached to a handle that allowed it to spin and “animate” the imagery. Due to the rapid progression of technology, phenakistoscopes’ popularity lasted only a couple of years, yet they yielded…
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