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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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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Some of the most inspired gifs — and acts of appropriation — we’ve seen lately are Segawa Atsuki’s incredible animations of pre-modern Japanese prints here. We find this version of The Great Wave, Hokusai’s iconic woodblock from the 1800’s curiously soothing, as though we were IN that boat riding waves. We imagine ourselves on that boat riding the waves…
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(Video link HERE.) Over the past few weeks, we’ve inadvertently collected three strangely fabulous animal videos and gifs. (We recommend watching with the sound off.) The first is of a guy transporting his goat on a bike…and the goat holding tight and looking like he travels that way all the time. The second,
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Our blogging platform won’t allow gifs to be posted on the homepage or thumbnails without messing up the code SO CLICK TO VIEW THIS WEEK’S GIF.
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via Tara Mann via The B-Man Collective
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We LOVE gifs, and are amazed that a little bit of code that can animate an image, making it live. Lately, we’ve noticed gif artists applying the process to create new visions of things, like this fire hydrant that a gif-artist “saw” as voluptuous statuary. Here’s a whole Tumblr-full of gifs from Moving the Still,…
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The forecast for today: a wondrous pink sky and an ocean full of ideas… via 40licks Related posts: an evening gif: gratitude… practice makes! what have you been making today? peep show gif: funny, risqué, slightly x-rated color/pattern meditation break gif-inspiration: devise, invent, create…try something new
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