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The Animated gif exhibition « Crap = Good→ blog
Last thursday the opening of ‘The animated Gif exhibition’ took place in Antwerp. It was a nice evening with lots of people, short conversations, a band, finger food and drinks, some speeches and a lot of gifs. Crap = Good presented the ‘Animated gif player’, a device, like its name suggests, capable of playing .gif file formats.
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shinoddddd reblogged forcedinfodumps:
Marc Weidenbaum asked: “Wondering if there’s a sonic equivalent of (or parallel to) an animated GIF, and if so what it is.”
Tom Moody answered:
It would have to be (a) short, (b) a loop, (c) digitally timed, (d) compellingly misaligned in some way, (e) easily grasped by the listener but containing some subtleties that reveal themselves in repetition, and (f) pattern-based. Obviously we’re talking about the more abstract GIFs here, not a seagull strolling into a convenience store and stealing a bag of chips over and over.
In the process of pondering the question, Moody also recorded an example that fulfilled his hypothesis (MP3).
transformations of a cinema front in Athens
When I started out in the web world, animated GIFs were all the rage. I therefore fully embrace, with a somewhat nostalgic notion, apps like the GIF Shop. It let’s you easily create and edit animated GIFs right from your iPhone.
So says swissmiss | GIF Shop. What most interests me here is the evocation of nostalgia, in this specific context.
Thanks to Matt Richardson’s post on MAKE, I’m fascinated by cinemagraphs, which are still images containing a little bit of looping motion. (If you’re familar with animated GIFs, this is something similar, but a bit more refined.)
NYC-based photographers Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg are doing absolutely stunning work with cinemagraphs in fashion photography. It’s amazing how much more poignancy an image takes on with just a little movement. Do head over to Jamie’s Tumblr, where you’ll see lots more interesting cinemagraphs.
If you’re interested in learning to make your own cinemagraphs, there’s this tutorial at Photojojo.
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