Tag: gifs
In an effort to better understand animated images’ ability to “convey emotion, empathy, and context in a subtle way,” a pair of MIT researchers created GIFGIF. The site presents you with two randomly selected animated GIFs, and asks which better conveys a specific emotion, like fear, shame, excitement, or amusement. The goal is to use the […]
From EMA’s upcoming album “The Future’s Void,” here’s “So Blonde,” a chippy new video shot in Los Angeles. Directed by Vice Cooler in collaboration with digital artist Molly Soda, who is responsible for all the GIFs. “Watch for venice beach vibes x dancing babes x rainbows,” which is what Venice Beach actually feels like at its […]
Last year, we showed you a bit of Williamsburg gentrification you could see happening before your eyes on Google Street View. Take one step down North 3rd Street near Kent Avenue, and a dilapidated warehouse turned into a shiny new apartment complex. Now, in a series called Vacated, artist Justin Blinder is building on that concept […]
Here are some 8-bit style animated GIFs of famous movie moments by Slovakia-based artist Dusan Cezek. For kitsch, “Pixelwood” series is really outstanding, with perfect color schemes (that very Wes Anderson orange in Cezek’s The Life Aquatic tho!) and narrative humor (Hulk mad!!!… Hulk brb). And how about that expressive versatility of Cezek’s single “pixel” blocks! The blinking eyes […]
The most romantic thing on the internet today is Endless Porno Kisses, a single-serving site that infinitely loops giant GIFs of actors kissing in adult films. Just kissing. It’s mesmerizing to watch. Each click brings a new couple, passionately licking each other’s tongues — men kissing men, women kissing women, women kissing men. Damjan Pita, one […]
As proven by this compilation of Miley Cyrus twerking on famous paintings from Buzzfeed, the VMAs aren’t actually for popular music or news coverage, but for the after-show fall-out and memes. PS. Art art art. […]
We’re almost done celebrating Andy Warhol’s birthday. See anything good on that live gravecam? Société Perrier has for you a net art GIF tribute to Andy — for he was a fan of the computer! — and what do you know, it features some of our favorite artists. Here are some good ones… Lorna Mills, Harwood […]
Do you like crazy art GIFs?! On Saturday, Lorna Mills’ The Axis of Something solo show of animated GIFs and large-scale digital prints (made like this) comes to a close at Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn with an event! Lorna Mills has curated a group projections project called Clusterfuck Zoo featuring ” animal otherness, charismatic mega-fauna fights and cross-species romance (always the […]
Germany-based conceptual artist Kim Asendorf makes undulating, hypnotic, complex gifs. Then why did he send this gif into deep space? Why is this seemingly uneventful gif’s signal being beamed into deep space right now via the Lone Signal METI (Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment, on its 17.6 year journey towards the potentially habitable solar system Gliese 526? Why? Because, as Asendorf tells […]
TRANSFER — New York’s only net art gallery — has an opening tomorrow night that is relevant to your interests. Especially if your interests are large scale physical manifestations of digital work poppin’ GIFs like this… This is Lorna’s Loose Lips Sink Ships! GIF from Run Computer Run, but for TRASNFER it’s all new everything: The […]
