Singapore based artist Qi Wei Fong’s animated version of Time Is A Dimension, a series of layered collage/composites tracing the passage of several hours in various Chinese cities.
More here.
(NB: Fong points out that, since the images flicker, it may not be advisable for sensitive folk to stare at them for prolonged periods)
Previously: Timescapes
Dusan Cezek’s rather excellent pixel gifs of Hollywood characters.
And if you like these, you may also be partial to his comic book series Pixelomics.
A genuinely groundbreaking development in the art of the Graphics Interchange Format: two white vertical lines added to a video loop which create – mind blown – instant 3D effect.
The solid, dividing strips serve as visual markers for the foreground. Once anything breaks out in font of them, blocking the view of the white dividers, the viewer’s brain immediately translates this as a three-dimensional scene. The best 3D gif creators take note of this effect and tend to choose scenes from movies and clips from videos in which something is initially in the background and makes its way into the foreground, whether it be a person, animal, monster, or projectile object.
Previously: The Gifs That Keep On Giffing and Behind The Gifs
A gif of all eleven Dr Whos running, created by Spanish illustrator Javi De Castro, based on a quote by the eleventh doctor’s companion Clara Oswin Oswald.
Cachemonet is an experimental multimedia website by creative director Tim Nolan, coder Lasse Korsgaard and musician Jib Kidder that displays a never-ending series of random gifs with musical accompaniment.
Spend at least a minute there.
We have it on instead of the radio.
The terrifying approach of a shell guided missile fired from a T-72 T-80 tank reportedly filmed at Jobar outside Damascus in Syria by Lewaa al-Baraa.
Move-busting gifs by Australian artist and animator Neil Sanders for the bi-monthly Loop De Loop animation challenge.
Images created by the Phenakistoscope or ‘Fantascope’ – the first mechanical animation device – invented in 1829 by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau 158 years before Compuserve introduced the world’s first Graphics Interchange Format image in 1987.
In later life, poor Joseph (top left) stared into the sun for 25 seconds to demonstrate the persistence of luminous impressions on the retina and ended up completely blind.
There’s a lesson there for us all.
MORE: an extensive collection of phenakistoscope images archived at The Richard Balzer Collection tumblr.
(Pic: Wikimedia Commons)
