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The Wall: BORN IN 1987: The Animated Gif

The Photographers Gallery, London, is hosting an exhibit celebrating and examining the animated GIF format:

Part of our extended programme includes a new digital display named The Wall,an exhibition space for screen media. The Wall consists of a 2.7 x 3m Sharp video wall, situated on the ground floor and visible to everyone visiting the building and those passing by on the street.

The Wall forms part of a research programme which aims to explore issues concerning the digital image, its dissemination and display on-screen. The Wall’s programme will include experimental commissions, collaborations and participation.

For the opening show, The Wall will address a unique form of image which is best experienced via a screen: the animated gif. The GIF is an image file format created in 1987 by CompuServe as a portable, low bandwidth image file easily rendered by a web browser. Restricted to only 256 colours, and able to store multiple frames in a single image, the GIF brought animated movement to the static webpages of the 1990s in an era before YouTube and Flash.

The show runs from 19 May to 1 July 2012.

You can find out more about the show here, as well as visiting the show’s official Tumblr blog here

Source: thephotographersgallery.org.uk

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GIFPOP!

New Kickstarter campaign for service that easily converts animated gifs into physical animated lenticular prints - video embedded below:

Gifpop is a tool to make custom cards from animated gifs, using the magic of lenticular printing.
We’ve been working over the past several months on a way to print animated gifs onto lenticular cards. Each sheet of lenticular film has many tiny lenses, which allow us to print around ten frames of animation onto small cards. It’s been around since the 1940s, but has mostly been used for children’s toys. But we think that gifs and lenticular printing are two simple, lo-fi technologies that were made for each other.
We’ve been doing tons of test prints with different materials and different types of film, and have started working with a lenticular manufacturer that will allow us to do custom prints. We’ve also been building out a website where you can upload a gif, select a portion to print, and order a gif card in a variety of sizes. We’ve been sharing and showing these gif cards among friends — it’s been really fun, and addictive to play with. And now we’re finally got everything in place to do our first big production run, and we need your help.

One of the incentives you can receive from backing are print examples from three top-notch artists who post their work on Tumblr: DVDP, Mr Div and 89-A.

A service in a simpler, easier format like this has been crying out to be made available for ages (I’ve tried it before myself using expensive software and services, which can be trying …).

You can find out more about the Kickstarter project here

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Whimsically Dark Animated GIFs by Bill Domonkos

San Francisco-based filmmaker and stereoscopist Bill Domonkos designs macabre and comically inclined animated GIFs with the use of forgotten vintage photographs. He uses a nonsensical sense of humor to add psychedelic intimate objects, which are out of place, such as spaceships, mushrooms and animals.

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Source: culturenlifestyle.com

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Atmospheric Apocalyptic Digital Art from Alex Andreyev

Hello, my name is Alex Andreyev. I’m an artist living in Saint - Petersburg. I’ve been drawing, painting and doing graphic design over last 20 years. My last project is an animated film “Koo! Kin-Dza-Dza” (senior concept artist), the winner of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2013 (best animated film).
You can buy all my pictures in a high resolution for print on my site - alexandreev.com/

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Behold the Flapjack Octopus!

Does this octopus look familiar? The “flapjack octopus” is a rarely observed, deep-sea species, but you may know it better as the inspiration for the animated character Pearl in Finding Nemo. It was collected by our sister organization, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and it’s on exhibit now in our Tentacles special exhibition, which opened this morning for members, and tomorrow (April 12) for the general public!

These images show the flapjack octopus (Opisthoteuthis sp.) in the wild, and in on exhibit. We use a red light to display this species. Since the octopus can’t see red light, it thinks it’s in the darkness of the deep sea, its natural environment.

Very little is known about the life history of these animals. They’re one of the cirrate octopuses – a tiny group within the overall family. We may yet discover more species in this group—with the help of MBARI. They’re helping us learn about many deep-sea species, through video observation and occasionally collecting individuals. One of the flapjack octopuses even laid eggs in our behind-the-scenes holding area. That first batch didn’t mature, but we’ll try again if any other individuals reproduce.

Learn more about the exhibit

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Flying Lotus - You're Dead!

Art by Shintaro Kago

Animated by Strangeloop

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When people compare the greatness that is The Simpsons to other animated shows like Family Guy it makes me want to set myself on fire

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I went on a date last year and jokingly said “Don’t ask me I’m just a girl” and giggled at a 35 year old man thinking he’d get the reference and instead he said “that’s what I like to hear.”

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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