Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

Oh Mitt.

more twin peaks!!!!

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Truly, this is the thread that keeps on giving. Every one of these <Mark Cousins voice> "blew...my...mind".

laurie anderson gif gave me a seizure

Laurie Anderson shows up the crappy refresh rate of my monitor.
John Foxx needs to use that GIF as the front page of his website.

thanks!

the laurie anderson one was my first foray into the exciting but somewhat baffling world of "data bending". as always, i'm years behind the times, but i was reading a newer kenneth goldsmith book (Uncreative Writing) and he briefly talked about how you can open images in a text editor, they show up as piles and piles of gibberish looking code, and then you can make some random adjustments to that series of characters, resave the text file as a jpg (or bmp or whatever), and it results in an altered image. the offset laurie andersons in the animation above were made like that.

i'm not sure if that's how all glitch-style animations are made - maybe it is. but it's a cool new area to work with. and plus, i want to experiment more with mixing in glitchy/random alterations with more static overlays.

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Tried to retweet that awhile ago, but for some strange reason, someone's got their twitter locked.

i do?! man, everything's messed up. my website is suddenly totally fucked, too, no idea why!

i think i just unlocked it? aw man what a mess

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this data bending thing is the great discovery of the day

that last one is a dope optical illusion

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The drinking bird hips expansion is freaking me out!
I love the phone/hand/plane tho I can't figure out what it spells, though I will soon enough.

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What did you think of the Kenneth Goldsmith book ZS?

i liked it a lot! although, to be honest, even though it was already pretty thin, the whole thing probably could have been boiled down to a single, kickass 20 page essay on appropriation.

and i'll once again display my terrible naiveté, but for me it was valuable reading just because it had never really occurred to me that some people would connect things like manipulating found images into looping gifs to a much long line of artistic traditions (duchamp, warhol, sampling in music, etc). but even though i appreciate goldsmith's perspective, i'm coming from a totally different angle. goldsmith will openly proclaim that he doesn't care if anyone actually reads his "uncreative writing". so in his books where he chronicled every single thing he said for a week, or laboriously copied out every single word from an edition of the NYT, he doesn't expect anyone to actually peruse the resulting work and get any satisfaction out of it, but rather for people to just consider the underlying concept of the piece and argue about THAT. which is awesome. but coming from my tiny gif part of the world (and def not comparing myself to goldsmith in any way), it's the exact opposite - i just want things i make to be visually interesting. sometimes there's a rough "concept" behind a gif before i start work on it (e.g., use four shifting colors in the foreground, and the same shifting four colors in the background so that occasionally the bg and foreground are indistinguishable for a frame), and since reading his book i definitely think about that kind of stuff a lot more than i did before, but it's still kind of a tertiary thought.

anyway, way tmi about all that, but i'd recommend checking it out, or at least the two chapters that are posted for free online (the introduction and Why Appropration?).

I read it a couple of weeks ago, and I really enjoyed it - I was just interested in how you found it from a visual arts point of view (my interest was in concrete poetry (and it's descendents) and someone mentioned that he discussed it in the book).

I agree about the 'kickass 20 page essay point'. Still, given something to think about - he's very good at conveying the sheer possibilities we have in a world of text, and how little we've actually explored these ideas.

Also reminded me of the frustrations that led me away from experimental poetry/text - the resistance of our mainstream culture to any influence from poetry. The idea of a poetic Warhol, as he discusses, is such an appealing one, but I just don't see it happening. So the avant-garde ends up talking to itself endlessly and fruitlessly (same in other art forms too, obv, that lack the immediacy of the visual, or the musical). But then I get easily frustrated.

always brilliant z

thanks forks!

Soul Train gif is so good!

soul train gif was truly a drunken animation!

god i love soul train

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If they ever sell animated t-shirts in head shops, you'll make a fortune.

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scrollin thru yr tumblr. listenin to funky town. feels right.

Was surprised by the lack of Edwin Morgan references in the Kenneth Goldsmith book, so I thought I would re-appropriate one of his poems in your (and his) honour; I only changed the title.

Siesta of a Hungarian professional non-animator Snake

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looooool

I don't know anything about Edwin Morgan! I'll have to check him out.

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(^^these are just mods of a video i took of rafael lozano-hemmer's Voice Array, which i saw at bitforms gallery in nyc this weekend. you speak into a microphone on the left edge, it transforms the audio into a pulsating light, and then slides your light recording in on the left side, bumping each of the previous 200 or so recordings one spot to the right, and knocking the one that was on the far right (the 200th recording, or whatever the number was) "out" of the piece, so that the audio plays alone on a speaker. pretty cool!)

this is an old psych gif technique (aka 3 years old) but whatever

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is the image actually twisting or are my eyes fooled into thinking that, ZS?

There is a small twist, but not as much as it appears. (Put your finger on one of the heads and you can see it.) I've had the flu a couple times where my vision was like this - very uncomfortable.

there are 6 frames. the first three are the original image, the original image rotated 1 degree, and then the original image rotated 2 degrees. frames 4-6 are the same as 1-3, but with inverted colors.

it's a pretty common effect in the gif world, i think, but until recently i couldn't figure out exactly how it was done.

now i can make people barf whenever i want!

*wields the ultimate power*

Have you seen this blog?

http://fluxmachine.tumblr.com/

WOW

like those a LOT

yeah, good find

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Also, I submitted a handful of my gifs to the Moving the Still gif festival / tumblr. my walking camouflage person was just posted today and quickly picked up a ton of notes, so i'm hoping that they'll look closely at my stuff when they make their final selection for the gif festival in miami. i could get to meet michael stipe! (one of the panel members)

Wow, awesome.

So good!

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also a drunken youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA7XRYEJDKM
images via http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com/
text via twitter.com/fart
sound via lee greenwood, patriotic legend

sorry for spamming this today, but The Daily Dot just did a little blurb on one of my old animations without even talking to me:

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/morning-gif-paul-klee/

probably because the last time they "interviewed" me it was really ridiculous and i gave terrible answers

you're a genius and stuff