abigail lloyd

animated gifs by abigail lloyd. see more here.

[all abigail lloyd. untitled.]

the bar mitzvah and other tales of living in stereo

a very nice series over at square america that takes stereo slides from the 1950s and turns them into animated gifs to thrilling 3-d-esque effect. see them all here.

[all from square america. from the series the bar mitzvah and other tales of living in stereo.]

sweet gifs

stills from the website 'sweet gifs'. have yourself a visit here.

[screengrabs from sweetgifs.com.]

sally mckay

animated gifs by sally mckay. see more here.

[all sally mckay. top to bottom: loon. finch. tree wind.]

young curators, new ideas

this week is your last chance ever to see the exhibition YOUNG CURATORS, NEW IDEAS at bond street gallery, the show closes on saturday, september 6th. my curatorial contribution is titled 'graphics interchange format' and it includes 67 amazing animated GIFs by:

victor boullet, tyler coburn, petra cortright, c. coy, daniel everett, thobias fäldt & per englund, martin fengel, jason fulford, nicolas grider, pierre hourquet, konst & teknik, eke kriek, emily larned, matt macfarland, katja mater, kelci mcintosh, ilia ovechkin, robert overweg, m. river, noel rodo-vankeulen, asha schechter, trevor shimizu, jo-ey tang, anne de vries, karly wildenhaus and damon zucconi.

you can also read some press about the show here, here, here, and here.

[all from graphics interchange format, part of the exhibition young curators, new ideas. 2008. top to bottom: noel rodo-vankeulen. father. petra cortright. 45j56h7.gif. ilia ovechkin. weeds. karly wildenhaus. untitled (bird).]

5 things • wyne veen

i like the strange feeling you get from looking at wyne veen's photos. it made me curious to hear what her 5 most favorite things in the world might be. you can see a previous post about wyne's work here and even more stuff here.

1/ animated gifs

i like animated gifs a lot. i think i've seen every single one on the world wide web. these are some of my favorites.

2/ david shrigley's bonnie prince billy video

i also enjoy playing ping pong, on the computer and especially in real life. you can see a post about david's photos here and see more of his stuff right here.

3/ tv5

i like to hear the french tv channel tv5 in the background while working. they have nice and strange movies and they repeat them the next day, so it's good for learning french.

4/ miltos manetas painting

this is a painting by miltos manetas. he is involved in a thing called neen and likes to play with words. 'neen' is a bit of a weird way to say 'no' in dutch. it's ancient and formal. when i used to ask my father a question he would always enthusiastically answer by directing me to the dictionary...something which i am only now slowly beginning to appreciate. this is the second piece of art i would like to own. the first is a big dutch vanitas painting, it doesn't really matter which one but there should be flowers in it.

5/ charles bukowski

charles bukowski books and poems, they make you feel really relaxed about your life. unfortunately he's dead, but there is a nice documentary about him called 'born into this.' he has some foxy ex-girlfriends.

jillian mcdonald

canadian artist jillian mcdonald thinks of her zombie portraits as interactive photographic animations. she was inspired by "the rising cult of zombies in popular culture, where zombie gatherings and zombie lore flourish." hmmmm. see more of these here.

[both jillian mcdonald. from the series zombie portraits. 2007.]