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Amazing Kinetic Sculptures by Bob Potts

Amazing Kinetic Sculptures by Bob Potts kinetic sculpture gifs

Kinetic sculptor Bob Potts creates beautiful kinetic sculptures that mimic the motions of flight and the oars of boats. Despite their intricacy the pieces are surprisingly minimal, Potts seems to use only the essential components needed to convey each motion without much ornamentation or flourish. There is very little information online about the artist, however blogger Daniel Busby managed to get a brief interview with the 70-year-old artist last year. If you liked this, also check the work of Dukno Yoon . (via devid sketchbook)

By Christopher on March 28, 2013 • gifs kinetic sculpture

Animated Lake Michigan Ice Floes Captured by Dave Gorum

Animated Lake Michigan Ice Floes Captured by Dave Gorum lakes Lake Michigan ice gifs Chicago

Even after living here for 14 years I’m always struck by the juxtaposition of Chicago’s towering steel skyline against the brutal midwest winter as it transforms the lakefront into an arctic landscape. Dave Gorum, co-founder and creative director over at Carbonmade, went out last week and shot some footage of the densely packed ice chunks as they sloshed around in Lake Michigan off Lake Shore Drive and then converted them into these great gifs. You can see more over on his Tumblr. (via tumblr radar)

William Wegman’s First Animated GIF

William Wegmans First Animated GIF gifs dogs

Photographer William Wegman has created his first animated GIF. That is all. (via this isn’t happiness)

By Christopher on March 9, 2013 • dogs gifs

Trippy Animated GIFs by Matthew DiVito aka ‘Mr. Div’

Trippy Animated GIFs by Matthew DiVito aka Mr. Div gifs

With over 100,000 followers on Tumblr, Boston-based motion graphics designer Matthew DiVito (aka mr. div) is probably one of the most popular artists making animated gifs today. DiVito works with a combination of After Effects and Cinema 4D to create each image which appear to be inspired by 1970-80s era motion graphics with a distinctly modern twist. These are just a few of my favorites, but you can see dozens more right here.

By Christopher on March 4, 2013 • gifs

The Most Beautiful Nature GIFs on the Web

The Most Beautiful Nature GIFs on the Web nature gifs

It’s not everyday you discover what could be your new favorite blog, but lucky for me that day was today. A Netherlands-based visual artist named Marinus has been at the helm of his blog Head Like an Orange since October 2011. He takes short excerpts of wildlife footage and crops, loops and times them to create mesmerizing moments of life. What you see here is just from the last few days, there are literally hundreds of these and they are well worth a few minutes of your day. Go now! (via jessica olin)

By Christopher on February 19, 2013 • gifs nature

The Mind-Warping Animated GIF Art of Paolo Čerić

The Mind Warping Animated GIF Art of Paolo Čerić gifs digital

Digital artist Paolo Čerić is currently studying information processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Croatia where his experiments with processing and digital art have resulted in a steady stream of fascinating animations which he publishes on his blog Patakk. Čerić tells me that he began about two years ago knowing very little about digital art or animation, but was fascinated watching other coders create art with code. For a while he simply tried to mimic other animations he’d seen, but lately has truly developed his own personal style that varies from pulsating geometric patterns to glitch art and everything in between.

By Christopher on January 24, 2013 • digital gifs

The Animated ‘GIF-iti’ of INSA

The Animated GIF iti of INSA street art graffiti gifs animation

Fine artist and designer INSA creates elaborately painted walls that are photographed in sequence to create these amazing, psychedelic animated gifs. His latest piece (top 3 images) is a collaboration with artist Stanley Donwood called Hollywood Dooom to help celebrate the release of a new album for Atoms for Peace, AMOK, for which Donwood did the album artwork. INSA painted the entire exterior of XL Recordings four times to create the frames for the animation. Of the work he says:

My challenge was to take two very static items, a beautiful lino-cut and a less beautiful box of a building, and bring them to life. After a week of sweating in the Los Angeles late summer sun re-painting the whole building several times I got there. Animated as a continuous GIF it may only live online but some would argue that is where most now live there lives…

You can see more of INSA’s gif work and other pieces on his blog. (via the creator’s project)

By Christopher on December 10, 2012 • animation gifs graffiti street art

Cloned Video Animations by Erdal Inci

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Cloned Video Animations by Erdal Inci video art gifs animation

Filmmaker, graffiti artist, and photographer Erdal Inci lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey where he has been experimenting with cloned motion in video since 2004. Over the past few months Inci has converted several of these hypnotic videos into gifs and posted them online, above are a couple of my favorites.