The Age of Giffing It

Just when you thought the ancient GIF animation format is passe, or cheesy at best, someone hands you a surprise around the next corner.

Such is Micael Reynaud’s simple yet creative collection of animated GIFs. By the way, GIF is merely a file extension which ever since 1987 stands for Graphics Interchange Format. Back in those day GIFs were quite minimalistic. It is only in the recent years, probably due to the increased performance improvement in most surfers’ internet connections, that animated images of several Megabytes in file size have become acceptable for general viewing. Such are these GIF animations of Micael Reynaud as well.

 

GIF animation by Micael Reynaud

 

Some people are amazed, others are critical. Does a creative assembly of existing artwork count as new art?  What is your opinion?

You are not stuck in Traffic

You wanna see something brilliant?

There is this poster ad… it goes like this:

YOU ARE NOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC.

YOU ARE TRAFFIC.

 

Brilliant, right? Makes perfect sense too. Anytime anyone is “stuck in traffic” and uses that phrase they are externalizing the problem, like it is something outside of them, something that has nothing to do with them, when it is actually quite the other way around. You, and others like you, are traffic.

But it gets better!

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