I ❤ couldn’t wait ❤ to see FriendsWithYou’s solo show “:)” at the Hole Gallery and their inflatable installation Rainbow City at High Line Park, New York. Here’s sorta what it was like!
Here’s some of the FWY stuff around our place – [Kid Robot blind boxes, stickers, plush Albino Mr. TTT, 'Blackfoot' print]. I’d like this for my birthday, please.
I dearly wish animated gifs could have a soundtrack. You’d hear some Technologic-era Daft Punk at this juncture, so have your ears use their imagination. This bad boy weighs almost 2 megs, but that’s ok. We’re all friends here.
Apparently there’s some sort of animated gif renaissance goin’ down. I didn’t know they needed rebirthing. To me, this amazing format—low bandwidth, low tech, no plugins required—was always one of the beauties of the web.
The limitations of looped animation force you to think subtly. What can you do, what can you say with only a few frames to communicate?
In celebration of the reemergence of my favourite 8-bit art form, here’s an epic animated gif piece I created for my author’s profile when I worked on the design portal Nice to Meet You, a project of France’s Hello Hikimori.
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