Wish I was at the circus

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4D Class Final - I made a flip book GIFs of selfies!

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Film Response "The Artist is Present"

Marina Abramovic's documentary conveyed that performance art doesn't have to be all crazy like rolling around in meat and blood ( although back in her days Marina was quite controversial with cutting herself and nudity) but something more quiet and immensely personal like eye contact without speaking. Her audience is apart of the performance and 3 quarters of a million people came to see her at the MoMa where she was "literally present."

Marina uses the human body to make statements, provocative and challenging to the audience. The performances can either be intense or flat, like sitting motionless for weeks but leave a resounding effect on the viewer. She mentions twice that performance art it about the state of mind of the artist, I think something like this, which is very true. It takes strength and stamina and a feeling to create something. 

I really respect Ms. Abramovic and wish I had the chance to see her when she was doing this exhibit! 

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Exercise #5 Verb List

1. To execute 

2. To create

3. To deliver 

4. To destroy

5. To fry

6. To bloom

7. To flaunt

8. To predict

9. To breakdown

10. To scrape

11. To fluff

12. To remember

13. To bang

14. To drag

15. To hijack 

16. To rally

17. To wander

18. To fabricate

19. To sprinkle

20. To vanish

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Better late than never..I ran into tons of issues like youtube muting my video for copywrite claims..but my Project 4 is the becoming of life and decaying of life and the path one takes in between. The sped up projection of life is not how we normally see things because sometimes life happens too slowly to stop and notice. Or it happens to quickly for our eyes to see like turning on the lights. Either way, These vanishing points we do not see require technology of the future to become life. 

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Project #4 Vanishing and Becoming. Normalcy comes in and out of this video, establishing what was needed for this project. Really happy how this turned out.

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Nice one, nice music and the visuals are mesmerizing 

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The music video I created for my favorite song I could never get sick of. It incorporates old men dancing, the night sky, trains, and cute pets reflecting their lives. The music and the moving images I feel fit nicely with each other, I want the audience to understand the longing in the song that I feel when I listen to it. 

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Yellowstone park in the winter...it looks like the fog never ends

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This one tells quite a long story for a gif about a dog and his toy, which all dogs do.

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Super cool!! I wish the models were walking though. But still so cool this is what I wish more photographs could be like, moving subtle motions bring it to life.

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Beautiful, relaxing cinemagraph gif of a gorgeous pool, I wish I went swimming once this summer. But it felt like it rained all summer! 

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Simple but still animated looking New Yorker magazine cover gif

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Very creepy animal crossing gif, makes me think of this creepypasta I read some time ago about a character who couldn't leave the town because everyone were turning into slaves or something? I have to find the story again now.

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Mesmerizing circle of hands forever...

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Old gif I find hilarious, poor puppy being chased by a plastic alligator  

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Response to GIF links

I find it interesting how old GIFs are, the ones you see today on buzzfeed and in forums are usually small snippets of reality shows or movies, but the older GIFs that evolved into today what we know now were actually those annoying small animated icons from the early web! The "Two hundred and fifty six colors" video showcases them well, where they started off as spinning wheels and arrows when a webpage was loading to blinking banners used on Myspace like the Chicagoist article points out. I do not consider gifs trashy as discussed in some of the links, I think they are more advanced than simple photographs and tell more of a story and give more meaning than a picture. 

What I found incredible is the sale and promotion of this digital art. I don't see internet art as something you can buy or credit the artist with per se (www.ifnoyes.com is pretty cool though) but I would never buy it. The small neverending loops can tell a story so quickly though that film and videos do not and the GIF will never go away for that reason. New media artists have apparently been selling animated GIFs for years which is crazy to me and that one article was from 2011...