Comments on: IMG MGMT: Psychotronic GIFs

By: kim

kim — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:32:54 +0000

this is my mascott in the background of my myspace page. check it out.
go lo-fi!

By: tom moody

tom moody — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:37:11 +0000

Yes, I got one of the punching cat without the author’s logo.

That Best of the Web 2006 went down when Michael Bell-Smith’s website, ahem, disappeared. I kept an online record of the cats:

http://www.digitalmediatree.com/tommoody/general/?38511

By: Art Fag City

Art Fag City — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:25:20 +0000

Didn’t you link up that punching cat on the best of the web too?

The dog humping that kids leg, and her running off screening is pretty funny!

By: tom moody

tom moody — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:16:27 +0000

A rambunctious (not work safe) collection of GIFs that includes one of my “optical disc” animations being hotlinked from, as coincidence would have it, Paddy’s blog:

http://forums.myspace.com/t/4102189.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewthread

By: tom moody

tom moody — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:19:41 +0000

Thanks, c.p. When Journalpics.net first appeared it just scraped images off LiveJournal users’ pages which felt like looking in rear windows even though the pages were public.
The scraper went to hell (literally) when it started relying so heavily on 4Chan and other sites featuring “faces of death” and porn loops. To find good GIFs there now you have to have a kind of nictitating membrane that shields your psyche from acts of disgusting sadism before they “register.”
It’s true it’s all part of “life” but filtering unwanted data is also part of life.

By: c.p.

c.p. — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:46:21 +0000

good one Tom. The vertical line gifs [verb] a memory of ‘Rear Window’… Stewart in wheelchair and Kelly in the blue looking out to the worlds each their own call and groove. In this scene the viewer starts to get in on the act that irregularity is what Stewart is sniffing for.

By: tom moody

tom moody — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:50:23 +0000

Thanks. I have been enjoying L.M.’s blown up GIFs on her and Sally’s blog. It is nice to have a small dedicated group who believes in this stuff.

I would wager that person at Rhizome who didn’t like looped GIFs somewhere else claimed to have invented them back in the ’90s.

By: L.M.

L.M. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:59:29 +0000

Reminds me of when I was reading the Rhizome discussion pages on web/net 2.0, someone commented that they couldn’t stand looking at looped GIFS. I can’t imagine not being transported by these things, I can watch short loops for hours. Nice essay Tom.

By: Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog

Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:54:06 +0000

Good read. I think if someone viewed enough of these at once it would make them insane. :)