My love for .gifs spawned a while back when I first started using tumblr during my freshman year of high school. Back then I really loved photoshopping simple little graphics with song lyrics on them, partly because it got me a lot of attention and followers, and partly because, you know, art. Even though it was stupid art. So I did that for awhile before I thought, hey you know what people would really like? You know what would maximize the hipster rating of my silly images of song lyrics? If I made animated silly things of song lyrics!!!!!!
1. The Smiths 2. Bright Eyes
Eventually I moved away from animating text to animating images. I was drawn to that type of hipster-ironic-girly-psychedelic aesthetic. I don't really know how else to describe it.
It wasn't until college that I started thinking about the medium and about the .gif's place in my art practice. I like how it is an exclusively web based medium. You can't put a .gif in a museum, for instance. I mean, I guess you could but it sounds very silly. At that time I was also thinking about being a teenager in the suburbs, and how creating .gifs - a sometimes very tedious process, since I animate frame-by-frame - was something I did to kill the boredom accumulated from living in such a sleepy, small city. That led to the creation of these
I really like how evil and wormy these two (three?) characters look, and I think the animation is pretty mesmerizing too. I like to think that I was like these things when I was a teen (... I'm still a teen?). I had like really evil thoughts, loved fantasizing about revenge, but I was perceived as a sweet little girl. And I really like that contradiction. I'm glad I found these things! I kind of want to do more work with them.
Anyways yeah.... That's all I got for today. I should go back to finishing my essay. Love <3
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