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T. Finn is my favourite artist and he's way cooler than banksy and also he's from brooklyn or whatever.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 02:34 |
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I'm honored that my 3 seconds of a guy tripping on a rake was judged museum-worthy. How did you decide which GIFs to use?
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Everdraed posted:Nope, that one was mine. *toots own horn* This one was one of my favorites  . This one and the one with the running dogs slipping on the floor.Here's the one I made 
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Chernabog posted:Here's the one I made We must have spent ten goddamn minutes figuring out how to get past those things back in... '91? Jesus.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 03:47 |
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Colonel Pancreas posted:This is amazing. I don't suppose there's a way to see all of the GIFs that made it to the wall, is there? The OP linked all the details about the exhibit in the first post! I'm pretty sure if you click on the museum's site it'll give you directions on how to get there.
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I'm not one of the goons, but I'd be down for a museum meetup or some poo poo. Only problem is that I won't be in NYC until after June. I guess we'll see how the schedule goes.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 04:54 |
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Ah crap, I was in NYC just this weekend, would have loved to have seen this. One of the funniest threads ever so this is deserved
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| # ? May 30, 2012 05:11 |
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 Proof that animated gifs belong in a museum.* Good work everybody, and I'm sure Everdraed will get his dues when the MOMA gets around to seeing the Cadbury thread. *or that art really is somethingawful
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| # ? May 30, 2012 06:07 |
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Does anyone have an archive of all the Gif's in the thread? Many don't work anymore.  Definatly going to NYC to see this.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 06:40 |
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This is pretty fantastic stuff. That thread was hilarious. Good job to those who got in, and good job to Something Awful for ruining the credibility of museums as a whole!
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| # ? May 30, 2012 08:32 |
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Congratulations! So much awesome stuff gets produced here - it's nice to see some of it getting acknowledged by the outside world in a positive way.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 08:58 |
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A lovely gif I made is in a museum!
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| # ? May 30, 2012 10:03 |
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Something Awful is a wet dream for new media academics. I saw the blue ball machine gif(s) at ACMI Screen Worlds last year.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 12:42 |
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So does the exhibit talk about new media and viral ideas or is it just the gifs without comment?
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| # ? May 30, 2012 12:55 |
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Any chance of getting a video of the wall? Would love to see it in action.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 13:05 |
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This is one of the coolest things ever. Good job, goons!
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| # ? May 30, 2012 13:30 |
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Sir_Lagsalot posted:I'm honored that my 3 seconds of a guy tripping on a rake was judged museum-worthy. How did you decide which GIFs to use? With the exhibition, I wanted to tell the story of how a community of people who probably don't even know each other AFK are regularly using (moving) image manipulation tools as a natural part of their online communication. While a lot of people in my world are focusing on GIFs as Art, I think what happens in these kinds of threads is a little different and a bit more interesting. Certainly they are all wonderfully creative and "artistic", but I think this sort of expression is more of a kind of media literacy: the result of a growing fluency in media production tools that has opened up another medium for everyday communication. We're starting to use, create, and share images just like we do with text over IM, SMS, or email. Photoshop threads happen all the time, and really great stuff comes out of them regularly, but the quality and accessibility of the What Tripped thread made it a great example for telling the story to a much larger audience. So the primary consideration for selecting the GIFs was accessibility. Classic comedy prat falls were easy choices: rakes, rope traps, trampolines. References to popular films like The Lion King and The Wizard of Oz made sense, because film is at the heart of the Museum's mission. And the meta jokes - Diouf tripping himself, scoring a goal, dribbling off the field - were great because they referenced the project itself. There were lots of great meme and video game references, but these required visitors to have prior knowledge of the source. Certainly some video game references made it in - Mario, Angry Birds, Mike Tyson's Punchout, even Solitaire - but a lot didn't because I decided that they didn't have as wide of an audience. Sorry we couldn't include everyone's GIFs. We made a lot of hard decisions.Another consideration was making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. For example, when we were first assembling the wall, it was full of green monotony and not terribly interesting to look at. So we started paying more attention to GIFs that had placed Diouf off the pitch. Something I always need to think about is: "what is gained from placing content that was originally intended to be viewed on a computer monitor in a physical gallery space?" In this case, separating the GIFs from the paginated message board and putting them closer together creates a visual critical mass and really showcases the wide variety of approaches that were taken.
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tinaun posted:Does anyone have an archive of all the Gif's in the thread? Here's a compilation of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kk6jvemTI8 Chernabog fucked around with this message at May 30, 2012 around 16:14 |
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Chernabog posted:Here's a compilation of all of them:
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| # ? May 30, 2012 16:12 |
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Not only is he an awesome museum curator, he's an awesome poster! Thank you! Edit: I'm poking around on your website and you have some pretty cool stuff. iSpy sounds really fun. Colonel Pancreas fucked around with this message at May 30, 2012 around 16:20 |
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Everdraed posted:Haha, congratulations to everyone who's in the exhibit! That's absolutely awesome, though I'm a little sad none of ones I did made the cut. Would you kindly post the ones you did in this thread so we can properly appreciate them? Because, come on, you're Everdread so those images are going to be inherently awesome!  Also, I'm really surprised none of the ones you sent made the cut.
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Chernabog posted:Here's a compilation of Yeah, seems like some are missing, including the ones I made:  
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| # ? May 30, 2012 16:25 |
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I am going to go to NYC just to see this thing and I don't care if that makes me a huge nerd.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 17:09 |
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If you're just coming from New Jersey or something it's probably OK.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 17:21 |
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Reminder that the rest of the Museum of the Moving Image is awesome as well
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Certainly wasn't expecting this. I can't go to NYC, though. I don't even live in America.Agent Jigga Jigga posted:While a lot of people in my world are focusing on GIFs as Art, I think what happens in these kinds of threads is a little different and a bit more interesting. Certainly they are all wonderfully creative and "artistic", but I think this sort of expression is more of a kind of media literacy: the result of a growing fluency in media production tools that has opened up another medium for everyday communication. We're starting to use, create, and share images just like we do with text over IM, SMS, or email. It's interesting you mention image manipulation and image manipulation tools since I come from an vfx background. For me this was a case of bending a skillset to a particular job (working on a tiny gif instead of a HD/2K/4K video was a certain kind of difficulty), but presumably very few other people were in that position. (I'm curious about how permission for this sort of thing works too. I'm not angry or anything, but as you can imagine it's pretty weird finding out a silly gif you made was and is part of some museum exhibit.)
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| # ? May 30, 2012 19:16 |
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This is absolutely amazing. The original thread was one of my favorites. I'm sad I'm nowhere near NY. I'd really like to see this.
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| # ? May 30, 2012 19:41 |
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Wait my gifs are not in there. That's a ban. This is great though. I had talked with a friend a couple times about curating a one-night-only (at first) "gif exhibit," but we kind of thought nobody would want to see such a thing. It's great to hear it was a success so far. There have been so many quality gif-makin' threads here, most of them lost to time. It's a shame, since it seems they actually belong in a museum.
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What.  This is cool. Does this mean we can call ourselves artists now?
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| # ? May 30, 2012 21:14 |
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toby posted:There have been so many quality gif-makin' threads here, most of them lost to time. It's a shame, since it seems they actually belong in a museum. No thread left behind. 
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Looked through the original thread, some awesome work there! Even got me to go and find a copy of Another World.UFOTofuTacoCat posted:Oh great, several losers getting their dork status certified by a bunch of retards in some nerd 
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T. Couchfucker posted:Reminder that the rest of the Museum of the Moving Image is awesome as well We have a couple of these in australia too, and they are amazing places. At the very least its good to keep an eye on them for the semi regular video game art exhibitions, and some of the experimental video-game installation exhibits they have. There are some wild ideas folks come up with that you never really hear about because they often involve pretty drat unorthodox user interface ideas. If you ever find yourself doubting that video games can be real art, these places will convince you otherwise , and its fun as gently caress.
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I'm not the one to organize, but honestly this sounds like the perfect excuse for GOONCON 2K12. I'd love for that to make a comeback. The exhibition lasts until late September, so there's plenty of time. edit: I'll pledge 2 spots on my couch (it's a big couch), and 2 spots on my floor to the cause... girlfriend willing. brizna fucked around with this message at May 31, 2012 around 06:12 |
| # ? May 31, 2012 06:00 |
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Chernabog posted:Here's a compilation of Holy poo poo that Lion King one 
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| # ? May 31, 2012 07:39 |
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Oh man this is amazing! I remember following that thread non-stop after seeing the rope-trap gif by Trochanter. Please say that one is on display  It was so simple yet had me laughing for a good minute or two.
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Agent Jigga Jigga posted:So the primary consideration for selecting the GIFs was accessibility. Classic comedy prat falls were easy choices: rakes, rope traps, trampolines. References to popular films like The Lion King and The Wizard of Oz made sense, because film is at the heart of the Museum's mission. And the meta jokes - Diouf tripping himself, scoring a goal, dribbling off the field - were great because they referenced the project itself.  Just kidding. :P This is awesome and hilarious and I never would have expected an SA thread would make into a museum.
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Chernabog posted:This one was one of my favorites That's too bad, because that was my favorite one, no joke.
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Pick posted:That's too bad, because that was my favorite one, no joke. What is this one referencing? I think I'm the person Agent Jigga Jigga had in mind when he considered accesability.
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