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Whether’s the art in Apple’s app store or Amazon’s prime day gifs, I continually to be amazed by some of illustrations coming out of the world’s biggest brands.
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Chris McDaniel is a plumber at a hotel chain in Tampa Bay, Florida. But he’s also a talented GIF artist.
He recently partnered up with illustrators from online print store Society6 to animate some art pieces.
I’ve always loved the world of psychedelic art and how people would turn the original art into flashy gifs. I wanted to add to the world of it because I always saw the same things. I ran across some work that George Redhawk did and was fascinated by the motion art. It took me about a year to find out what it was called and how to did it. Once I found out the method, well, you can say the rest is history.
I have a lot of people asking to show them how I do it. But I can’t. If you’re truly passionate about motion art, then you’ll take the time that is required to learn your own style.
I wrote earlier this week about the paradox of hoarding information so it’s only natural I share my reading list with you like I do every weekend.
Facebook has failed to invent any new behaviors or even innovate on the behaviors that were commonplace on the service. For instance, Poke is a grand-pappy of Snapchat.
Facebook is too big and too distracted by business priorities to create another popular platform. So it’s just going to acqui-hire the likes of Instagram and WhatsApp. Even Zuckerberg admits that Facebook will exist as a bunch of mobile apps without Facebook’s branding on them.
Admit It, GIFs Suck. So Why Won’t They Die?
“It is like a whole new medium. Cinemagraphs is a whole new thing. People have understood, with the web, we have images, we have video—people understand what to do with that,” Burg said. “But this kind of in-between thing is a very new phenomenon.”
GIFs have been around for a while but exploded in popularity because of Tumblr. It’s still a bit unclear though how to make GIFs as much as it is to pronounce the word. Vine has also helped in mainstreaming the little looping pieces of art.
I personally love GIFs as a way to quickly digest soccer highlights. But I also love everyday GIFs, like this.
You are letting it grow up protected from the harsh world of putting food on the table and meeting deadlines and targets. It will do that one-day for you. It will do that in spades. But right now, it is just a child. It wants to play around for a bit. It needs time to work out its place in this world.
Gmail started as a side project. So did Nasty Gal and many other businesses that are now legitimate. It turns that if you really love doing something a career may meet you half-way, and that’s when you pick another passion to work for free on.
DOCUMENTARY FILM: FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
Maier was an inveterate wanderer and self-taught photographer, favouring a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera, with an uncanny ability to get close to people from all walks of life.
You think you’re weird (and different) until you see someone like Vivian Maier. She’s my new muse.
Soccer, Particularly England’s Premier League, Growing in Popularity in New York Creative Circles
“It is often said that baseball blew up in America in the age of radio, and the N.F.L. rose to dominance once television took over,” Mr. Bennett said. “Soccer is the perfect sport for the Internet era. American fans can follow games and instantaneously track information from global leagues both big and small, feeling as close to their favorite teams as if they lived within a thrown beer of their stadium.”
Soccer has come a long in the United States from being labelled as the Commie sport in the 70s to the sport of intellectuals and culture seekers today.
All it took for me to become a fan was the one game I went to at Highbury Stadium in London to watch Arsenal. Now I can follow the team online and talk about it in depth with other Americans on Twitter and Facebook. It’s ok for hipsters to like soccer, as long as it means more Americans play it and we win the World Cup before I die.
Thievery Corporation’s Rob Garza on how “we live in a streaming world”
“When you run a small independent label, at a certain point, it becomes like trying to squeeze a dry lemon. It’s a lot of work, and you’re not getting a lot of juice.” – Rob Garza
Vinyl is durable, like a good conversation. Digital music, on the other hand, is as ephemeral as a Snap(chat). There’s little connection with the music and the artist since listeners just skip on to the next beat. The iPhone/iPod made the music library <a href="http://bombtune.com/post/83087350910/collecting-dust“>infinite and streaming has made music more of a commodity. For some bands, however, the digital world has been a boon.
Did I mention that I still miss John Peel.
“What three things do you need to do today?”
You should be able to instantly answer this simple question, each day, every day, for the rest of your life. Without any tools other than the brain you were born with.
You don’t need a pen or a computer to write down your to-do list. It should already be in your brain. If you can’t identify your tasks, then you’re ignoring them and might want to consider scratching them off the list. And after you finish, celebrate with a done list.
