tiled variation (very trippy)
a predecessor version:
the top image isn't boring at all; I used the literal file name as the post title because it's a nice alliteration and it's modest.
August 2010
Forest and variations
Made this forest with MSPaint (well, technically MSPaintbrush, the older version, but there's nothing here that couldn't be done in the current one--oh wait, not true, the older model has a little more variety in brush sizes on the toolbar):
Posted it to dump.fm and Crunkus did several animations using it as a setting:
with traversing jello llama posted by AGT528
handheld llama tracking closeup
Greimas Square Explains All Once Again
Artnet's Ben Davis recently posted the above chart but forgot to add filetypes so I plugged a few in (in red). I was being snotty (I don't think Davis actually knows what an animated GIF is or why an artist would use one), but this annotated chart actually kind of works. Read Davis's piece if you want to see what the art world thinks of media artists, social and new. (hat tip bill)
Update: See also: visual explanations
Update 2: Got a little carried away on the ad hominem tip--this post has been dialed back to semi-polite status.