We've all doodled in math class, but not like this! Alma Alloro elevated doodling on graph paper into an art form. Check out her gallery of animated GIFs over at Co.DESIGN:
The collection, Further Abstracts, shows geometric doodles sliding and spinning with life on plain old graph paper. It’s basically what every day-dreaming trig student wishes would happen with his time-wasting sketches. In fact, that was more or less Alloro’s impulse for creating them.
"I made many still image drawings in the same style before," the Tel Aviv-born artist told Co.Design, "and was curious to see what it would look like in animation." But in addition to being relatively high quality and easy to disseminate, Alloro thinks GIFs represent a new kind of frontier in visual art--something related to but separate from its older sibling, video art. "Video ?art began as a comment on cinema?,? and I think it was never capable to become free from that role," Alloro explained. "Now?,? when videos occupy about 50?%? of any important biennial, it seems like GIFs are replacing video-art and becoming the new avant-garde ?.?.. It is also part of this new trend to bring the Internet to a gallery space and vice versa."
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So therefore every picture of an elephant is a travesty?
Please. I'm all for animal rights, but this is not the place. This is both clever and hilarious.
This is a posting a pic of an abused victim and then making fun of the victim, not funny or clever.
Poor thing.
comment behaveour,clean language and keeping this place sooooo positive.
But they are absolutely silent when it comes to their posters animal torture fetish.
Does words really hurt more than suffering animals??
Strange ways to prioritise here.
Style over substance when it fits the moderators i guess.
You find pictures of animals in distress "hilarious"?
Quite a strange sense of humor you got there.
I giggled. So freakin' sue me.
Because that was an animal in captivity with an implied emotional state based on text printed over it.
How does anyone here even know if this elephant is in fact in captivity? Oh you saw some high walls and a gate, that 's brilliant. Those are only used for captivity in Asia, or so I've heard.
As for it being actually depressed, it's only implied by the text, we actually know NOTHING about that context of this photograph.
Craig, we are all aware of the powerful context of a concentration camp, whereas here, you just made an assumption about what's happening. So no, they are not alike. You just compared horrific cruelty with something that only has implied context.
I am a huge elephant fan and I know they can become legitimately depressed, so I don't find this image funny, but some of you are blowing this image way out of proportion.
If you take a photo of someone waiting for a bus and staring at their feet, you could easily slap something about depression over it. But it in no way means that person is ACTUALLY depressed, especially if it's intended as a joke.
and this joke is irrelephant, it was made long ago lol.
http://www.snorgtees.com/anything-unrelated-elephants