Search results for: “gif”

  • Mother Oh God Mother

    The shower scene in the movie Psycho is probably the most famous scene in the history of cinema. It is both vivid and violent. Mother Oh God Mother encapsulates every shot in that scene turned into GIFs. More than anything, this project showed the potential of the animated GIF to help make sense of the intentions behind…

  • Don’t Touch That Dial

    A collection of animated GIFs that feature short moments of television from programming and commercials of the 70s and 80s. Each nostalgic bit is framed by a digital representation of a television from that era. Currently hosted on Tumblr, the array of TVs has attracted over 8000 wistful followers. They have reblogged countless times these scraps…

  • Animating Transit

    Michael Branson Smith, 2014 Animating Transit is a collaboration with co-curator and artist Ryan Seslow and the NY Transit Museum. Working with the museum’s photo archive, we invited artists to create a variety of animated GIFs that were featured as part of the museum’s series Platform – Creative Musings on Mass Transit. The work was presented in an installation on the platform of…

  • An MBS Special Presentation

    An analog TV broadcast network was built with a Raspberry Pi and a 5 milliwatt TV transmitter for the interactive Console Living Room exhibit at the University of Mary Washington, April 2015. Using a Friday daytime and evening 1984 television line-up for CBS with period-specific advertising re-inserted, 16 hours of programming was created and broadcast over 615.25 MHz (UHF…

  • Namaste Don

    In the last episode of AMC’s period drama, Mad Men, set in the 1960s through the early 1970s, the main character, Donald Draper (played by Jon Hamm) has a final and highly unpredictable closing moment of Zen, seated in the lotus pose. This site, Namaste Don, is a playful call encouraging other GIF artists to play…

  • Glitch Scapes

    This is a relatively new project in which I’ve been working with photographs of landscapes taken in the past and applying some glitch algorithms followed by some post-processing. There seems to be something oddly alluring about the disruption of a beautiful environment with artificial artifacts. May it be that we see so much through a digital lens now,…

  • Alfred Hitchcock film posters animated

    Animated Alfred Hitchcock Movie Posters: Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, North By Northwest, and Rear Window. Spring 2012. I wrote a bit about how they became featured in a variety of culture blogs via reddit: Bustle, Fast Company, the creators project, El Huffington Post, El Hype 3, Buzzfeed, Collater.al, Miklos Vince’s Tumblr, Bloody Disgusting, il Post, The Roosevelts, Wired, and Gizmodo’s Sploid.

  • Harper, 1966 HTML Poster

    Harper, 1966 HTML Poster

    Harper, 1966 HTML Poster My time with making GIFs, in particular animated movie posters, has been on suspension now for about three years. Sad in some ways, but I’ve been busy. The effort has been replaced primarily with learning to code with HTML/CSS/JS and more importantly learning to teach how to code. I hope I’ve…

  • Bevin Kacon Alpha a Movie Trivia Game

    Bevin Kacon Alpha a Movie Trivia Game

    I’ve been working on this project with my students in Web Devleopment 2 this semester. And it’s time to see if it makes sense or is at all fun and note tons of obvious bugs! “Bevin Kacon” as I’m snarkily calling it, is a movie trivia game based on Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – just find…

  • Modern VHS

    Modern VHS

    Here at camp I’ve finally worked through my Bootstrap tutorials and created a spec site for a much larger project that I’m hoping to work on this summer. As part of my learning to code binge , I’m planning to learn the basics of Python and OpenCV to try and make an image processing application. The…