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Kevin J Weir Makes GIFs Out of Archival Photos

Kevin J Weir adds to the ghostly nature of vintage photographs with his humorous and unsettling GIFs. Weir's "The Flux Machine" project uses images from the Library of Congress Flickr account. He posts these photos on both his website and Tumblr account specifically dedicated to this series.

Kevin J Weir adds to the ghostly nature of vintage photographs with his humorous and unsettling GIFs. Weir’s “The Flux Machine” project uses images from the Library of Congress Flickr account. He posts these photos on both his website and Tumblr account specifically dedicated to this series.

When asked by Angeles and Apes about the source of some of his monsters, which do not appear as taken from archival material, the artist said this: “Everything is either built from little bits of other things I find or created from scratch. Some pixels from here, other pixels from there, some videos filmed in my apartment, etc. Every GIF is a mishmash of a hundred different bits.”

See more of his GIFs below.

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Animated GIFs, GIF art, Kevin J Weir

Animated GIFs, Milos Rajkovic, Sholim

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Milos Rajkovic, who creates under the moniker “Sholim” makes surreal animated portraits that enrapture as much as they unsettle. Reason Magazine once said that his GIFs are like "a Max Ernst collage crossed with one of Terry Gilliam's animations from Monty Python's Flying Circus." The Serbian artist remixes the elements on the face of models and figures from pop culture.

Colin Raff’s Unsettling Animations

animation, Colin Raff, GIF art

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Adam Martinakis, Christian Martin Weiss, George Redhawk, GIF art

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Animated GIFs, Min Liu, surrealism

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Kevin J Weir Makes GIFs Out of Archival Photos

Milos Rajkovic’s Surreal, Animated Portraits

Colin Raff’s Unsettling Animations

Blind Artist George Redhawk Creates Eerily Captivating GIFs

Min Liu’s Bloody Diary Features GIFs, Lots of Cats

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