It is amazing what power a name can have. On one hand, it is just an assortment of sounds and syllables, but then it is a cornerstone of our individual identities.
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Christmas of the future… in 2017
I had originally intended to post this GIF over the Xmas holidays, but sort of forgot to *sheepish grin*, but I thought just post it now. It’s a festive GIF with a difference. I deliberately steered clear of actual Christmassy imagery and opted for a 1990s-meets-vaporwave look. A revolving mottled gem, draped in aethereal camouflage spins in a void of shimmering purples and azure. A masterpiece, I think personally.
Credits: Vijay Shah and Blingee
You’re my kind of perfect
A retro Eighties/vaporwave influenced GIF I cooked up late last year, complete with an old school TV set and a neat glitch effect. VHS Cassettes at the ready!
Credits: Vijay Shah and Blingee
New Year’s Day 2018 – 2
A GIF I made from a cool website that allows you to enter your name into a premade greetings web page, where it is magically transformed into colour-shifting 3D letters. A little New Year’s gift GIF from me to you, dear reader.
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Gifville mentioned on Reddit
This actually happened last year, but now I got round to mentioning it. One of our GIFs/tags got a namecheck of sorts on community website Reddit. In the post titled “Cloud factory switches to balloon production” on the Gifs Reddit, a user linked to Gifville in discussing the image, which depicted blue balloons rising out of a chimney stack. I originally featured the GIF, by Val, on Where there is smoke…there is…balloons? (October 2015).
You can see the Reddit post, with quite a few chirpy little comments here!
Credits: Vijay Shah and Blingee
Running after that elusive prize
On one hand, it’s a cat chasing after a dancing cartoon milk carton, on the other hand, this GIF symbolises us chasing after what keeps us alive, sustained and which fuels our thirst. We spend all our lives perpetually pursing things, dreams, ambitions. An artwork by myself.
Credits: Vijay Shah via Blingee
Baby’s feeding time
Look at this cute baby, with her ‘first Hallowe’en’ bib. She can certainly open up for the airplane!
Credits: Vijay Shah, Jackie Lehto, Fatma Ozsezer, GIFS to share. GIFS à partager. and Facebook
iPhoneWave
This piece is based on a stock photo of someone’s hand holding an iPhone. I added effects via Blingee, then post-processed via the ScreenToGif software program. This piece combines aspects of the vaporwave art movement with normal advertising layout standards. Some could view this as a subtle critique on consumerism, but I’ll leave you to create your own impression.
Credits: Vijay Shah, Blingee
Facebook dominoes
Remember the Facebook video GIF I stuck up on here previously. Here’s another extract I made from it, featuring yours truly surrounded by dominoes imprinted with the display pictures of my friends on that site.
Credits: Vijay Shah and Facebook
Another social media trip around the sun
A GIF I adapted from a special Facebook end-of-year video, personalised for my account there.
Credits: Vijay Shah and Facebook
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