Up above is a personalised GIF from a website where you can email or message cool greetings to your lovely people. Yesterday was the Republic Day holiday in India, which celebrates its commencement as a republic back in 1950. Yesterday was also my brother Arjun’s 16th birthday.
Credits: look-this.co, Vijay Shah
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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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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As much as it sounds cool to believe, no I haven’t suddenly jumped from being a blogger to becoming a Tamil film superstar. But this GIF shot of the opening credits of a ‘mass’ blockbuster are in honour of Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, who is considered one of the ‘gods’ of South Indian cinema, so at least I have a little claim to fame by name association!
Credits: Fasith Muhammed Profile and Blogger
Recently I visited the website PicGifs.com, which offers a wide selection of pre-Tumblr animated GIFs for free use. They have this cool glitter text generator where you can transform a word into a GIF from a choice of fancy ABCs. I put my name through the GTG and these guys came out.
Credits: Picgifs.com and Vijay Shah
The last of the 3 (Three) mobile internet wallpaper GIFs I made with my name back in 2007. This one is the liveliest of the lot, with a racing car shooting past while ‘VIJAY’ goes scarpering in the opposite direction!
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The third GIF in the Gifville classics collection from the mobile phone supplier 3 (Three). A cannabis leaf spins on its stalk, in a manner reminiscent of the simple GIFs that dominated the Internet in the 1990s. I was probably in my Ali G phase at that time. My name is also superimposed over the spinning leaf.
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The second deposition in my classic GIFs collection. It is another wallpaper preview from way back in 2007 from a former mobile phone provider. This little thing has a Matrix feel to it, or like those super-bright disco lights you get at raves. My first name is reproduced in LED-like typeface.
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Introducing a new series of articles on ‘classic’ GIFs I collected from 2007-2011 and saved onto a CD. Today’s Classic GIFs article was created, if I remember correctly, using a wallpaper design service for mobiles owned by 3 (Three), who were my carrier back in 2007. The GIF features my name growing closer in front of colourful concentric circles. It was meant as a free preview of the original paid wallpaper, which I never bought. I still pocketted the GIF though.
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