Left to my own devices, I’d probably always seek out the most ornate complicated GIFs I could find. It’s my taste. But after having spent most of the day writing up a soul crushing shopping guide for the rich, (I may never be rid of my anti-corporate teenage angst) Tom Moody’s modest set of GIFs serves as a well-needed palette cleanser. The mini-band above has all of zero relationship to art market, and can be evaluated for what they are; short animated loops of squirrels playing music. One plays an electric guitar, the other a banjo, with what appears to be the back of a player piano and a sheet holder in between the two. Banjo squirrel not withstanding, the movement of each GIF has been sped up or exaggerated in some, creating a bizarre caricature of the action. It’s cute, and perhaps a little naive, in exactly the right way.
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Thanks for the post. I call this assortment “ensemble” and was thinking about what the music would sound like, if it could exist. I didn’t know what those mechanical devices actually were, but imagined them providing some kind of “industrial” percussive accompaniment to the squirrels’ rockabilly rendition of “Duelin’ Banjos” (the hit song from the ’70s Appalachian horror movie Deliverance).
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