by Henry Kaye on August 15, 2014
Here’s a GIF history lesson.
The rainbow divider was a type of GIF used commonly among early web pages; it was used as an ornamental device to divide up text-heavy web pages. Remember those?
Paul Flannery has set out to “sculpturally repurpose” the now ancient rainbow divider, and he’s doing it in a multitude of ways. Some GIFs in the series end up looking like Art Deco or Japanese room dividers, while others are technicolor optical illusions. Either way, they definitely look better than the originals.
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by Henry Kaye on August 11, 2014
It’s hard to come by a GIF that makes use of that ubiquitous RGB color space white. This is why I like this one by Brandon Jan Blommaert, called AMERICA””’S_MOST_HAUNTED. The blocks in it all fade to that luminous tone. The result looks similar to when the exposure on a camera is too high.
In terms of the title, I can’t say the GIF looks necessarily American. Still, It does end up looking ghostly.
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