It’s hard to say why I like this 2011 GIF by Chris Shier (who made the cubes and found the dashboard), Juan Amaya (who layered them), and Tom Moody (who GIFed them). It reminds me of the terrifying Internet nightmare/driving sequence in the first thirty seconds of Ryan Trecartin’s I-BE AREA. I don’t think that’s the level of critical analysis Moody might want from GIF of the Day, but for GIFs that made to be distracting, disorienting, and seamless, then this one does the job.
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The cubes inhabit an ambiguous space on either side of the windshield. One yellow slab briefly appears as a near-octagonal shape that could be an approaching road sign, but mostly the action hovers over the dash, right in the driver’s field of view. High speed driving and hallucinating do not mix — time to pull over. Also, there is a mashup of two very different types of 3D environments: the driving test and the tetris-style abstraction. The forced marriage via GIF makes me look at each more closely. This level of critical analysis didn’t come until just now, three years after I posted it (and demanded upping the critical stakes for GIFs).
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