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Cinemagraphs: the art of the animated gif

April 21, 2011 § 4 Comments

Remember the early days of the web, before Flash and JavaScript, when the animated gif was the only thing that could move in a webpage (and more often than not to a displeasing effect)? Those days are long gone, and the gif has been de-throned and for good reason: most of them were not only crude, but utterly ugly as well, by definition bordering on the kitsch side. But the gifs you are about to see are a completely different story.

Fashion (and not only) photographer Jamie Beck creates these amazing animated gifs with the help of web designer Kevin Burg.

These gifs walk the fine line between photography and video, belonging to neither. They are studies on a scene. You might even miss the motion completely if you are not careful enough. But, even if minimal, this motion is heavy with emotion and fluent with meaning.

The artistic duo calls their animated gif cinemagraphs and explain: “There’s something magical* about a still photograph — a captured moment in time — that can simultaneously exist outside the fraction of a second the shutter captures.”

You can find all of Jamie’s animated gifs in her tumblr: from me to you. Not only that, but you can also find all of her fashion photography (New York Fashion Week, anyone?), her own styling and street fashion photography (I love her vintage style; it is actually her on the portrait above), her food blogging, her series on NYC and other cities and A LOT more.

*[Speaking of magic, this minimal flickering inside the photograph is exactly how I always imagined the Daily Prophet.]

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Liberty trainers, oh my!

March 31, 2011 § Leave a comment

This is love at first sight. Fabric legend The Liberty of London have collaborated with Nike (again) for this amazing series of Art Nouveau trainers in their classic designs.

Available from April 1 at Liberty’s. You’ve been warned.

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Get inspired

March 18, 2011 § Leave a comment

Do you often feel you lack inspiration? Designinspiration is an online archive of user-submitted images, at your disposal as a means of inspiration. This collection of high quality images covers a wide range of themes, from art and books to film and fashion.

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Etsy finds: geometries

March 13, 2011 § 1 Comment

Geometry is an endless source of inspiration from Ancient Greece, to tribal design to futuristic shapes. You simply cannot go wrong with geometrical shapes.

Geometries etsy treasury list:

Geometric Carpet by EnRoute Studio
Kart Chair by HarBenger2
GEOMETRY SET JOTTER – Set Square by presentandcorrect
Triangle Tank Dress by jessalinb
Geometric Triangle necklace Gold by spoonfullofmint
Triangle Array Pattern PERF Laser Cut T-Shirt by perfapparel
Ascendant Earrings by LauraLombardiJewelery
shapes necklace hexagon by cristinapires
Warehouse IV – double finger ring by melaniefavreau
Chunky Necklace and Earrings, made of copper brown leather triangles by SchickiMickis
Ivory Towers Cuff by jewisaha
Let’s Go – Away For A While by letsgoawayforawhile
Paired Hexagons by locallibrary
METAL GEO – Cuff Bracelet – Stainless Steel by arosha
TWO TRIANGLES ring by marmod8
wavy navy art card by MAKEatx

Straight lines

March 6, 2011 § 2 Comments

Paintings that have a magazine-like glossy look? Why not?

UK based artist Alessandro Botto is a self-taught painter, whose work explores ‘movement through the analysis of balance, velocity and the hierarchy of elements within a composition’.

It’s not fashion, it’s definitively art.