Get ready for a Game Changer!
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Drawn in Photoshop, animated in Spine Pro. The final art piece I made for my bachelor thesis on GIF as a medium for art.
I've been researching digital art in the context of modern folk art, outside institutional or commercial art. I analysed almost 500 art GIFs across Tumblr, Artstation and GIPHY.
There's almost no academic research on art GIFs, so it was important to me to examine and document it. I also examined the optimisation of GIFs and how it relates to web sustainability.
And because the bachelor program was focused on art practice, I then created my own art GIFs, and it seemed only right that I should do it through fanart of something I've been really into lately. Thanks @samreich and the rest of Dropout for giving me some unhinged content as inspiration. Watch 'Game Changer' everyone, it's great.
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Congratulations to the winner: Laura Jane Grace!!
📷 travis shinn
#Round 1
Congratulations to all the winners of round one!
Hayley Williams vs Brendon Urie
Frank Iero vs Otto Wood
Dallon Weekes vs Ryan Seaman
Pete Wentz vs Mikey Way
Tucker Rule vs Geoff Wigington
Ryan Ross vs Andy Hurley
Geoff Rickly vs Billie Joe Armstrong
Zac Farro vs Travie McCoy
#Round 2
Congratulations to all the winners of round two!
Taylor York vs Anthony Green
Travis Stever vs Joe Trohman
Patrick Stump vs Mike Dirnt
Gabe Saporta vs Awsten Knight
Bill Beckett vs Adam Siska
Tre Cool vs Gerard Way
Jon Walker vs Ray Toro
Bert McCracken vs Laura Jane Grace
#Round 3
Congratulations to all the winners of round three!
Hayley Williams vs Frank Iero
Dallon Weekes vs Pete Wentz
Tucker Rule vs Ryan Ross
Billie Joe Armstrong vs Travie McCoy
#Round 4
Congratulations to all the winners of round four!
AND a very special congratulations to Fall Out Boy for having their vocalist, guitarist, and bassist all make it to the quarterfinals!
Taylor York vs Joe Trohman
Patrick Stump vs Awsten Knight
Bill Beckett vs Gerard Way
Ray Toro vs Laura Jane Grace
#Round 5 (Quarterfinals)
Congratulations to all the winners of round five!
Hayley Williams vs Pete Wentz
Ryan Ross vs Travie McCoy
Joe Trohman vs Patrick Stump
Gerard Way vs Laura Jane Grace
#Round 6 (Semifinals)
Congratulations to all the winners of round six!
Hayley Williams vs Travie McCoy
Joe Trohman vs Laura Jane Grace
#Round 7 (Finals)
Hayley Williams vs Laura Jane Grace
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if you struggle with mental health, one piece of advice i would genuinely give you is learn to knit.
or crochet: something repetitive to do with your hands, assuming you're capable of it. if you're like me and learnt to knit as a kid but let it lie fallow for a long time, it may be that starting a large, simple project (for me it was a cloak, but a blanket could work too) gets you back into it. or maybe doing something smaller, idk. i personally found socks really hard for a while because they felt smaller than my cloak but weren't getting Done quick enough for me. as i've sped up i find it more interesting to knit socks.
regardless, a repetitive task is great for emotional regulation (also see: autistic stimming), and something that you can look at and go hey i've done something, unlike simply using a fidget toy, can also help to pick your mood up when the brain is being cruel.
it's also useful as a conversation starter or distracter if you don't know what to talk about. if you're wanting to talk to older people also you're more likely to reel them in with knitting (i work better with older people, and 99% of people who ask what i'm knitting are older than me). it also gives you the opportunity to not make eye contact because you're busy knitting, even if you're still carrying on a conversation. if you're absolutely stuck for conversation you can count your stitches and people might stop bothering you.
if you have trouble focusing without doing something with your hands, you can knit! i knit a lot in church, and it helps me to focus on what's being said.
i probably have more reasons you should pick up knitting, but i can't recall them right now, so yeah.
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