Posts tagged: gif

The Occupied /b/

/b/, F.A.T. style

For the last day of the Occupy the Internet Exhibition, we decided to go out with a bang, and occupy 4chan‘s Notorious B.I.B.—/b/ Image Board. As Evan put it: “exhibiting on 4chan is more exciting than exhibiting at the MoMA.”

The reaction thus far has been positive, ranging from:

“Good old social conditioning, by forcing users too associate the irrational emotion of ‘annoyance’ with a the abstract concepts of the movement, your m00t is nothing but a capitalist candy-ass using tactics devised by Edward Bernays… sorry to say guys… this is worse than FOX”

…to:

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!”

Oh well—we’ll make Fatties out of them eventually.

Thanks Jamie Dubs for the wicked CSS.

Posted by Chris Poole on Nov 04.11 to 4chan, animatedgif, gif, occupy, occupyinternet

Occupy the Internet Exhibition is Open!

The Occupy the Internet Exhibition is now live on 866+ websites until the end of the day Friday (Nov. 4). Pour yourself some Champaign and point your browser to any occupied website.

Participating artists (view all gifs at full resolution here):
Aram Bartholl: (.gif)
Brad Downey: (.gif)
Constant Dullaart: (.gif)
Dragan Espenschied: (.gif)
Mark Jenkins: (.gif)
moot: (.gif)
La Quadrature Du Net: (.gif)
Olia Lialina: (.gif)
Jonah Peretti & Chelsea Peretti: (.gif | .gif)
Ryder Ripps: (.gif)
Rafael Rozendaal: (.gif)
Telecomix: (.gif)
Charlie Todd: (.gif)
UBERMORGEN: (.gif)

Curated by Evan Roth

Coded by Jamie Wilkinson

Code for Occupy the Internet by Greg, Theo, Jamie and Tobi.
Concept development for Occupy the Internet by Theo, Jerry, Jamie, Greg, Evan, Aram, Tobi and Randy.

Update 11/2: we’re excited to welcome a GIF by Chris “moot” Poole to the exhibition.

Posted by Evan Roth on Nov 01.11 to animatedgif, gif, occupy, occupyinternet

Occupy the Internet…. the Exhibition!!!

(Full flyer here)

Over the course of the last week, F.A.T.’s Occupy the Internet script has been installed on over 700 websites, serving up millions of animated gif protestors in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Opening this Tuesday at 9am EST is the Occupy the Internet Exhibition, where we’re temporarily replacing the current virtual protestors with new animated .gifs from a group of leading net artists, internet activists, street artists and comedians. To attend, go to any of these occupied websites.

When:
November 1 to November 4

Where:
On fffff.at and all of the 754 websites (and counting) currently running the Occupy the Internet script.

Participating artists:
Aram Bartholl
Brad Downey
Constant Dullaart
Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
Mark Jenkins
La Quadrature Du Net
Jonah Peretti & Chelsea Peretti
Ryder Ripps
Rafael Rozendaal
Telecomix
Charlie Todd
UBERMORGEN

Curated by Evan Roth

How to Participate:
Install the following code on your website (or any website for which you have access) before 9am EST this Tuesday.

Follow fffff.at (or @fffffat on Twitter) for updates.

Code for Occupy the Internet by Greg, Theo, Jamie and Tobi.
Concept development for Occupy the Internet by Theo, Jerry, Jamie, Greg, Evan, Aram, Tobi and Randy.

Posted by Evan Roth on Oct 28.11 to animatedgif, exhibition, gif, occupy, occupyinternet

Occupy The Internet

Are you a “webmaster”, admin, blog owner or someone with access to index.html files? Are you interested in taking part in the recent global wave of revolution from the comfort of your home computer? Occupy the Internet!

Add the animated GIF army to websites you control (or can get control of) by pasting the following code into any HTML file:

UPDATE (10-20-2011): Occupy Service!
Force-occupy any website with “Occupy The Internet – The Service”.
Just insert a URL and send-out the link! fffff.at/occupy
• Example: Goldmansachs.com occupied!!!

UPDATE (10-19-2011): Occupy Plugin!
Occupy any site with the Occupy The Internet browser plugin ( beta ):
• Safari: download beta plugin here | source code here.
( to install unzip and drag into safari ).
• FireFox: Coming Soon.
• Chrome: Coming Soon.

UPDATE (10-24-2011)
* stats = occupyinter.net/stats — over 5 million GIFs served!
* full list of occupied sites = occupyinter.net/sites

Websites currently being occupied:

***UPDATE***
After overwhelming response this list has become too cumbersome to manually update. All occupied websites should now be automatically added to http://occupyinter.net/sites (and /stats) thanks to Jamie.

To add your occupied website to this list please post a link in the comments, send an email to or tweet us @FFFFFAT

If you would like to contribute animated GIF occupation soldiers please leave URLs in the comment thread of this post where they will be called up for duty. Note: images should have transparent backgrounds.

Source code: github.com/jamiew/occupy-internet-widget

A F.A.T. Lab Production
Concept development by Theo, Jerry, Jamie, Greg, Evan and Aram.
Code development by Jamie and Greg.

Posted by fffffat on Oct 19.11 to animatedgif, gif, gifs, occupy, occupytheinternet, participatory, protest

Unofficial Watch The Throne Video (Jay-Z & Kanye West)

(This video is also mirrored on YouKu.com).

АНИМИРОВАННЫЙ ГИФ MASHUP (Animated Gif Mashup) is the result of spending one afternoon in a loft in St. Petersburg with a group of people listening to rap music and surfing Russian websites for animated gifs. The event was hosted by International Art-Forum St. Petersburg and created using Animated Gif Mashup (source code available here). Documentation of the screening is here (worth it for the vodka chug if nothing else).

Thanks to International Art-Forum St. Petersburg (Grafffest), CEC ArtsLink, the US Consulate in St. Petersburg and all the participants.

Posted by Evan Roth on Aug 22.11 to animatedgif, gif, gifmashup, mashup, russia, stpetersburg

HOW-TO: Animate Your Twitter Avatar

Due to updates on Twitter, this hack is unlikely to work. Thanks for playing!

~~Pimp your Twitter avatar. Make it animated.~~

Updated 23 Feb 2011: Twitter hack now allows for larger animated avatars (128×128 pixel dimensions)!

~~Instructions (Easy):~~

~~Find your imagery (or use 3fram.es to make an animated GIF and save to your computer).~~
~~Upload your animated GIF to be resized:~~
Download the resized image and upload to your Twitter profile!
~~Click ‘Upload to Twitter’ to automatically have your avatar image changed!~~
Twitter has disabled this app from using their API due to a violation of their Terms of Service (without mentioning what specifically was in violation). You will need to download and upload to Twitter manually.

~~Instructions (Advanced):~~

~~Find your imagery (or use 3fram.es to make an animated GIF).~~
~~Import your animated GIF into Photoshop (details), or create your animation from still frames.~~
~~Resize your image to a 48×48 (the secret dimensions!).~~
~~‘Save for Web’ as a GIF, tweak your colors, and save.~~
~~Upload to your Twitter profile!~~

Share your results by posting your Twitter URL in the comments! or browse the latest uploads.

Note: Animated image URLs are validly returned in the Twitter API, however some apps may not animate your GIFs.

Inspired by all the Blah Blah Blah on Twitter. Hacked by @gleuch.
Props to @aarontweets for 3fram.es.

Posted by Greg Leuch on Jan 10.11 to gif, gleuch, hacks, Twitter

Blah Blah Blah

1. Go to 3fram.es
2. BLAH BLAH BLAH
3. Post your URL to get added (or tweet @jamiew)

Update (1/9/11 2:20pm PST):

Update: (1/9/11 5:45pm PST):

Update: (1/9/11 11:45pm PST):

Even more… (1/11/11 2:18pm):

Speed Project Approved

Mike Rugnetta made the GIF that inspired all of this nonsense. Aaron Meyers is the man responsible for 3fram.es. For more fffffat projects like this click here.

Posted by Jamie Dubs on Jan 09.11 to 3frames, collab, gif, participatory, speedproject