George Christakis

Photography by George Christakis

George Christakis is a twenty eight year old photographer born in Crete who mixes photography and digital painting. His style can be described as a mix of conceptual, experimental and surreal, with more emphasis on the content and composition. He began by taking pure photographs on the streets, but soon raised his interest in creating his own dreamlike images.

Most of the images were created by digitally manipulating pure photographs. They often depict a sole protagonist – the only person in sight – experiencing intense or emotional situations in strange environments.

“I usually create pictures with some moody, strange environments, and maybe unusual colors. I suffer from color blindness; therefore I can’t really see the true colors. In the past I used to work only with black and white pictures. Now I’m trying the colors as well, hoping that I won’t do something excess.

There are only one or two characters in my images. I want to create a dreamlike picture, a strange world where our protagonist should be alone, without having someone to share the moment. That’s an important factor for me. My personal view is that moments are mostly made to be shared. We share moments with each other every day and create some feelings, mood, etc, together. There are also some daydreaming, or just dream moments, where we are alone without having the ability to share our fantasy picture with others.” – George Christakis

Matthieu Bourel

Matthieu Bourel, “Education / Formatting”, 2016, Animated Version

Matthieu Bourel is a German collage and digital artist whose work veers uneasily from nostalgia to technological dystopia. Bourel combines traditional cut and paste collage techniques with digital editing, digital animation, and even sound design to create a body of work that blurs the distinction between illustration, graphic design and art installation.

Bourel describes his work as “data-ism” and the reference to the original Dada movement of the early twentieth century is more than a play on words. Like his Dadaist precursors, Bourel delights in creating shocking juxtapositions, ironic distance and high-brow/low-brow mash-ups.

Anthony Samaniego

Anthony Samaniego, Computer Graphics, Endless Loop, Film Gifs

Anthony Samaniego is a visual artist practicing in photography, video and 3D animation. His work deals with the subjects of beauty and time. More information can be found at the artist’s site: https://www.anthonysamaniego.com

“Mossy bank and darksome glens”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gustavo Spredemann and Leone Simonetti

Beautiful Natural Abstractions from Protobacillus

Protobacillus is an art project by Gustavo Spredemann and Leone Simonetti, two Brazilian graphic designers/artists. We create abstract animations that take inspiration from nature and digital media. The unique result of this collaboration ranges from organic to psychedelic, or a combination of both.

Reblogged with thanks to http://gamyrex.tumblr.com

Source: http://littlelimpstiff14u2.tumblr.com

The Dissolution of the Evolved Being

Artist Unknown, (The Dissolution of the Evolved Being), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“People use the words “beginning” and “end” to describe the start and end of things. However, “beginning” is really the event of coming together when energy gathers, and “end” is simply the dissolution of that energy. That which came together can easily dissolve if conditions become unfavorable. That which has dissolved may come together again if circumstances are appropriate. Therefore, who is to say that there is a beginning and an end?”
― Liezi

Jim Butcher: “It Defies the Gravity of an Entire Planet”

Artist Unknown, Computer Graphics, Film Gif from “Casablanca”, 1942

“Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is pretty freaking remarkable. You get in a plane it defies the gravity of an entire planet by exploiting a loophole with air pressure and it flies across distances that would take months or years to cross by any means of travel that has been significant for more than a century or three. You hurtle above the earth at enough speed to kill you instantly should you bump into something and you can only breathe because someone built you a really good tin can that seems tight enough to hold in a decent amount of air. Hundreds of millions of man-hours of work and struggle and research blood sweat tears and lives have gone into the history of air travel and it has totally revolutionized the face of our planet and societies.

But get on any flight in the country and I absolutely promise you that you will find someone who in the face of all that incredible achievement will be willing to complain about the drinks.”

-Jim Butcher, Summer Knight