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Topics: Popular Media | Add A CommentBy admin | October 10, 2008

Choosy mothers choose animated GIF’s

The image at left is disturbing enough on its own, but viewed this way (don’t click that link before your morning coffee or after too many drinks), is likely to tangle your optic nerves. The gallery of animated image backgrounds in that link was created by James Koehnline, a Seattle artist whose work grew mostly out of the ‘zine culture and groups like the 1980′s Chicago gallery/meeting space Axe Street Arena. He mostly works with cut-and-paste collage work, but clearly has some talent with digital design. This image in particular creeps me out, but I can’t stop looking at it.