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Reuben Sutherland’s Kaleidoscopic Doodles

Reuben Sutherland is from New Zealand and is job is ‘mostly making arty graphic stuff’.  He makes his gifs as part of the Audiovisual duo Sculpture for live performances.  He views his gifs as ‘doodles’ just to show zoetropes and how they animate.  Despite his downplaying of these gifs as ‘doodles’ they are inventive, beautiful and mesmerizing.  I may even call these Art.

Das Gedankenspiel, sich seine Welt so bunt wie möglich zu gestalten, ist dem einen oder anderen möglicherweise bekannt.

[ID: Tapey and Box from Inanimate Insanity, humanized. They're sitting side by side in the grass, talking. Tapey is flustered, tugging at her scarf and looking away. Box is looking over at her with a sweet smile, her hand almost brushing over Tapey's. end ID]

It’s been a minute since Sculpture inaugurated their Tapebox label with a reminder of how cool (ooh, pretty colors!) picture discs can look, and now the London-based “opto-musical agglomerate” are at it again with something new on which we can frothily feast our eyes and ears. Their inaugural picture disc was followed by a couple of additional releases on Tapebox, and Sculpture also had a stint…