Gifs That Make You Go Hmmm

Motion graphics designer and aspiring games developer Mr Div creates radical gifs. I could spend (have spent) way too long just sitting, and watching. Using a combination of After Effects and Cinema 4D his gifs have an other-worldly quality to them. Far flung universes, deep dreams, Midnight Juggernauts and Barbarella come to mind. Sit back, hit play (audio AND visual, I'm getting fancy) and get lost in the beautiful repetition of a Mr Div gif. Hmmm.

 

Find Mr Div here, here and here.

Flipping Her Lid

What do you get when you combine 30,000 bottle lids and a Russian woman? An incredible fusion of resourcefulness and creativity, that's what.

In the isolated village of Kamarchaga, located in the Siberian Taiga, Olga Costina has found a very novel way to reuse her lids. Nailing each lid individually onto the walls of her home, she has created motifs of the local flora and fauna, creating something of a local landmark.

She must drink a lot of lemonade.

via designboom

Woolly Abandon

Feeling wild? Reckless? Want to break the law?? Well then, whip out those knitting needles and throw caution to the wind, live on the edge, cover something very public in your very best, brightest knitting. 

Warm up a bus shelter, give the rubbish bin a cosy jumper, show everyone that tree trunks look great in cable knits too. Yarnstorm your neighbourhood. 

Guerrilla knitting, graffiti knitting, urban knitting or yarn bombing. Call it what you will, the movement first garnered international attention in 2007 when the Jafagirls knit up some trees in Yellow Springs, Ohio and called it The Knit Knot Tree. Illegal knitting in a place called Yellow Springs? It doesn't get more badass than that.

Meanwhile, over in London, graffitti knitting collective Knit The City operate out of a woolly-lined bunker. It's members, all with terrifying assumed names (Deadly Knitshade, Shorn-a the Dead, Knitting Ninja) are constantly conspiring new ways to "enhance public places or objects with graffiti knitting". So far they have spruced up a phone box in Parliament Square, spun a spidery web of yarn in Waterloo and thrown a huge knitted squid into the lap of the Charles Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum.

Closer to home we have the Twilight Taggers, knitting havoc across Melbourne. Telegraph poles, library books, bike handlebars and parking meters are no longer safe with these knitwits loose on the streets. Lock up your fixies and children, they might be next. 

The Knit Knot Tree by the Jafagirls
Yellow Springs, Ohio

Phone Box Cosy by Knit The City
Parliament Square, London

Web of Woe by Knit The City
Waterloo, London 

Web of Woe detail by Knit The City
Waterloo, London

Plarchie, the Giant Stitched Squid
(Squidius Knittius Plasticus Giganticus)
by Knit The City
Natural History Museum, London

Mixed Up Pole by Twilight Taggers
Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Book Covers by Twilight Taggers
City Library, Melbourne

Bike Handle Bar Cosy by Twilight Taggers
Federation Square, Melbourne