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The .Gif Friday Post No. 668 – Deadly Serious

All animations are by “Deadly Serious” artist Kajetan Obarski, aka Kiszkiloski.

Hi. My name is Kajetan Obarski and I create short animations about my true love to the mankind, death, nihilism and totally random stuff. If you want to support me and my work consider becoming my mommy on Patreon and tip me some of your unwanted money.

You can also support me and my work by purchasing tote bags and art prints of half-naked skeletons. Tip me via PayPal. Buy me a coffee or two. Whatever works.

Tote bags and prints: society6
Stickers and stuff: redbubble
Buy me a coffee: ko-fi
PayPall: kiszkiloszki@gmail.com

Thanks!

[.Gif animations found here.]

ArtooDeco

Kurt Zimmerman visits schools with his droids to inspire young minds, and does hospital visits to cheer up young patients. Artoo Deco is capable of movement under radio control, and with an in-built sound-system that makes cool, droidish noises.

[Images and caption found here; h/t Dale W. via Facebook.]

Legible Graffiti

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Mathieu Tremblin lives and works in Rennes and Arles, France, finds graffiti and enhances them for legibility (and sometimes the taggers return).

“As if tagging the city was about freedom, and drawing decorative letters about control, I wanted to find a project to turn “ugly tags” into something “beautiful”, but preserve the subversive part of language distortion.”

I find it interesting that the vandalism in France is indistinguishable from that in the US, and I wonder why.

[More images here. Poorly translated background story here.]

Saturday Matinee – This Is Hormel (1964), The Rave-Ups, Tom Waits, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, and Freddie King

Everything you ever wanted to know about Hormel… up to 1964. [h/t SL]

The Rave-Ups got some traction for their work in the movie Pretty In Pink (1986). Their cover of the Byrds‘ You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere is pretty good, too.

Tom Waits does rockabilly his way, and the intro on his live version is pure awesome.

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood tell the truth (2009).

Any Freddie KIng jam makes me smile, and Boogie Funk (ca. 1968) matches what’s been going on in my brain lately. (I’m not sure that’s the correct song title – it might be Feelin’ Good.)

Have a great weekend, we’ll see what happens tomorrow.