Mike’s collection.
These are interesting to think of as a different kind of avatar model. If you look at avatars dredged up by something like the LiveJournal icon-scraper they’re all rectangular. As an artist, working with the circular format makes you think about different content issues–what kind of subject matter lends itself best to this form? (Cameos for portraits, views through viewfinders and portholes, etc.)
Down side: they require more steps to make than rectangles. Also, not every viewing situation respects the GIF’s command to transparencize the area outside the circle–if that doesn’t happen, the effect is blown.
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And more: how do you kick people’s asses and get all their pogs with the digital version?
— tom moody 11/21/06 5:31 pm
pogs doing marquee battle:
- guthrie — 11/28/06 @ 12:54 pm
Excellent. I added it to this practical discussion.
- tom moody — 11/28/06 @ 2:29 pm
[...] Since the project’s inception, there have been hundreds of submissions by artists, many of them hypnotic, and very desirable. Nobody, to my knowledge, has figured out a way to trade them though, which I think would ultimately make them a little more viral. (Some discussion already occurred on the top of competition which resulted in artist Guthrie Lonergan’s pog marquee battle.) Really, I just want a way to feature a daily pog in my sidebar. Personism Screengrab AFC [...]
- Art Fag City » The Best of the Web 2006 — 2/5/07 @ 6:31 am
This is particularly interesting to me as I work in marketing and stes that require registration and user-accounts are doing very well with “badges” which are earned for site participation.
- keith — 2/8/07 @ 12:33 pm
Uhhh, well on a semi-related (pogish) note, here is a funny article about the history of pogs:
http://www.voont.com/pogs
I wouldn’t consider this spam, but I suppose someone might. I’ll take my chances for the good of pogs everywhere!
- Jumi — 10/19/08 @ 1:15 am
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