Cinemagraphs are a relatively new and arty form of animated media where only a portion of the image is actually animated. Know Your Meme traces the origin back to a February 2011 post on the From Me to You Tumblr blog. As you can tell from perusing the Tumblr tag they've become pretty popular for fashion or simple artistic expression, and while there's no denying they're cool and often beautiful, most examples -- that aren't a taxi in the window or a cat filing its nails -- fail to resonate with me.
Bottom line: MOAR pop culture cinemagraphs please. I'm simply mesmerized by this Jack Rabbit Slim's cinemagraph by David Centeno, and I can only imagine how much potential the rest of Pulp Fiction, or Fight Club, or really any film with a cult following has. I'm sure cinemagraphs are painstakingly difficult to make, and this tutorial seems to emphasize that, so just know that when you're making them, I really appreciate it.
Here's every mesmerizing, beautiful, wonderful, and creepy pop culture cinemagraph I could find to help spread the cinemagraph gospel. Fingers crossed there's a part two to this in the near future.
Sources: Tumblr, Web Design Shock, CoolGizmoToys
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this is the best thing ever, Jack Nick is awesome
@MB: Glad you like. A medium that manages to make Tilda Swinton even creepier is pretty incredible.
The Strangelove one is terrific.
#11 definitely!
This site is the tits for these things. Many of them are from foreign movies and some are a little long(10-12 sec). There might even be some with nudity if I remember correctly. [iwdrm.tumblr.com]
Same site – even better Shining one.
[iwdrm.tumblr.com]
I think that site is over a year old, too.
IWDRM was first. Google it!
Blow out the damn match!
+1 for shaky Pinkman and chewing Turgidson
@AX & Ned: Thanks for the head’s up. Never came across IWDRM when searching around. Looks like part 2 is going to be a go.
#14 – that’s not from ‘House Bunny’ is it? Also, I had to go back to the Tilda Swinton one. (“there’s MORE”?)
That Tilda Swinton one is freaky.
#14 rollover text says it’s from Mean Girls. And now that I see that, I do remember that scene with fine, fine Rachel McAdams ass.