Sunday Surreality

September 5, 2010 12:43 AM

Surreal Web Art: Duncan Alexander's hypnotic Freakin' Cats and Cursor Vortex, Nicholas O'Brien's tranquil GrassWalk, Thorne Brandt's Animated Gif of the Day July 2010, Pixelfucks' Untitled #4, A. Bill Miller's grid-portraits, Michael Manning's epilepsy-inducing information technology is the gateway to the infinite and much more at the 2010 Virtual Art Fair
posted by Blazecock Pileon (6 comments total)

Much goodness here. Can we collect more in comments?
posted by stonepharisee at 2:59 AM on September 5, 2010

Cool post, this was awesome. People be careful - Manning's could trigger a migraine - wow! If my sister watched this she would be toast.
posted by garnetgirl at 4:08 AM on September 5, 2010

Like many an art fair, it has it's good stuff and the "wha?" But overall, it leaves you feeling really hopeful for this new medium -- and hopeful about things in general. (Before virtual art goes any further, however, it has to weed out the flashers. Michael Manning, this means you.)
posted by Faze at 5:25 AM on September 5, 2010

Awesome. Screw the company website, from now on every PC I have to set up is getting Freakin' Cats set as the default homepage.
posted by Elmore at 6:45 AM on September 5, 2010 [1 favorite]

Freakin' Cats is a Magic Eye whose secret image is God.
posted by Beardman at 5:37 PM on September 5, 2010

For IE users who were initially confounded as I was: It doesn't seem like a lot of these work in IE, yet do work in Chrome (presumably FireFox as well).

Pretty cool stuff. It makes me wonder how much this retroweb fad will last (hopefully forever).
posted by codacorolla at 11:43 AM on September 6, 2010