whenthennow:

is making a gif with the photoshop “transparent” background like painting on a palette? like some sort of “releasing a finished product on the surface of tool used while the product is still unfinished” sort of thing?

Haha jesus

Okay here’s how net art works

-  Take an outdated web design trope

-  Take a limitation of graphics rendering technology

-  Put them together, maybe add a sprinkling of warped pop culture signifiers

Just like what every other post tim and eric tumblr teen does, except those kids intend their juxtapositions to be viscerally funny.  and not some ugly rough draft masquerading as cultural anthropology / clinical commentary on web aesthetic

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  2. whenthennow reblogged this from yaphet and added:
    an… haha yeah, no, thats how people like me become “tumblr relevant”. Net Art works by putting out
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  9. tetradugenica-je-srbija reblogged this from yaphet and added:
    now thats a twisted take on the net
  10. yaphet reblogged this from whenthennow and added:
    Haha jesus Okay here’s how net art works - Take an outdated web design trope - Take
  11. tepidsloth said: dunno about other people, but i use it as a way to say “hey, this was going to be transparent but drop shadows/semi-transparent things don’t seem to do well when converting to gif. or what you said.
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