GIF ME MORE

jani II

2011-06-26T18:01:00.000+03:00

the jani solstice celebration is full of fertility symbols and rituals. therefore spinning this wheel certainly also will gif you much more strength than any chemical sexual enhancers! sorry if you missed it...

jani

2011-06-25T15:09:00.000+03:00

every year, 2 days after summer solstice, latvians go out into the green to celebrate summer solstice by singing, dancing, drinking beer and most importantly... decorating their heads!

līgo, līgo!

2011-06-23T13:53:00.000+03:00

time to celebrate the summer solstice! some more typical gifs are to follow after the pagan party...

gif me more money

2011-06-22T23:16:00.000+03:00

met frej larsson and made a freestyle gif (accidentally)

he makes amazing music in different groups, check them here:
- slagsmålsklubben - sponsored by destiny
- far och son - panik
- maskinen - segertåget
very good music to listen together with gifs...

medusozoa

2011-06-21T21:47:00.000+03:00

hmm, i do love jelly and fish, but the combination i always found somewhat appalling until i encountered these at crack! festival in Rome...

just a little rain in riga

2011-06-21T12:18:00.000+03:00

and now the sun shines again.

12 m

2011-06-20T22:45:00.000+03:00

really just 12 m!

by the way, can you manage to count the arrows within the arrow?

birds

2011-06-20T18:44:00.000+03:00

a while ago i met these birds on vienna streets

palenie zabija

2011-06-20T18:38:00.000+03:00

smoking is even more fun now. on the one hand there is this groundbreaking new package design, and then there is also a new dance, which you can learn here.

something private

2011-03-15T14:59:00.000+02:00

while some people seem to love exposing themselves on twitter telling about their caffee lattes and the following bowel movements i thought i should also blog something private. therefore i gif you insight in my lunch of today:

by the way, the black stuff on the bread is natural latvian hemp spread, very tasty and healthy.

snowball fight continues

2010-12-05T19:09:00.000+02:00

oh no, i guess i was a bit lazy to just throw the ball back at lü.q., so he immediately took revenge, snowed me in, and now I am supposed to throw snowballs at three other comics artists... ok, let's start slowly... the first snow ball I throw at maggot girl chris castañeda. not sure if they have snow in mexico now, but i can throw her a lot from latvia, she just shouldn't eat it all up!

snowball fight

2010-12-05T10:54:00.000+02:00

i was happily observing how wittek challenged könig lü.q. to a snowball fight and then i was startled when lü.q. all of the sudden started to throw snow against me. now i took all my endless gif power and fight back.

hockey

2010-12-02T13:09:00.000+02:00

this part of the match was certainly the easiest to follow, quite relieving for the stressed eyes which previously had to follow the nervous black little spot flying and sliding around all over the place.

sushi

2010-11-30T16:32:00.000+02:00

new shelf

2010-11-29T19:00:00.000+02:00

new shelf + new pictures = new gif

tilt shift?

2010-11-28T17:32:00.000+02:00

more very old pictures newly animated. it is time to make new pics.

milk

2010-11-27T13:01:00.000+02:00

found some old pictures on my camera and decided to make a new gif. might make some more, but first need to drink some coffee.

12 pairs of gloves and pants who want to walk away

2010-03-30T18:20:00.000+03:00

twins

2010-03-29T11:44:00.000+03:00

as seen at the valmiera art school

escape

2010-03-21T14:46:00.000+02:00

in case of earthquakes also super heroes need to now the fastest way out...

hot stuff

2010-03-20T19:37:00.000+02:00

this happens if you poor too hot water in your plastic cup.

moustache

2009-12-26T13:21:00.000+02:00

after me also my cookies grew a moustache...

souvenir from st. petersburg

2009-10-09T20:16:00.000+03:00

found these very tasty cookies in a small convenience store

lenin at VDNKh in moscow

2009-10-07T13:39:00.001+03:00

art moscow II

2009-10-07T13:28:00.000+03:00

well actually there was one other piece at the art fair which i liked. first i thought it is just another room under terrible condition, but the i saw that a finnish artist was responsible for it. well i still suspect it is a ready-made and he just put his name under it.

art moscow

2009-10-07T13:23:00.000+03:00

about 2 weeks ago i visited art moscow. most fascinating to me where these stylish shopping trolleys. to my disappointment i found out they are not part of the show and not for sale, what a pity, another art fair i got home empty handed.

tomatoes

2009-09-21T15:59:00.000+03:00

ruedi who wants to become a latvian found the ultimate never-ending tomatoe tree. i would also like to have one of those in my garden.

САША ОДЕКОЛОН

2009-08-31T16:23:00.000+03:00

shopping in maxima still manages to excite me. especially today as i found this little treasure - "САША ОДЕКОЛОН". not that i really was searching for an eau de cologne, i guess i just couldn't resist the charm of sasha and also would have taken him home if he would have been full of ШНАПС...

weekend activity III

2009-08-29T12:36:00.000+03:00

it might just as well be the last opportunity this weekend to grill shashlik.

house on fire

2009-08-27T11:47:00.000+03:00

last week my copy shop in agenskalns was burning. somehow i managed to take a picture without depicting neither the shop nor the fire. i probably should have read these instructions first...

i don't gif up yet...

2009-08-25T10:56:00.000+03:00

...but photobucket is gifing me some problems. old gifs are not shown for a while because photobucket is tired. so let it rest and come back later

how to become superstitious

2009-08-23T13:46:00.000+03:00

ruedi wants to become superstitious. actually he already is, as he never shook my hand standing in the doorway or also believing he can only become latvian by saying "davai" and wearing a blue hat. but there are also other superstitions which he thought would be easier to remember thanks to the repetition gifs provide. so we created some together...

now especially in times of crisis i also must remember always to keep a little bit of money in my wallet, because otherwise the devil comes and takes a crap in it:

then if you kept at least on cent or santim it also comes handy once someone presents you a sharp object, because then you have to give a little bit money not to get into conflict:

well and the next one seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. it says if you put on your clothes inside out, you soon will get drunk. cheers:

the rest of the gifs we created you can see on ruedi's blog post

weekend activity II

2009-08-22T12:23:00.000+03:00

right click - safe image - open image - zoom until full screen - watch -
once you watched it long enough: try to turn your screen, so that the arrow always shows in the same direction.

introducing rūdi

2009-08-19T11:57:00.000+03:00

ruedi, among some latvians already called rūdplesis, is a swiss guy with the crazy wish to become latvian. check out his blog and see how far he already got. here you can see him enjoying a rest on a swing couch, or however these things are called.

mushrooming

2009-08-15T20:11:00.000+03:00

cleaning and cutting mushrooms looks easy, but it was quite exhausting never-ending work, especially after running one hour through a forest trying to keep up with the mushroom specialists ansis and janis, picking up mushrooms, not picking up poisonous mushrooms and not to get lost in the same time.

weekend activity

2009-08-14T23:37:00.000+03:00

right click - safe image - open image - zoom until full screen - watch

lost outside the city

2009-08-13T12:41:00.000+03:00

at the dubulti train station people just disapear. but somewhow they always come back. in my opinion it is the most beautiful train station far and wide. the only one that can keep up might be this in lviv. in which train station you would like to get lost?

urban exploration

2009-08-10T14:18:00.000+03:00

i don't know if this is good or bad, but latvia surely is a great place for urban explorations. just 50 km outside of riga in middle of the kemeri national park you can find the beautiful ugly sanatorija "Līva". building up this monster allegedly took 10 years and it opened its doors in 1988, containing guest rooms for up to 600 people and all kinds of fancy shmancy spa installments. Already in 1993 it closed and now it is completely plundered and vandalized. Currently it is said that the buildings belong to an arabian company with seat in italy, who have plans to build apartments in one building and in the other a three star hotel. good luck!

panorama from the top floor:

panorama from the first floor:

rigashadow.net.tc is a nice page where you can find more pictures of places worthy for urban exploration. i sure hope there won't be shadowy pictures of the "castle of light" very soon.

rigas streets

2009-08-05T18:46:00.000+03:00

on riga's streets you can find quite a lot of so called "street art". but soon you can recognize it is all made by the same 4 or 5 people, they are just very active. in my closest neighborhood you can find at least two dozen pics of kiwie as they are all very similar they are ideal to gif:

before the rain came

2009-07-20T12:41:00.000+03:00

came the storm

had twins for breakfast

2009-07-18T14:54:00.000+03:00

today for the first time i saw an egg with two yolks. here you can see them swim around their older brother before they got mashed up. delicious!

a bucket full of rain

2009-07-17T14:26:00.000+03:00

yesterday it rained a bit. good that i can swim.

more castles

2009-07-02T10:54:00.000+03:00

also this castle i found on my experimental traveling. it might not be as impressive as neuschwanstein, but it is also not so far away. on the other hand this one is more difficult to enter, as there is a vicious dog guarding the place (like every other house in the neighborhood).

catboarding

2009-06-30T16:41:00.000+03:00

catboarding is like skateboarding just much more fun. just replace the skateboard with a cat. watch me trying to make my first kick flip:

if you are well advanced in catboarding, than you can switch over to humanboarding, but don't attempt waterboarding, that could be bad for your health!

experimental traveling

2009-06-27T10:59:00.000+03:00

experimental traveling is fun and there are lots of different ways how to do it (more you can find out here). i was just walking out of my flat and turned on the streets, i never turned before and i was quite surprised to find this castle and other sights in my immediate neighbourhood, which i never saw before.

ding dong

2009-06-19T18:18:00.000+03:00

yesterday i was walking through a fancy neighborhood in tornkalns. there are lots of villas hidden behind big fences, but not only the fences and the barking dogs behind them make you feel it is a highly exclusive rayon - the mere fact that even doorbells have their own little houses made me gasp.

if you liked this gif, you will like even much more David Shrigley's doorbell animation. go visit it and watch it in full screen!

soft drink recipe

2009-06-15T02:16:00.000+03:00

in my notes i found this great recipe my old flatmate once told me for a tasty soft drink. i would like to share it with you!

so here it goes:

cucumber dream (for 4 servings)

difficulty level: 3

preparation time: 2 min

ingredients:
4 slices of cucumber
4 glasses of water

method:
1. fill 4 glasses with water
2. take a cucumber and wash it (not in the water glasses!)
5. quickly dry the cucumber
6. slice off 4 thin slices slices
7. put the slices carefully in the glasses (one each)
8. stirr it.
9. do not mix it with alcohol

now you can enjoy your drink! if you want to start with some easier recipes, you might want to try first one of grandma's soft drink recipes. but once you get a hand of it, you should really also try out the cucumber drink, it really is worth the effort!

squarepants

2009-06-10T22:51:00.000+03:00

while riga is full of monuments of dead poets, when i was in berlin i came across a monument of a real legend. there were always two people posing in front of it, so i couldn't get spongeboob for myself, but instead i got a new gif...

spring cleaning

2009-05-31T14:44:00.000+03:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Spring cleaning is the period in spring time set aside for cleaning a house, normally applied in climates with a cold winter.

from gifmemore, the free gifer:

my neighbour must have had bad a very cold winter:

development help

2009-05-28T23:56:00.000+03:00

my flatmate works as a volunteer for the latvian red cross. they got a huge package from denmark containing cute bags of pig crackers. as they didn't know what to do with them, the volunteers where asked to distribute them to their friends. i of course was very happy about this unexpected present, but when listening to the radio i got a bit suspicious why the danes didn't want to eat the delicacies themselves, can you guess why?

shashlik

2009-05-22T19:51:00.000+03:00

the shashlik season is open, that's nice, just a pity that also the moskito season started, but let's for once concentrate on the good news, enjoy:

overfishing

2009-05-17T15:37:00.000+03:00

"Overfishing occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans." source wikipedia; picture: 12 fisherman and a baby buggy behind the monument of victory, riga, 15th of may; comments: none.

against the stream

2009-05-14T15:59:00.000+03:00

yesterday when i was in pardaugava sitting at the daugava i noticed that the water is flowing in the wrong direction. the best explanation for it is probably the log wetting device which is situated upstream and uses up much water. even if it doesn't make sense, at least like this it is easier to swim against the stream.

wet logs

2009-05-13T22:22:00.000+03:00

ha, with this title i should get a lot of clicks on my page! sorry to disappoint the ones who searched for something else, but i really show wet logs and nothing else. why they are wettened i don't know, but i guess they are being prepared for their journey on the river, like this they can already get used to water.

show me your washline and i'll tell you who you are

2009-05-12T22:36:00.000+03:00

agenskalns is full of beautiful clotheslines and this one here is particularly interesting. instead of skimpy underwear it features a dish towel, a plastic bag, a shower cap, a hand towel and another plastic bag. what does this say to us about the washing habits of the owner? i don't know, i only wonder if it is ecologically wise to wash plastic bags? i guess one has to be particularly careful not to wash the new plastic bags from maxxxima, because they degrade much faster, and who knows what could happen...

victory day

2009-05-09T18:22:00.000+03:00

on the 9th of may i gif you 9 gifs of maybe the most colorful and controversial celebration of the year.

change!

2009-05-05T15:28:00.000+03:00

always when i leave latvia for a while, when i come back i am looking what has changed. even when leaving for only a couple of days, you can be astonished about what’s new. this time there’s no new government, no friends had gone west, no casino has opened in the neighborhood, the bread prices are still the same and even no cat has died. the most striking change this time is the fantastic new milk package. it has far the best design with it’s minimalist approach. it just says piens (latvian for milk) on it. because there is no cow smiling on it they decided to also write moloko on it so that also the russian minority will understand what it is. hope other products will follow this nice example.

dream jobs

2009-05-01T14:54:00.002+03:00

if i would have had this fantastically strange toy in my childhood, then for sure maybe i would have wanted to become a policeman when i grow up.

attention please

2009-04-30T20:41:00.003+03:00

in late march i walked along lake lucerne when the following sight struck me. two little boys fishing with their mother. nothing wrong about that. i just remember when i was fishing for the first time with my father some 20 years ago, but he told me and my brother to always keep quiet not to scare the fish away. maybe nowadays fish also have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and don't care about being quiet anymore. on the other hand they didn't catch one single fish while i made this gif...

hang loose

2009-04-30T20:36:00.002+03:00

the last few weeks i was just hanging around like these clothespins. well i wish i would have. whatever, now i finally find some time to update this blog with old gifs and some new ones.

king of the hill

2009-04-17T01:49:00.003+03:00

mike shiva is probably one of the best entertainers from switzerland. he is hosting a late night show where you can call him and ask about your future, wheter you have the right boyfriend, who will win the football championsship or why your pets are puking on your favourite carpet, everything he can tell you after a blink into his cards!

these gifs i especially dedicate to ruedi sch orno who is a not only a great illustrator but also the biggest fan of mike shiva i know. go take a look at his page! but if you are more interested in mike shiva then better click here.

run run run!

2009-04-16T22:33:00.002+03:00

the next gif documents me walking up a hill in switzerland last week. yes walking up. thanks to the gif my legs seem to have more power and just keep on running, almost flying. i just realize how much i love animated gifs. but not only them, also latvia. it is so nice here - everything is so flat. latvian language doesn't even make a difference between mountains and hills, every elevation that is higher than your nose is called "kalns". no need to say, that kalns is translated into mountain and not hill.

automatic cash

2009-04-13T15:35:00.002+03:00

so far my last italian gif. unfortunately i didn't go left and check out the automatic cash. in times of the global financial crisis hype it could be nice to get some of that, but just like me, most of the people seemed to be ignoring the arrow.

shaky times

2009-04-12T19:57:00.002+03:00

even though the earthquake in italy was only about two weeks after my visit, there were shaky times in siena with it's communist party.

more and more

2009-04-12T19:42:00.003+03:00

more nice colors and more gifs from me from italy. this one i made in a bar in a shopping centre. lots of bars had such nice colors such as this one!

i am back

2009-04-11T12:47:00.003+03:00

but i haven't been in pisa to contine my study, instead i visited an underwear market in siena. guess what is the color of the season?

taking a break

2009-03-20T20:00:00.003+02:00

finally i am having a break from my computer for some two weeks, so there won't be any gifs for a while. But don't worry, I am taking pictures and after I access the world wide web again i will gif you even more. let's dance (not my gif, but my feet):

grumpy

2009-03-16T10:32:00.003+02:00

this gif i made quite a while ago and never found an appropriate text for it. also this time not, so i just let you enjoy it without further comments.

newest pisa study

2009-03-10T20:54:00.002+02:00

next week i go to pisa, and what do people do in pisa? yes - they take very funny pictures of the pisa tower. so i made a study on basis of the 500 first pisa tower pictures on flickr and present here the top ten ways people picture the tower in pisa:

1. just picture the tower
2. stand in front of tower and smile
3. try to prevent tower from falling
4. picture other tourists preventing tower from falling
5. pushing the tower
6. jump in front of tower (don’t ask me why)
7. pushing with a finger
8. kiss in front of tower
9. lean like tower
10. kicking the tower

these were the top ten, but there were many different ways of taking pictures like: holding tower with feet, lean with elbow against tower, hugging it, using tower as hat, taking tower between fingers, letting a teddy-bear holding it, pretend tower is penis, holding a fake pisa tower, holding wrong tower, holding a picture of the tower in front of tower and the most original guy was holding the tower from the wrong side. instead of finding out how i should pose in front it, i found a use of my study for psychologists. if i was a shrink instead of letting my patients paint trees and looking at rorschach pictures, i would send them to pisa to make a picture. ha, that would be so much fun.if you have different ideas how to use my study or suggestions how i should pose in pisa, just post a comment.

apple trees by night

2009-03-10T11:47:00.001+02:00

o tannenbaum

2009-03-08T12:30:00.002+02:00

my neighbour is drying his clothes in the garden. nice sight. just the christmas tree is a bit disturbing, let's hope it doesn't attack anybody.

excitement

2009-03-07T14:34:00.002+02:00

maybe there was a beetle hiding behind the wood. i don't know, i just know this cat was pretty excited.

snow is melting

2009-03-05T20:37:00.006+02:00

the snow in riga is slowly melting. in japan it doesn't seem to melt fast enough, so some mastermind invented an impressive snow-melting machine which is demonstrated on youtube. kyoto forever!

pastime of humorless people

2009-03-04T18:49:00.007+02:00

this gif shows you the process of making my album cover. if you want to see the finished non-moving cover you can press here, if you want to make your own (which is much more fun) then check out the lamelos blog here.

snackek

2009-03-03T12:13:00.003+02:00

i was just preparing myself a snack and then all of the sudden it is staring at me and i realized i just created an edible copy of the work of boris hoppek. please forgif me!

i degrade much faster!

2009-02-28T17:39:00.003+02:00

this says the bag (not me). the person owning it therefore probably was afraid to use it again. instead of throwing it away, he released it in the wild, so that the poor thing can enjoy the last hours before death happily rolling around in the late winter snow.

sometimes

2009-02-26T16:41:00.003+02:00

after watching the movie religolous last week, i saw an angel in my garden. looks like bill maher got it all wrong - there is a god, or not?

gif me a cake

2009-02-25T17:49:00.006+02:00

making this gif was a piece of cake,

but for baking this cake i had to be more gifted,

probably this isn't the most wonderful gif,

but the cake certainly is the best i ever gifed.

mmh... there still are three pieces left.

111 snowballs and 1 black cat

2009-02-24T13:36:00.004+02:00

if you do this every day for the next 3 months, then you will loose 5 kilos, but it might just happen that your neighbour will sue you because you shot his cat and you loose even more.
some keywords to get more attention: Bikini, Slumdog, millionaire, Atom power, Paris, Radisson, timetable, dirty, free, Obama

inspired by art

2009-02-20T16:36:00.003+02:00

recently i attended a presentation of latvian artist armands zelcs and his inside-out objects inspired me to make an inside-out gif. unlike his inside-out boat, my glove doesn't loose his function, it just changes. instead of beeing a left hand glove, it becomes a right hand glove. well what is the function of a two right hand gloves? i tell you when i find out. well if it was a sock, the guy with two left feet from the movie "Best in Show" could be interested if the whole thing was again the other way round...

meat beat

2009-02-15T16:38:00.005+02:00

mmmmh... delicious!!!!!!!

(ku)sh!

2009-02-14T13:15:00.002+02:00

the new sh! is out. it is readable from both sides. so it has has two beautiful covers, one from bendik kaltenborn and one from anete melece. more infos i don't gif, you can take a look yourself on www.myspace.com/kushmagazine.

orange tape

2009-02-13T10:38:00.002+02:00

last week i watched nicolas robel putting up organge tape in an exhibition in riga. i made this small gif, but you should check out this immense gif he made: http://is.gd/j0XD

i didn’t gif up...

2009-02-13T10:22:00.001+02:00

...but the paper weight i got for christmas has a defect and that makes everything a bit difficult. if you look closely you see, it is still holding the papers in place, but on the other hand everything else on the table moves or even falls off…

movie quiz

2008-12-30T13:03:00.002+02:00

this depicts a lady from one of the best ever produced animation movies which hit the screens in 2007. can you guess which movie it is? One hint, it is based on a comic book...

solution (read backwards): silopesrep

furry paper weight I

2008-12-16T13:01:00.002+02:00

this furry paper weight really is great! i am still satisfied, still no papers flew away from my desk and check out this great ventilating function:

the only minus of this function is, that all papers which are not under the weight now for sure will fly away!

christmas presents

2008-12-15T11:04:00.002+02:00

more ideas for christmas. why not gifing your loved ones a pair of shoes? this certainly is an original present and can make a lot of people happy, not only the one who receive the present. the size of the shoes is actually not so important, more thought should be gifen on how to gif this gift, and remember: it's the thought that counts!

furry paper weight

2008-12-15T09:10:00.003+02:00

christmas approaching and you don't have presents yet for your loved ones? this could also be a nice idea as christmas present for you! i recently found this great paper weight and i think it will be pleasing me for a long while! it has some great functions, it is not like an ordinary paper weight! it doesn't only prevent your papers from flying away you can have much more fun with it, you can for example turn it's head into different directions!!! yeah, check it out:

stay tuned and learn about more great functions of the furry paper weight!

-2°C

2008-11-03T23:27:00.002+02:00

last night it was less than 0° and this night it seems the temperatures fall even lower, so it is high time to turn up the heating.

proximate countdown

2008-10-30T15:48:00.003+02:00

looks like i have nothing else to do today but playing with dice, unfortunately it is not true, this dice exercise was just a great way to procrastinate more serious tasks.

disco inferno

2008-10-28T19:12:00.002+02:00

ha, this gif was easy to make. the postcard itself is already a kind of gif. really nice i think. especially the deer with the beer seems to be in a good disco mood. by the way the card is made by claudia blum and she has lots of interesting moving things in her portfolio.

checking

2008-10-27T23:18:00.002+02:00

today i was working further down on my checklist. unfortunately it wasn't as easy as it looks and there still are a lot uf unchecked boxes.

bottle strip

2008-10-22T17:01:00.002+03:00

yesterday i was witness of a somehow different strip show, naughty!

waiting

2008-10-21T15:06:00.005+03:00

while i was waiting for two friends, three trams passed by

peter II

2008-10-12T22:59:00.002+03:00

last week in st. petersburg. truely nice and mild but windy weather which was very inviting for long walks even during the night. (photos provided by ksprs, thanks!)

st.petersburg cafe scene

2008-10-11T15:10:00.002+03:00

fingerprints

2008-10-09T21:47:00.002+03:00

makes me really hungry, my finger look more like sausages through the scanner. i wonder how will look my ear, mmmmh.

color changing bubble gum

2008-10-07T19:07:00.003+03:00

despite all my fears i unwrap the gum...

... and start cheewing. amazing, the color is really changing (no photoshop!) but you have to chew about half an hour and the gum get's quite untasty.

souvenir

2008-10-06T01:10:00.002+03:00

the best souvenir i got in russia is this great chewing gum, which looks japanese, but is actually produced in corea. why it is so great you might ask? because this chewing gum can not only dance, but also changes it's color! this will be seen in a following post, if i still will be able to do it, because i just found out that the manufacturer not only produces confectionery but also "Construction & Heavy-Chemical". no wonder they have their own welfare foundation.
check www.lotteconf.co.kr and learn more about lotte "bringing prosperty and happyness to the world".

botanical garden XVII

2008-10-05T23:44:00.002+03:00

i was not only excited by the nice flowers, eh, i meant to say, not only i was excited by the nice flowers!