I am really enjoying checking out the animation over at Aubrey Longley-Cook’s photobucket page. In particularly, I’m interested in the series pictured here in which Aubrey did fifteen different embroidered images of a dog and then compiled them into an animation of the dog running.

Why this is so smart:

• It has flip-book features. I’ve always loved flip-book style art because it’s fun and I also really respect the amount of detail and time that goes into creating each of the individual images that makes up this type of artwork.
• It combines old and new art forms. You have the high-tech art of online animation and it’s used to animate the old-fashioned art of embroidery. Genius.
• The artist has single-handedly brought attention to a new art form. It’s called manbroidery. Guys who aren’t afraid to dabble in traditionally feminine arts bring something fresh and new to the table.
• The value of repetition. There is something to be said for repetition in art. It allows you to explore your creative processes in more depth if you do them again and again. Here we have not only the repetition of stitches within one piece of art but then the repetition of strikingly similar images embroidered again and again for use in the animation and then the repetition of the animated image on repeat. Very fascinating.

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