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Animated GIFs Feature Street Art Playfully Interacting with Landscape

Do you see something moving on that wall? You can thank A.L.Crego for that! The photographer and motion designer from Spain creates incredible GIF images using the outdoor environment in his whimsical scenes. He animates things like street art and building windows as a way to transform normally photographs into something that you want to watch over and over again.

Perhaps most notably, Crego brings outdoor painted people to life. They interact with the surrounding architecture, and we see a boy pulling a cord that turns a bright light off and on. In addition, we witness a woman move a manhole cover to write graffiti on the street, while another figure miraculously opens up a door to toss the world in the water (and he falls along with it!). They are all delightfully imaginative, and it once again shows us just how compelling animated GIFs like this can be.

A.L.Crego Tumblr
via [Cross Connect Mag]

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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