viaAccording to his snippet on Google, artist Evan Roth is the “Biggest Bad A** MotherF***** on the Internet." So, what does one do to earn that title? Well, for one thing, when he’s not studying the motion of graffiti, or mapping the hand motions of Angry Birds players, he's remixing GIFs out of found art from Wikipedia, morphing them into undulating mandalas, creepy creatures and landscapes for his GIF art series, No Original Research.To create his No Original Research images, Roth finds strange GIFs, such as vertebrates and rhombic dodecahedrons, and then repeats and layers them on top of each other. The result, after hundreds of multiplications, forms an unrecognizable, monster GIF. Each new creation exists on its own page in his portal, and its page source links back to the Wikipedia entry upon which he found the original GIF.“Wikipedia is one of the few places on the web that’s really free of ego at the moment, right?” he explained to Wired. “All these animated GIFs on Wikipedia that aren’t about people posting cool animated GIFs on their tumblr blog—its just like someone needed to describe how that hinge worked or how that engine worked, so they made these animations that have a reason for being there.”So how does one go about turning 3D renderings of molecules into warped, kaleidoscopic animations? Here's a comparison between Roth's original findings and his morphed GIFs:Original Wikipedia GIFRoth's hack
Original Wikipedia GIFRoth's hack
h/t Wired
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