{"id":24300,"date":"2014-07-16T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/romain-laurent"},"modified":"2021-07-16T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T07:15:39","slug":"romain-laurent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/romain-laurent\/","title":{"rendered":"Romain Laurent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gca-column one-half first\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/wit_balkje.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"23\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/wit_balkje.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/wit_balkje-300x20.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/6_lyts.gif\" alt=\"6_lyts\" width=\"125\" height=\"118\"\/><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 40pt;\">U<\/span><\/strong><\/span>it de serie <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Kunsdt! @ eamel\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/category\/kunsdt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kunsdt, Omdat 't Kan<\/em><\/a><\/span>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Romain Laurent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.romain-laurent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romain Laurent<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>We gaan er even gemakshalve vanuit dat u inmiddels op de hoogte van mijn voorliefde voor <em>animated gifs<\/em>.&nbsp;En dan heb ik 't niet over die <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Aargh!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/heaven.internetarchaeology.org\/heaven.html#bottom\" target=\"_blank\">kermisvariant<\/a><\/span>. Nee, <em>Artistiek Verantwoord<\/em> is <em>Het Nieuwe Zwart<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wel, meneer <em>Laurent<\/em> verst\u00e0\u00e0t de kunst van euh.. <em>Geanimeerde Kunst<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Nu zou ik natuurlijk heel diepzinnig kunnen doen over compositie, kleurgebruik en enkele vermeende psychologische achtergrondtheorie\u00ebn inzake het <em>hoe-en-waarom<\/em> maar daarmee zou ik de schoonheid van deze bewegende plaatjes alleen maar geweld aan doen.&nbsp;Btw; de beste man is ook <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Romain @ Vimeo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/romainlaurent\" target=\"_blank\">geen onverdienstelijk filmer<\/a><\/span> zoals je boven kunt zien.&nbsp;Kortom; oordeel zelf.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #339966;\"><em>Romain<\/em>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain Laurent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.romain-laurent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/span> | <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain @ facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Romain-Laurent\/140352805979188\" target=\"_blank\">facebook<\/a><\/span> | <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain @ tumblr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/romainlaurent.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">tumblr<\/a><\/span> | <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain @ instagram\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/romain_laurent\" target=\"_blank\">instagram<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"gca-column one-half\"><div style=\"background-color: #f5f5f5;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2_lyts.gif\" alt=\"2_lyts\" width=\"125\" height=\"118\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 40pt;\">F<\/span><\/strong><\/span>rom the series <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Art! @ eamel\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/category\/kunsdt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Art, Because We Can<\/em><\/a><\/span>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Romain Laurent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.romain-laurent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Romain Laurent<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Let's assume you're already aware of my fetisj for <em>animated gifs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not talking about that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Aaargh!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/heaven.internetarchaeology.org\/heaven.html#bottom\" target=\"_blank\"><em>bling-bling<\/em>&nbsp;horror<\/a><\/span>. No; <em>Artistically&nbsp;Engaged<\/em>&nbsp;is <em>The New Black<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mister <em>Laurent<\/em> KNOWS&nbsp;his&nbsp;<em>Animated Art.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I suppose I now could go on about composition, use of colour and maybe some alleged, psychological meaning behind it all&nbsp;but that would only do wrong to the beauty of his moving pictures.<\/p>\n<p>PS. Mister <em>Laurent<\/em> is not without merit on the subject of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Romain @ Vimeo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/romainlaurent\" target=\"_blank\">filming either<\/a><\/span> as you can see above.<\/p>\n<p>In short; judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #339966;\"><em>Romain<\/em>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain Laurent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.romain-laurent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain @ facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Romain-Laurent\/140352805979188\" target=\"_blank\">facebook<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain @ tumblr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/romainlaurent.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">tumblr<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>|&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #339966;\" title=\"Romain @ instagram\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/romain_laurent\" target=\"_blank\">instagram<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"gca-utility clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/92181679?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24336\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n62473fMFv1qef46ho1_5001.gif\" alt=\"When I snap my finger\" width=\"960\" height=\"1344\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Karen D\u2019Ambrosi creates tiny shock waves with the snap of a finger<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_24337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24337\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_n8b3tdgm1U1qef46ho1_5001.gif\" alt=\"How's it hangin'\" width=\"960\" height=\"1344\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Part of Vincent Cyr of Astronauts Wanted was left hanging in NYC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_24321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24321\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/romain-laurent-looping-portrait-8.gif\" alt=\"Self-inflicted coffee wound\" width=\"960\" height=\"1342\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Nicole Bogatitus didn\u2019t have enough coffee this morning<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_24322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24322\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/romain-laurent-looping-portrait-1.gif\" alt=\"You should be dancing\" width=\"960\" height=\"1344\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">One last of Vincent Cyr, whose inner self is feeling real smooth right now<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_24323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24323\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/romain-laurent-looping-portrait-2.gif\" alt=\"Hoppetyhop\" width=\"960\" height=\"1344\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vincent Cyr, host of the new show Astronauts Wanted finds the energy of NYC hopping<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure id=\"attachment_24324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24324\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/romain-laurent-looping-portrait-3.gif\" alt=\"Parkinson 2.0\" width=\"960\" height=\"1344\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lee Towndrow is a terrific &#8211; 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And me.\" width=\"960\" height=\"1344\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For 2014, Eric Beug is working on his lung strength<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_passwords":"","passster_password_list":"","passster_password_lists":"","passster_activate_user_restriction":"","passster_user_restriction_type":"user-role","passster_user_restriction":"no-role","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1622,1026,34,23,60,9,107,8],"tags":[1668,1105,1109,1115,1123,1130,2502,1152,1156,1171],"class_list":["post-24300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1622","category-animated-gif","category-beeld","category-cool","category-filmpke","category-humor","category-kunsdt","category-technyk","tag-1668","tag-animated-gif","tag-beeld","tag-cool","tag-filmpke","tag-humor","tag-romain-laurent","tag-sfeer-en-sa","tag-technyk","tag-vimeo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eamel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}