Jason Eppink's Catalogue of Creative Triumphs

On February 5, 2011, T. Finn, a member of the comedy website Something Awful, posted a doctored animated GIF of Senegalese soccer player El Hadji Diouf being clobbered by an invisible opponent. His challenge to image-editing-savvy members was simple: visualize what tripped El Hadji Diouf. Over the next several weeks, more than a hundred remixed animated GIFs poured in. The cumulative result was one of the Web’s most “epic” Photoshop threads, highlighting the ease of moving-image manipulation and its proliferation as a natural extension of everyday online communication.

We Tripped El Hadji Diouf presents the most surprising, clever, and imaginative responses. These short videos were not created with commercial intentions or claims to fine art. Instead, their makers were using widely-available image-editing tools to participate in a humorous visual conversation and engage in playful one-upmanship.

Exhibition History
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Credits

Curator

Instigator
T. Finn

GIF creators
A LOVELY LAD
Angryhead
Canis Ex Machina
Checkered Slacks
DBlanK
Defiant Cement
DGDO
Dieting Hippo
Hiilai
HopWallace
Kieselguhr Kid
Krenzo
Liska
Metanaut
origami manatee
photoshop
Poopelyse
Ragequit
Rotten Cookies
Schweinhund
Shapiro
Shmorky
Sir_Lagsalot
SlightButSteady
squirt the daisies
Steneub
tearshed
Teim
Trochanter
WhatEvil
Yabanjin

Available in the following departments: Concepts, Curations, Experiments
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