Reading davenchit‘s comment about where the animated gif in one of my earlier posts was from made me rack my brains like crazy. Generally, if I surf the net and come across something interesting, it either gets saved to my del.icio.us account or, if the site in question is one that’s regularly updated with consistently good content, adds itself to my Google Reader. Interesting images – which includes hilarious LJ icons, animated gifs, screen-caps, celebrity por…uh…, you know, stuff – get saved to a temporary folder, which I later consolidate into a single folder somewhere. That stays on disk forever. Well, until the next drive crash, in which case I just think of them as collateral damage and continue with my life.

But hey, if you point to a particular image and ask me where I got it from, I would say, like I told davenchit before, “some random forum”. That’s because the above schema does not allow me to remember the source.

Today however, I wanted to find out where the image originated from. Out of ideas about searching for forums – do I look at comic art stuff or at scans_daily or at torrent forums or comic blogs or…how HOW?? A little creative googling to the rescue. The gif was linked by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing a couple of years ago, and the creator happens to be a guy named Paul Robertson. Yes, he has a Livejournal. Yes, the journal has a ton of other gifs too. There is also an artblog run by him and a couple of other guys that’s pretty swell. And Paul apparently has made animated movies featuring arcade-game-style fights, blood, gore, mayhem and complete bedlam. I got one of them here. There is another, available on torrents as well and you can get more details of it here. The movie I got was 12 minutes long, and though the style gets a tad repetitive, I wouldn’t call it boring AT ALL.

Amazing stuff.