Despite Instagram video's meteoric rise in the video sharing space, some of us here at Gadget Lab are still staunch fans of the 6-second, looping video offered by Vine.
While the short 6-second time limit encourages you to be creative and judicious with what you post on the platform, it's the GIF-like looping that adds a new layer of depth. As Rex Sorgatz argues in this week's View Source column on the Tribeca Film website, loops are not just short films. They're artifacts that gain additional depth and meaning through continual reexamination.
Our favorite thing about the looping is that it can be used to create unique illusions - trippy stairs that seem to go on and on forever, an unexpected twist to something which, at first, seems totally ordinary. In Vine videos, the sound loops, too, adding to the dissociative effect. Check out the examples above and below to see what we mean.
So here's a challenge: Wired wants you to come up with your own Vine optical illusions and share them with us. Use the tag #WiredOpticalIllusion on your Vine posts over the next 24 hours - that's right you have ONE DAY, folks - and we will collect our favorites and share them here on Gadget Lab. Only add the tag to your own videos, and only post new videos that you yourself (or you and your friends) created.
Get Vining!
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