Dec 05
Google’s Auto-Awesome feature
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Nov 14
OK, if you are one of those weirdos who thinks GIFs are irritating and pointless, this website that lets people insert their own faces into a variety of animated scenarios will not please you. Not one bit.
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Nov 08
With movies you’ve already seen, sitting through the whole thing again is a little bit much. Since you already know what’s going to happen, you only need to see a few key sequences to get the same amount of enjoyment. A quick top off as opposed to a full refill, you know? Reddit understood that and developed a whole new genre of animated gifs: the full movie GIF, an entire movie distilled into a GIF shot.
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Oct 30
If you ever, for a second, wondered questions like what’s the purpose of life or why the Internet exists or what are you going to eat for lunch today, the answer is simply this magical software tool created by GitHub user LindseyB. It automatically turns any Star Wars quote into an animated GIF, complete with caption of said quote.
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Aug 30
The animated GIF is a medium born of the digital age. But this artist’s mechanized flipbook project is a combination of frame-by-frame animation and kinetic sculpture—an infinite loop for a simpler time.
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Aug 02
Only a handful of individuals have succeeded in making the GIF into something artful. We can definitely add artist and designer Guillaume Kurkdjian to that list, because his collection of lovely, child-like animations are dioramas of whimsical delight.
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Mar 11
You might as well just call it a day now, because look at this baby puppy spinning in a puppy-sized bowl. It’s the very first GIF created by renowned dog photographer William Wegman, best known for his pictures of Weimaraners in various costumes and poses. More »
Feb 18
If you thought stunning images of nebulous gas clouds in space couldn’t get any prettier, think again. Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsävainio has combined art and science to make these stunning 3D-esque animated GIFs of nebulae. More »
Jan 24
These illustrated GIFs by artist Stephen Vuillemin are incredible. They’re rife with illegal or borderline-illegal activity, and many are in French. Even if you’re a total prude and you don’t understand a lick of French, you won’t be able to look away. More »
Jan 24
Twitter just got more GIF-friendly, by introducing Vine, a new video-sharing service for clips that are six seconds or less. More »
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