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Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated…

December 31 2012, 6:59am | Comments
Bookmark GIFABILITY
Writing in the early 1990s, Susan Stewart observed that “with the advent of film, interpretation has been replaced by watching … Here we see the increasing historical tendency toward the self-sufficient…

November 21 2012, 3:26am | Comments
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Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments
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Why Do Sign Language Interpreters Look So Animated?

November 11 2012, 1:02am | Comments
Misc GIFbites Submission Guidelines GIFbites is a weekly podcast on/about/for animated GIFs. Each episode lasts no more than 15 seconds. If you’d like to submit your own 15 second GIFbite, for future inclusion in the show, keep these things in mind: Submissions should be no more than…

October 31 2012, 9:00pm | Comments
Tumblr Interstellar Pulse intothecontinuum: In July 1967, astronomers...

July 25 2012, 7:01am | Comments
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Tumblr ❤ GIFs

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
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March 10 2012, 4:13am | Comments
Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments
Tumblr acecalhoun is worthy of a few jams for this one: “Lastly, and...

June 17 2011, 12:36pm | Comments
Portfolio The Doctrine of the Similar (GIF GIF GIF)

May 25 2011, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art
You can satisfy your low-brow GIF cravings on sites like 4chan or the countless GIF-glorifying Tumblrs like GIF Party and Fuck Yeah GIFs. A step above is the image-based chat site…

May 19 2011, 11:50am | Comments
Bookmark Graphics Interchange Format At Denison University's Mulberry ...
Since the early days of the web, users have been posting animated GIFs. Once synonymous with shoveling construction workers on parked domains, these moving images now more commonly find their way…

May 19 2011, 11:48am | Comments
Bookmark Flash Symposium at Birkbeck, 24th May 2011
Ideal for the commute, the lunch-hour, the stolen moment: shortness necessitates the perfect user-friendly format, arguably suited to the fast paced nature of everyday contemporary urban living. At the same time…

May 17 2011, 2:26pm | Comments
Bookmark The glorious GIF renaissance
GIFs (the name stands for graphics interchange format and can be pronounced with either a hard or soft G) began life in the mid-'80s, image files so efficiently compressed that sluggish…

May 17 2011, 2:46am | Comments
Ask Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested in the GIF as an archaeological reference point. I frequent sites like dump.fm, tumblr etc.…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments
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...in particular I'd like to track down some REALLY (in)famous GIFs. Both individually & as memes spinning out of their originator's control

May 16 2011, 7:02am | Comments
Bookmark Gif art without the glitch
I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated banners…

April 25 2011, 5:07pm | Comments
Bookmark The Year of The Animated Gif
2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments

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