Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008” and ...
First off, what is a GIF, we hear some of you ask? Well, it stands for Graphics Interchange Format and is traditionally used to mean an animated image of some kind (sort of like a Boomerang but it ...
That up there might look like some very cool but not particularly unusual street art. And that's pretty much what it is, if you were to see it on the London street where it lives. But that physical ...
From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. Featured Video The modern-day GIF was introduced to ...
The internet shares a complex relation with animated images, better known as GIFs. On one hand it has elevated the format to an art form, a short-hand language of social media, and an education tool.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The GIFs that Trevor Van Meter creates are not the sort that most people know through social media. Instead of short, looping video clips sourced from movies ...
A Jilly Ballistic and Ryan Seslow collaboration (all images courtesy the artists) Street art and GIFs might seem an unlikely pair: the former exists out in the physical world, often only fleetingly, ...
“GIF-fiti” turns a static street wall mural into moving GIF art for launch of Dwyane Wade’s limited edition kicks. Graffiti murals are striking in how the bright colors and strong lines of the art ...
Kate Bones combines digital and analogue techniques to brilliant effect. Photographs shot on film are transformed into animated portraits and looping GIFs with hand-drawn elements. She has created GIF ...
Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...
What does the history of GIF art look like? This is a tricky question to answer because while there has been no shortage of animated GIF exhibitions, there is a dearth of documentation. Bond Street, a ...
That up there might look like some very cool but not particularly unusual street art. And that's pretty much what it is, if you were to see it on the London street where it lives. But that physical ...
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