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13 Hand-Painted Murals Brought To Life As Animated GIFs
Even if you’ve never heard of INSA, you’ve probably seen his work — the British street artist has designed signature collections for everyone from Nike to Kid Robot. But his latest work is a little bit more immortal: INSA’s making GIFs.
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Google’s Auto-Awesome Will Make Your Photos Snow Or Twinkle
Google’s Auto-Awesome feature that’s baked into Google+ already does cool things, like make your pictures more balanced, auto-stitch panoramas, and even create animated GIFs. Today, it’s adding two new Holiday-ish Auto-Awesomes. It’s either the best new feature, or the cheesiest, worst new feature. You decide.
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A 120-Year-Old Animation Machine That Can Play Your Favourite GIFs
Way back in 1894, an inventor named Herman Casler started a business making Mutoscopes, a newfangled device that animated still images using a hand-cranked winch. Casler probably never imagined that a version of his device would be used to animate digital files. Behold: The Giphoscope.
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This Online Archive Collects 19th Century “GIFs” Of Yore
Phenakistoscopes, praxinoscopes and zoetropes, oh my! Richard Balzer, a 69-year-old New York native, has cultivated a remarkable online museum of early animations and optical toys of the 18th and 19th centuries.