Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...

Meet Orbo. He’s one of the most prolific and talented GIF artists on the Internet. His specialty is making GIFs that never end because they’re stuck in an infinite loop. I can stare at them all day.

When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Game of Thrones" season six. The "Game of Thrones" fandom is known for its artistic approach to celebrating the epic series. From large-scale art installations to ...

Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once — à la Twitter — but ...

There's nothing quite as momentarily incapacitating as a perfect loop GIF. No matter what is occupying your mind at the moment -- be it work, a first date, a bank robbery, whatever -- show someone a ...

This is a guide to making smoothly looped GIF, or cinemagraph. The process is a combination of two disciplines: making the loop and making the GIF. It’s important to note up front that in this guide, ...

Using computer software, designer and artist George Redhawk, has created these absolutely stunning images. The looped GIFs are beautifully haunting, and even more incredible when you discover that ...

The result is a stuttering, three-dimensional walk through a day of people-watching, condensed into three-and-a-half minutes. Johnson used a Nimslo, a stereo camera that produces 3-D GIF images, which ...