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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

GIFs are designed to loop short clips–generally a couple seconds long–over and over until you close your browser window. But As Long As Possible is a different kind of GIF; one rendered on a geologic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who click “Like” on funny animated GIFs they see on the Internet. And the kind who take funny animated GIFs they see on the Internet and send them ...

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, ...