Finding that perfect little looping animation of dogs breaking up a cat fight, Elmo jumping, or Guy Fieri lapping up Pellegrino is about to get much easier: Today, Google announced a new image search feature that will allow you to filter your results to receive GIFs. A lucky few (not me) users have GIF search already, but the feature is still in the process of rolling out, according to creator Neil Alldrin. To see if you’ve got it, do a search, select “Search Tools,” then “Type,” and check whether “Animated” is an option. GIF magic!
Artist Evan Roth has love for the GIF. Here's his set of ten new One Gif Compositions, all created from single vintage GIF from the Heather’s Animations archive, chronicling early GIFs from as far back as 1999. You can see A Tribute To Heather in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, through…
Welcome to the next few hours of your day: Chris Shier created gifmelter, a bookmarklet that turns any GIF or static image into a pixelated, decomposing swirl. It's grotesque and beautiful and mesmerizing and you should just take a look at it and stop reading this now. Paste the URL…
Artists Evan Roth (F.A.T., Graffiti Research Lab, Eye-Writer) and Geoffrey Lillemon (holy shit look at his website) teamed up for a new project, Image-of-Edessa. Image-of-Edessa explores the notion of worship, the Internet and identity. A portrait is rendered entirely of animated gifs, a medium native to the web and commonly used to represent…
