Tag: Webby Awards
The internet-centric Webby awards named Banksy “Person of the Year” recently, and the anonymous street artist released the video above this week in lieu of an acceptance speech. The clip shows behind the scenes footage of his Better Out Than In residency and feels a little self-congratulatory — until you get to the kicker at the end. […]
At the Webby Awards last night, Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF, used his lifetime achievement award acceptance speech to inform the public that his most famous invention is “pronounced JIF, not GIF.” He did so using a GIF, naturally. Wilhite is wrong. GIFs are GIFs, not JIFs, because “Graphics Interchange Format” starts with a hard […]
