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13 Animated Gifs of Amazing Animal Facts
QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, hosted by Stephen Fry, and featuring permanent panelist Alan Davies. Most of the...
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How To Moonwalk in 5 ‘Animated’ Steps
If there is one dance move that is always sure to impress, it’s the moonwalk. The dance technique became popular around the world after Michael Jackson executed it during a performance of “Billie...
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10 Animations that Show How Faces Age Over Time
The aging process is ongoing and one we don’t typically notice on a daily basis (see the captivating video at the bottom of the post, it perfectly demonstrates the subtlety of aging). However, when...
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21 Epic Ways Reddit Celebrated Halloween This Year
With over 70 million unique visitors and roughly 5 billion pageviews a month (source), reddit is unequivocally massive. When it comes to big celebrations like Halloween, you can be sure to find an...
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How It’s Made: The GIF Edition
Humans are an industrious lot. When we need to make a ‘lot’ of something, we figure out a way to do it cheaply and efficiently. Below is a compilation of animated gifs that show how everyday products...
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This Simple Visual Trick Makes GIFs Looks Three-Dimensional
The animated gif community on Tumblr is one of the strongest on the Internet. A rising trend on the microblogging platform is #3D gifs. By simply adding some vertical white bars to each frame of the...
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This is What Sound Looks Like
Adam Cole is the science fanatic behind NPR’s popular science blog Skunk Bear. In a recent post, Cole wondered if he could use a technique known as Schlieren Flow Visualization to see sound. The...
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Outstretched Cat That Likes Hugs Goes Viral. Internet Reacts Accordingly
A video released last week entitled Best Kitty Hug Ever has already been viewed nearly 700,000 times. Of course an animated gif of the video was created shortly thereafter and has already been...
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The Shirk Report – GIF edition pt 3
The Sifter is currently travelling and Internet access has been limited (shudders). If you’re a long time reader of the Shirk Report you may recall this happened last January 2013, where in lieu of a...
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18 Animated Gifs Directed by Michael Bay
This. Is. BAYHEM! When Michael Bay directs animated gifs, explosions happen. Lots of them. A recent reddit post by jerip123 entitled, Unecessary Explosions unearthed a subreddit called...
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The Style Transformation of David Bowie in One Glorious Gif
In celebration of David Bowie’s 68th birthday (8 January 1947), artist Helen Green created the glorious animated gif above to show the style icon’s transformations over the years. The gif is made up...
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Looping Gifs of Supercell Thunderstorms
Mike Hollingshead of Extreme Instability has released an amazing series of 17 HD looping storm gifs at an amazing 1920×1080 resolution. You can check out the full gallery here but be warned, some of...
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Picture of the Day: Sunset on Mars
Photograph by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M Univ. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recorded this sequence of views of the sun setting at the close of the mission’s 956th Martian day, or sol (April...
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The History of Same-Sex Marriage in the US in a Single Gif
What a difference 20 years can make. After last Friday’s landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, Mic.com created the informative gif above that shows the history of same-sex...
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This Artist Animates Athletes Going Super Saiyan and They’re Awesome
Brian Hwang (@proxyrax) is a freelance motion graphics artist based in Los Angeles. In an ongoing series (he’s done 7 to date), Brian animates famous athletes going ‘Super Saiyan‘. For those...
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48 Awesome Exercises in a Single Animated Gif
Copenhagen-based motion graphic studio CCCCCCC created 100+ animations for the new fitness app 7DailyMoves, 48 of which you can see in the amazing animated gif below. On Dribble, the studio adds:...
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There’s a Fighting Game Featuring Famous Scientists and Their Special Moves...
Artist Diego Sanches designed pixel art characters and animations for an upcoming game called Science Combat for Superinteressante magazine. The Street Fighter-style fighting game features eight...
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Picture of the Day: Street Heart
Artwork by Lonac Street artist Lonac recently completed this spray painted mural of a heart, cleverly incorporating the building’s pipes as part of the piece. The mural, entitled “HeArtbeats”, was...
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Awesome Animal Illustrations Made From 13 Different Sized Circles
Inspired by Twitter’s logo, which is also made from 13 various sized circles, artist Dorota Pankowska challenged herself to illustrate 13 different animals using only 13 circles. On her website,...
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Instagram for Windows 95
In a fun creative exercise, designer Misha Petrick imagines what Instagram might have looked like on the Windows 95 operating system. The tongue-in-cheek project, recently shared on Behance, does...
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