The animated GIF is the Hallmark card of the internet–distributed on a whim to verbalize some emotion, only to be tossed aside after a brief laugh. It’s the most disposable and reproducible of medias, ...

When you access Sketch Machine, the canvas is displayed on the left side of the screen, and various settings are displayed on the right side. First, draw a line as you can think of on the canvas to ...

Before there were GIFs there were motion pictures. And before film on reels, these “movies” were made up of actual printed still images that zipped in front of your eyes in rapid succession with the ...

GIF animated images are useful when it comes to learning how stuff works. They can make topics as tortuous as trigonometry interesting and fun, but they can also be used to show how normal, real-world ...

You gotta love the animated GIF. Sure it was responsible for the flashing and blinking of some the 1990s' worst web home-pages, but how else would you explain the ...

Way back in 1894, an inventor named Herman Casler started a business making Mutoscopes, a newfangled device that animated still images using a hand-cranked winch. Casler probably never imagined that a ...

Even with all the video streaming options available to us today, there’s nothing that can match the weird, mesmerizing quality of a good animated GIF. That’s why no matter where you go on the Internet ...