Top 10 of Our Favorite Things: Animated GIFs
Before Flash there were… animated GIFs! Whole entire movies made out of Graphics Interchange Format! Apparently Thomas Edison, inventor of something they call the light-bulb, died a very frustrated man, having touched the edges of GIFology but never quite having reached the core. Torture! But we digress. The silent and seemingly endless quagmire of animated GIFery on the interweb, reveals a marvelous array minimal-frame offerings by savvy hipsters and obscure artistes. Compiling this Top 10 was a challenge (and then some), as there are myriad rad ones, but we hope you’ve enjoyed it!
1. Ron Jeremy Chest Hair by Mark Portillo
Hair and GIFs: a match made in heaven, surely! And for good measure, other ones we love from Portillo:
Rock Paper Scissors (a version that randomly generates would be fun!)
Bill Haverchuck (we don’t know you Bill, but we like you.)
2. Explorations in Psychadelic teenocide
What it says on the packet.
3. Gee Wiggly
Tilt-shift + two-frame = fun times!
4. You Make Me So Happy
Definitely epilepsy potential.
5. Clowns
Clowns are always creepy but animated girl-GIF clowns are just terrifying.
6. Spacenuckle Selection
Sometimes GIFs are so shrouded in mystery that we can’t give props where props are due. Like the entire Dante Ross / Spacenuckle selection, for instance.
7. Brezhnev’s eyebrows
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Hair and GIFs: a match made in heaven!
8. Changethethought Selection
Can you guess which movie the Evolution GIF is from?
9. Sweet GIFS
Less moribund, these boast more of a feminine touch.
10. More Work
Scroll down a bit, and then BRACE YOURSELF because it’s kinda grim.
