Culture Buzz The iPhone app Cinemagram seems to be an amalgamation of Instagram, animated GIFs, and the moving paintings at Hogwarts. Now we just need the technology to print these out for walls and wallets, and it will really be the future.
Animated GIF of the Day: Avery Monsen and Jory John’s best-selling not-really-for-children children’s book All My Friends Are Dead gets an appropriately titled sequel, All My Friends Are Still Dead. Spoiler Alert: Everybody dies in the end.
Culture Buzz “I don't know where to begin.” For the latest in their “Teens React to Viral Videos” series, the Fine Brothers tackled the diva beauty queen “It” girl of the moment, “Toddlers & Tiaras” star Alana “Honey Boo-Boo Child” Shannon and her mother, “Coupon Queeeeeeen” June. Here are the results.
TV Buzz Today's episode of “Anderson” focused on TLC's “Toddlers & Tiaras.” So naturally, it featured “Coupon Queen” June Shannon and her Go-Go Juice-addicted daughter, “Honey Boo-Boo Child” Alana. Heated discussions were had, mommy pageant makeovers were given, and Anderson Cooper couldn't stop drinking the special juice (that's gonna make him wiiiiiiin). Here's everything you missed.
Culture Buzz How are you feeling today? Is February fab or drab for you so far? Leave a response in the comments with an animated GIF that sums up your state of mind! Let's do this thing.
TV Buzz “I'm about to go ghetto on you, giiiirl!” Six-year-old Mountain Dew and Red Bull-addicted beauty queen Alana, daughter of “Coupon Queen” June and nicknamed “Honey Boo-Boo Child” by America after her infamous “Toddlers & Tiaras” episode, was featured on “Dr. Drew's Lifechangers” today. And boy oh boy was it life-changing!
TV Buzz I scoured the internet (mostly tumblr) for this masterpost that collects every possible animated GIF you would need from TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras
Culture Buzz You don't really love something until you post an animated gif of yourself loving it on your blog.
Culture Buzz Circles are great and all, but Google+'s killer feature, in my opinion, is support for animated GIFs. All this Google+ Vs. Facebook bashing is being expressed in a surprisingly Tumblresque fashion.
Movie Buzz I haven't even seen the movie, so I can't tell you if this post contains spoilers or not. The consensus among reviewers is that the movie's strengths are in the performances and not the writing. So I'd venture boldly into this post without fear of critical plot points being revealed.
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Here are 51 cute, hilarious, and just plain odd pug faces for your entertainment. They have little sausage bodies and don’t mind being dressed up, what’s not to love? (via The Uniblog)
Culture Buzz The Tumblr animalsbeingdicks is a pretty entertaining collection of animated gifs of… well, you read the title. Here's just a taste of everything they have to offer.
Culture Buzz Dump.fm was being hyped as “the new 4chan” last spring. Since I still haven't gotten an invite for canv.as yet, I decided to revisit dump.fm and highlight some of my favorite finds!
This amazing 10 minute video by Evan Roth is made entirely out of animated .gif images he found on the web. I don't even want to think about how many of them I have saved on my computer. Favorites at 5:38 and 5:45. (Laughing Squid via F.A.T.)
This is pretty much what I was like after Christmas dinner everybody! Hope you all had a great weekend!
A blog of Facebook photos that were taken seconds apart animated into hypnotic two–frame gifs. Thanks to their lovely javascript arrow–key commands I can spend literally minutes just flicking back and forth between pictures and giggling like a Japanese schoolgirl.
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HTML, the Movie or The Resolution Will Not Be Televised, a Film by Jesse Hulcher and “Pony Eyelashes~”. [via] When words fail, animated GIFs are the answer.
BuzzFeed just added animated GIFs support! Now your responses and quick posts can have that awesome 1990s web style! Try it out by responding with your nomination for the greatest animated gif ever.
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A guy with a Web developer girlfriend finds the perfect way to piss her off. UPDATE: Site down right now for exceeding bandwidth limits. Now this guy is annoying his girlfriend AND all the web surfers who want to see this funny site.
Culture Buzz Using the power of the Force to bowl a strike isn't the same as destroying Alderaan, but it's still pretty evil.