When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once — à la Twitter — but ...

This is a guide to making smoothly looped GIF, or cinemagraph. The process is a combination of two disciplines: making the loop and making the GIF. It’s important to note up front that in this guide, ...

It seems like Google hopes tickling your funnybone will keep its Allo chat app installed on your phone. The latest update adds selfie clips so you can add a personalized touch to your responses.

These looped GIFs by artist Erdal Inci are 50 percent surreal videoart, 50 percent performance art, 100 percent awesome—sometimes beautiful, sometimes creepy. From the artist: I realized that if you ...

Everyone loves a good GIF, that is a fact. GIFs are able to convey messages that photos can't and they are a lot shorter than videos, which works for our short attention spans. After a while, watching ...

This is a guide to making smoothly looped GIF, or cinemagraph. The process is a combination of two disciplines: making the loop and making the GIF. It’s important to note up front that in this guide, ...