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The United Nations Development Programme Fights Ebola With GIFs

by Corinna Kirsch on December 2, 2014
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People like GIFs. People don’t want Ebola.

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Make a $10,000 GIF for Giphy

by Whitney Kimball on October 22, 2014
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“See money raining down on me” from http://imgarcade.com

“GIF of the Day” fans, artists, readers: a gift to you. Giphy is holding a $10,000 contest to make a digital sticker. The sticker doesn’t even have to be animated, and it can just be something you made that’s lying around from years past. By sticker, I’m pretty sure they just mean an animated GIF or a picture. It will not stick to things. This is likely the largest sum of money any individual will stand to make off a GIF in 2014.

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Saatchi Art and Google+ Launched A Stupid Contest for Stupid Software

by Paddy Johnson on April 15, 2014
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First hair GIFs cinemagraphs took the web by storm in 2010. Now “motion photography” is creating new opportunities for makers. According to a press release from the folks at Saatchi Art, Saatchi Gallery and Google+ pimping their “Motion Photography Prize”, “motion photography”, or, “.GIFs”. is an exploding new field. This is news because Google + has added an “auto awesome” feature to their image uploader, which includes a GIFmaker.

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Happy Thanksgiving GIFs from Rollin Leonard: Part 1 of 3

by The AFC Staff on November 22, 2012
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We’re taking the day off to enjoy Thanksgiving, but we wanted to leave readers with a special art gift, so we asked Rollin Leonard to put together a few holiday gifs for us. We’ll be posting those throughout the day.

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