So let’s shake things up a little bit. Let’s get weird in this GIF party. And in keeping with the end-of-the-year trend that’s been running on io9 lately, I ask you this: What’s the ...

Or are they? A new project is trying to liberate GIFs from the digital world with the help of one old, weird, 20th-century technology. The thaumatrope, a disk with two images on both sides ...

Armed with a camera and a sense of humor, Laurent made mesmerizing GIFs of friends. Two years later, he's still at it—and now he's getting paid for them. The photographer's GIFs provided a break ...