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Happy 18th Bunkarina!
The .Gif Friday Post No.235 – 3 Polaroid LOLS & The First .GIF
16 June was the 25th Birthday of GIFs, according to Fast Company. We missed it, but we’re going to make up for the oversight.
“Choosy programmers choose GIF,” quipped Steve Wilhite of CompuServe, after he created the GIF image compression file format in 1987. It allowed for sequenced upload delays necessary for embedded animations. There’s a nice history of the now ubiquitous .gif on Daily Dot.
Animations above via Cari Vander Yacht. Tip o’ the tarboosh to OddMan for the GIF Birthday link, and here’s the Tacky Raccoons GIF Archive that includes Bunk’s Originals.
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UPDATE: In the interview with Daily Dot (linked above) Steve Wilhite said that he thought the first .GIF animation was of an airplane. This is one of the first that I ever captured, several computers ago:
Here it is, all blowed up, in 5 frames of pixellated glory:
Is this the first .gif animation Wilhite was referring to? I don’t know, but it’s a contender.
[Update 2: Fixed broken link to Daily Dot.]
How Hot Was It?
[Found here.]
At The Market
I’d like to try a little bit of everything, just don’t tell me what it is.
[Found here. Click on the image for full sized glory.]
Look. There.
FAMOUS CRYSTAL CAVE
Pennsylvania
Ice Cream Cone FormationThis great Natural Underground wonder, discovered 1871, is located a short distance off U.S. 222 bertween Allentown and Reading or via U.S. 22. Visited by thousands of persons annually. Trained Guides, Beautiful illuminations. Picnic Park.
Visited by thousands. [Found here.]
Undulatus Asperatus – Holy Crap Clouds
No new cloud type has been officially classified since 1951 but Gavin Pretor-Pinney who runs the Cloud Appreciation Society believes that there is a new cloud that deserves international recognition. He calls it asperatus, which means rough in Latin. [via]
Top: Schiehallion, Scotland.
Middle: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US.
Bottom: Hanmer Springs, South Island, New Zealand. [Previously posted here.]
Apparently the unusual cloud formation is benign, not related to precipitation, violent weather or mass extinctions.
LaserCat Charging Station
[Found in here.]
Lightsaber – Beta Version
[Found in here.]
Saturday Matinee – Sugar Pie DeSanto, Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon & Clifton James
Here’s Sugar Pie DeSanto‘s version of Jimmy Reed‘s 1955 hit “Baby What You Want Me To Do,” backed by Hubert Sumlin/Guitar, Sunnyland Slim/Piano, Willie Dixon/Bass & Clifton James/Drums (1964).
Here’s some more: Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim and Willie Dixon, with “Come On Home Baby.” (1964)
The Chicago Blues Allstars (undated) featuring Willie Dixon/Bass, Lafeyete Leake/Piano, Lee Jackson/Guitar, Clifton James/Drums.
Got it? Good. Have a great weekend, folks.
The .Gif Friday Post No.234 – How To Walk & Victorian Cheesecake
Top .gif is actually three .gifs (1-2-3-2-1), modified and animated from this image. Bottom two lenticulations were created from a couple of Victorian era stereoscopic photos that I lifted from here.
[Update: I found the link to the Victorian bimbo pics at Gimcrack. Sorry for the oversight, nursem.]
Tacky Raccoons 