Slavenka & Obi

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Duffy is a good dog. He just can't catch a ball to save his life. But he's not giving up.
Duffy's trials are wonderful as they are, but shown in slow motion and edited as an epic tale set to the tune of "Nessun Dorma," it is a thing of beauty.

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Saturday, June 3, 2017

A Brief History of the GIF

Developer Steve Wilhite and his team at tech giant CompuServe had a problem to solve: how to make a computer display an image while also saving memory. It was 1987, four years before the advent of the World Wide Web, when users who wanted to access email or transfer files did so with hourly subscriptions from companies like CompuServe. Then as now, the issue was space.
How could a color image file be shared without taking up too much of the computer’s memory?
Wilhite found a way to do so using a compression algorithm (more on this soon) combined with image parameters like the number of available colors (256). His new creation could be used for exchange images between computers, and he called it Graphics Interchange Format.
The GIF was born.
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ComboPhotos

For years, Stephen McMennamy has created images that combine two photos into one playfully surreal scene.

Mosaic Portraits by Charis Tsevis

Connect the Dots

London-born, New York-based image maker Sharif Hamza collaborated with make up artist Georgina Graham and video artist Tony Oursler to create the photography project “Purple. Oursler”.

Mobstr

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Ant-Man Could Destroy Superman

Dr. Spiros Michalakis said Ant-Man can beat up Superman during an interview with Inverse.
Dr. Michalakis served as a consultant for the Marvel movie Ant-Man, helping the writers infuse some real physics into Ant-Man's abilities.
Ant-Man would be able to best Superman by sucking him into a black hole.
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Dutch man sleeps with The Night Watch

Stefan Kasper became the first person, apart from the odd security guard, to spend a night alone with Rembrandt's masterpiece at Amsterdam's world famous Rijksmuseum this week.
And all Mr Kasper had to do to win the amazing prize was be the 10 millionth visitor to the museum since its reopening in 2013. He described the experience as "magic".
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a dramatic announcement from the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Donald J. Trump pronounced the planet Earth a “loser” and vowed to make a better deal with a new planet. “Earth is a terrible, very bad planet,” he told the White House press corps. “It’s maybe the worst planet in the solar system, and it’s far from the biggest.” Trump blasted former President Barack Obama for signing deals that committed the United States to remain on the planet Earth indefinitely. “Obama is almost as big a loser as Earth,” Trump said. “If Obama was a planet, guess what planet he’d be? That’s right: Earth.” When asked which planet he would make a new deal with, Trump offered few specifics, saying only, “The solar system has millions of terrific planets, and they’re all better than Earth, which is a sick, failing loser.” Trump’s remarks drew a strong response from one of the United States’ nato allies, Germany’s Angela Merkel. “I strongly support Donald Trump leaving the planet Earth,” she said.

Andy Borowitz