Awesome Gif

It’s a debate that’s been raging since the first file was produced in CompuServe’s Graphical Interchange Format back in 1987. With the help of podcasters Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch, YouTube personality Tom Scott takes a couple of minutes to set us straight on the proper pronunciation of the popular “.GIF” file extension.

Artist François Beaurain traveled to Monrovia, Liberia and captured images of the people and place he saw. But he didn’t stop there. He turned his photographs into a wondrous series of looping animated GIFs, which are as mesmerizing as they are transportive.