Tag Archives | gifs
Sochi construction timelapse
At a cost of $50 billion and counting, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will be the most expensive in history. Here’s a timelapse view of the resort town as it’s been built up for the Games.
Here’s an exploding watermelon in super slow-motion
In case you aren’t familiar with them, the Slow Mo Guys basically do exactly what you’d think. They record stuff in super slow-motion, usually while it’s exploding, and upload their incredible footage to YouTube.
How to unload a cargo ship in 5 seconds
No, this cargo ship in British Columbia isn’t releasing its paylod to stop from sinking. The Seaspan Harvester is supposed to do that, unloading timber by tilting 30 degrees to the side and just dumping dozens of logs into in the water. And here’s the GIF: [via Reddit]
Three GIFs of Ezra Levant ‘dancing’ that will haunt your nightmares
“Ezra does the Harlem Shake” is all the info Sun News Network provided when they uploaded a short clip of their biggest star, Ezra Levant, doing… something that resembles dance.
Here’s a weird Craigslist ad seeking women for Star Trek role-playing: ‘No nudity, no touching’
Someone in Edmonton is pretty desperate to do some Star Trek role-playing, but he’s a few women shy of a full crew. Posted a few days ago in the “strictly platonic” section, the ad promises lunch and possibly prescription drugs.
The history of the GIF told in — what else? — a series of GIFs
The Graphics Interchange Format has been around since the late ’80s and, for a while, rendered entire swaths of the internet unnavigable (MySpace, Angelfire, et al.) but the GIF is making a comeback.
Is OMFGDogs the new Nyan Cat?
Behold: your latest obsession. Artist Paul Robertson designed this gif of a pack of adorable dogs running over a rainbow background about a year ago and posted it on his Tumblr. Now someone has added some music and possibly created the heir to Nyan Cat.