"“There’s a conception that maps and vintage things are dusty and good for research and not much else,” says DPLA’s Kenny Whitebloom. GIF It Up seeks to bust open this once-dusty trove for greater visibility online. Whitebloom points to the vast archive available — with items ranging from artwork to patent paperwork to wartime news reel — as proof that these cultural heritage materials have a life off the shelves and on the Internet...
Many GIF-makers splice still images together — from different documents, different creators and different periods of history — to juxtapose old with new, high with low and sweet with surreal...
Artists are also welcome to add their own artistic elements to the archived material. Ting Sun of New Zealand mashed together a still of fungi cellsseparating in a petri dish with a small surprise of his own: two pop-up googly eyes."
These are great, scientists should get into it.
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