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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GIF!!!!!

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Celebrating 25 years of the GIF with Richie Hull

It’s nearly every child’s dream to travel into space and explore the cosmos. Richie Hull, the art director for Australia’s Popular Science magazine, will never get that chance, but through his surreal GIF animations, the heavens don’t seem that far away.

“I’m hoping we get GIFs with sound soon. Ideally, (on Tumblr) they’d play muted until you mouse over them, then the sound would play. That would open up a whole new can of memes! Not to mention creative possibilities … give it a .jif extension and I’m sold!”

(via Acclaimed artists commemorate the 25-year anniversary of the GIF)