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How A 145-Year-Old Art Museum Stays Relevant In The Smartphone Age

How A 145-Year-Old Art Museum Stays Relevant In The Smartphone Age | For Art's Sake-1 | Scoop.it
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's redesigned website embraces a future in which we're all staring into our phones, even at the museum.

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155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope | Colossal

155 Years Before the First Animated Gif, Joseph Plateau Set Images in Motion with the Phenakistoscope | Colossal | For Art's Sake-1 | Scoop.it

Nearly 155 years before CompuServe debuted the first animated gif in 1987, Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau unveiled an invention called the Phenakistoscope, a device that is largely considered to be the first mechanism for true animation. The simple gadget relied on the persistence of vision principle to display the illusion of images in motion.

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An opinionated woman obsessed with objects, entertained by ephemera, intrigued by researching, fascinated by culture & addicted to writing. The wind says my name; doesn't put an @ in front of it, so maybe you don't notice. http://www.kitsch-slapped.com
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