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• March 8, 2013 154 notes
  The economy of the GIF

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  GIF via lulinternet/Tumblr
  

  Just two months before MTV’s Video Music Awards, the network was in a bind. A photographer scheduled to shoot One Direction to promote the big event had canceled due to passport issues. A call was placed to staffer Jimmy Repeat.

  “Get your shit,” recounted Repeat shortly after. “They agreed to do five minutes with us. Get on a plane.”

  Twelve hours later, Repeat was on a flight to London to meet One Direction. Only instead of a photo shoot, Repeat would create 60 GIF animations—moving portraits, seconds of footage looped ad infinitum. The resulting images of the the massively popular British-Irish boy band were candid and personal, a brief glimpse of life behind the scenes.

  

  Some of the GIFs made it onto MTV’s popular Tumblr blog, where they accumulated more than 135,000 notes.

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• July 9, 2012 611 notes
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  These girls have so many feels!

  If you haven’t yet seen the video that kicks off Storyboard’s week of One Direction coverage, check it out now. And come back daily for more, if you can deal!

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