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The Most Beautiful GIFs in (and of) Creation

Whether it’s fog lifting at a mountain’s edge or a butterfly flapping by, Olde Loohuis’s images take a snippet of a longer documentary and carve it down to a single loop. In the context of a film, any of these moments would have passed in an instant, too brief to stand on their own. But as GIFs, caught in a cycle of endless playback, they gain their independence.

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