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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Gifs — Gifs</title>
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<body>
<section
id="slide_container"
class='slides layout-regular'>
<article class="slide level-1" id="gifs">
<h1>Gifs</h1>
<p>A brief history and analysis</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/its_happening.gif" src="images/its_happening.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="potential-pronunciations">
<h2>Potential Pronunciations</h2>
<ul class="build simple">
<li>gif</li>
<li>gif</li>
<li>gif</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="what-even-is-a-gif">
<h2>What even is a gif?</h2>
<p>Warning: jargon ahead.</p>
<p>The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that
supports up to 8-bits per pixel (255 colors) per frame, as well
as animation.</p>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="a-brief-history-of-gifs-not-by-stephen-hawking">
<h2>A Brief History of Gifs (not by Stephen Hawking)</h2>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="images/stephen-hawking.gif"><img alt="images/stephen-hawking.gif" src="images/stephen-hawking.gif" style="width: 50%;" /></a>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">A company that you have never heard of introduced the GIF format
in 1987 to make it so that you could download an image in color.
Yes, what you're thinking is right: before 1987, you couldn't download
a color image.</p>
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="what-makes-a-gif-funny">
<h2>What makes a gif funny?</h2>
<p>There are a few aspects to gifs that specifically make them funny.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Context</li>
<li>Types of humor</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="context">
<h2>Context</h2>
<p class="build">As with a lot of comedy, context is important in creating a
humorous space for the gif. This has created a whole new genre
of gifs called <a class="reference external" href="http://www.reactiongifs.com/">reaction gifs</a>,</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">which allow you to express your reaction to something over the
internet, when you're not face to face. Captions are also commonly
used to create the same effect.</p>
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="types-of-humor">
<h2>Types of Humor</h2>
<p class="build">Many of the primary genres of humore can be expressed in gifs,
including:</p>
<ul class="build simple">
<li>Dark or Morbid humor</li>
<li>Surreal humor</li>
<li>Parody</li>
<li>Irony</li>
<li>Blue</li>
<li>Slapstick</li>
<li>You get the point</li>
</ul>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="dark-or-morbid-black-humor">
<h2>Dark or Morbid (Black) Humor</h2>
<p class="build">Deals with disturbing subjects such as death, drugs, terrorism,
rape, war, and general sadness</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/dr_who_sad_rain.gif" src="images/dr_who_sad_rain.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="surreal-humor">
<h2>Surreal Humor</h2>
<p class="build">A form of humor based on bizarre juxtapositions, absurd situations, and nonsense logic</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="images/dancebaby.gif"><img alt="images/dancebaby.gif" src="images/dancebaby.gif" style="width: 20%;" /></a>
</div>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="images/nopetapus.gif"><img alt="images/nopetapus.gif" src="images/nopetapus.gif" style="width: 40%;" /></a>
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="parody">
<h2>Parody</h2>
<p class="build">Comic imitation often intended to ridicule an author, an artistic endeavor, or a genre.</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/ariel.gif" src="images/ariel.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="ironic-humor">
<h2>Ironic Humor</h2>
<p class="build">An event in which what appears, on the surface,
to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/be_cool.gif" src="images/be_cool.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="blue-humor">
<h2>Blue Humor</h2>
<p class="build">Also called off-color, or risque (from the French word for
“to risk”); relies on impropriety or indecency for comic effect</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/johnny-bravo.gif" src="images/johnny-bravo.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="physical-comedy">
<h2>Physical Comedy</h2>
<p class="build">Somewhat similar to slapstick, this form uses physical
movement and gestures; often influenced by clowning</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="images/fall.gif"><img alt="images/fall.gif" src="images/fall.gif" style="height: 170px;" /></a>
</div>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="images/party_hard.gif"><img alt="images/party_hard.gif" src="images/party_hard.gif" style="height: 170px;" /></a>
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="cute-humor">
<h2>Cute Humor</h2>
<p class="build">A thing that makes you smile because it's so cute.</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/puppy_dig_bed.gif" src="images/puppy_dig_bed.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="deadpan">
<h2>Deadpan</h2>
<p class="build">Delivered with an impassive, expressionless, matter-of-fact presentation.</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/hmm_yes_quite.gif" src="images/hmm_yes_quite.gif" />
</div>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="images/wtf_cat.gif"><img alt="images/wtf_cat.gif" src="images/wtf_cat.gif" style="height: 200px;" /></a>
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="hyperbolic-humor">
<h2>Hyperbolic humor</h2>
<p class="build">Comic presentation marked by extravagant exaggeration and
outsized characterization.</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/terrified.gif" src="images/terrified.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="word-play-and-wit">
<h2>Word play and Wit</h2>
<p class="build">More intellectual forms based on clever, often subtle
manipulation of language (though puns can be crude and farcical)</p>
<div class="build figure align-center">
<img alt="images/huemanatee.gif" src="images/huemanatee.gif" />
</div>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="conclusion">
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Gifs are a great way of expressing emotion, and have been mangled
by the internet into a sometimes-funny-but-mostly-hopeless thing.
Just like your mom.</p>
</article>
<article class="slide level-2" id="sources">
<h2>Sources</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://gifs.elijahcaine.me">gifs.elijahcaine.me</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://www.dailywritingtips.com/20-types-and-forms-of-humor/">http://www.dailywritingtips.com/20-types-and-forms-of-humor/</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="http://giphy.com">giphy</a></li>
</ul>
</article>
<article class="slide level-1" id="thank-you">
<h1>Thank you</h1>
</article>
</section>
<section id="slide_notes">
</section>
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