How to Create a Cinemagraph

Here at Recipe for Press, we're experimenting with new and exciting video and visual branding techniques. Are you? Cinemagraphs are similar to the gif in that they're used to animate a photograph. But cinemagraphs offer even more extended motion in contrast with the stillness of the rest of the image. This digital wizardry is accessible to the curious. Do you have any favorites?

Making Sense of Modern Media: the Gif (Graphics Interface Format)

By now, a lot of us have seen some form of the Gif (Graphics Interface Format, pronounced "Jiff"). One of my new favorites, #RealTalk from Your Editor, serves as my self-prescribed laugh therapy. Of course it's so good, it begs the question, who is behind this? Creative marketing or necessary catharsis? You decide.