Author: Nick Kempinski

  • Social Sound

    Social Sound: the sound series from Soundcloud

  • Dramatic Yelp Reviews.

    Dramatic readings of Yelp Reviews.

    (via laughingsquid)

  • Re: Brief

    What happens when you focus on the “why” and the root of a message. Who knows where it can go. Amazing!

  • The history of GIFs

    thedailyfeed:

    Look! It’s the history of GIFs! But first, about how you’re saying it wrong:

    The issue of pronunciation – Before we get too existential about GIFs, we should probably learn how to pronounce their name. According to GIF lore, the programmers who created the GIF pronounced the acronym with a soft G, like a J. Yes, just like the peanut butter. However, according to Ficklin, the original GIF namers probably chose their counterintuitive pronunciation solely to “feed their contrarian nature. It’s a loner syndrome,” Ficklin said. He admits to having chosen the hard-G pronunciation for the same reason.