Weekly Filet #120: Less LOL, More WOW. And more.
This week's top recommendation
Welcome to the wonderful world of cinemagraphs: still images with some minimal movement added to them, gifs where most of the frame is frozen, whichever way you'd like to put it. Cinemagraphs lift gifs out of the trashy LOLiverse into a more artistic form that is in fact closer to photography than video. Cinemagraphs.com has some fascinating examples from the New York Fashion Week, Buzzfeed has a more diverse collection. More sure to have a look at both.
→ New York Fashion Week (Cinemagraphs.com)
→ The 60 Most Beautiful Cinemagraph GIFs (Buzzfeeds)
Further recommendations
I bet that you're using Google for quite a number of searches that Wolfram Alpha does a much better job at. This list is a very helpful introduction to what Wolfram Alpha is capable of.
→ 32 Tricks You Can Do With Wolfram Alpha (Business Insider)
Jeff Baumann lost both legs in the Boston Marathon bombing and was in what has probably the iconic image of the tragedy. The NYT has produced a very emotional profile, both in text and video.
→ Beyond the Finish Line (New York Times)
Thought-provoking: Why it's misleading to take free elections as a measure for democracy.
→ The Harming Power Of Elections (ottomansandzionists.com)
They are doing one of the most important jobs in the world and are paid $70 per article to risk their lives: A freelance journalist reporting from Syria tells her story.
→ Woman’s work (Columbia Journalism Review)