Mind-blowing animated GIF

Mind-blowing. (via Imaginary Foundation)

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Is this what Xeni is talking about with her ‘chemo-brain’?
MollyMaguire

Is that Xeni?
- jimh
  
  My first thought! She does have a certain Xeni Jardin-ness (with an atom splitting headache) to her!
bcsizemo

My father always told me I had a hard head.
Rev. Benjamin

The trend of animated gifs appearing on boingboing pleases me.
mobobo

that sir is rather dem hexcellent
Anne Noise

I look forward to seeing this nine hundred times a day on Reddit.
- SamSam
  
  It has been doing so for a long time.
http://twitter.com/DaleGlass Dale Glass

http://i.imgur.com/UmpOi.gif
http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

This particular fascinator is why the security was so tight at the Kate n William nuptials.
http://www.barelyfitz.com/ BarelyFitz

Little Baby’s Ice Cream… makes your head explode.
xzzy

I just wanna know why a greyscale image has dithering.

Well, okay, it’s more like “vanillascale” but 256 shades of vanilla ought to be enough to get by without dithering.
- http://Valanx.org David Deutsch
  
  Not using dithering in higher resolution gifs is usually a great way to *ahem* explode the filesize. The image above is 1MB, which probably means that the undithered was a fair bit larger.
  
  I tested this to see whether I was right – converted it to RGB, blew up (again, apologies) the image to 300% with bilinear filtering, shrunk it down to its original size and saved it with undithered color indexing. Resulting filesize was 3MB. I would guess the actual original would have been around 4 to 5MB. Not horrible, but probably larger than a video of the same resolution. In any case – kind of ruining the snappy load time that makes gifs fun.
lavardera

Reminds me of the space mermaid that stalked Dr. Smith on Lost in Space. “Handsome pretty handsome Dr. Smith…”
http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog

All it needs is Condi Rice’s voice intoning, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
noah django

fuckin’ saved.
Lee Brown

I love the look of constipation on her face after the blast. Makes the whole GIF for me.
Daniel Neumann

Source: http://vimeo.com/41951380
- http://Valanx.org David Deutsch
  
  Dat Stereo.
- noah django
  
  lol she dances like Elaine Benes
Alex Schneider

Would have been more mind-blowing if they’d had her saying “vagina”.
LogrusZed

I’m slightly embarrassed to say that I stared at the static .gif image on the mainpage trying to have my mind blown before clicking in to the article.
- garyg2
  
  Me too…
  
  …though strangely it does seem to… breathe if you stare at it long enough……….
- http://twitter.com/Luke1972 Luke
  
  Snap.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Vincent-Maldia/100001023048460 Vincent Maldia

could you replicate that without FX by blowing up some gunpowder on a steel plate?