Welcome to Moving the Still: A GIF Festival! We are looking for the best of the best in original animated GIFs, and we want you to submit your original creations. Enter for the chance to have your GIFs exhibited during Miami Art Week in December 2012 and participate in this awesome celebration of the GIF medium, curated by Paddle8 and powered by Tumblr, presented by smartwater.

Submissions will begin October 17th and remain open until November 7th on the Moving The Still blog, where we’ll be publishing submissions on a rolling basis.  

Paddle8 and Chief Council Member Johnny Misheff have gathered a Selection Council from across creative industries who will curate the GIFS for the Miami Art Week exhibition, including MIchael Stipe, Ryan Trecartin, RoseLee Goldberg, Rodarte, Nicola Formichetti, Richard Phillips, James Frey and Vindoodh Matadin & Inez van Lamsweerde. Check out GIFs from the Selection Council on Paddle8’s Exhibition Page. 

Submit for the chance to be included in this groundbreaking exhibition alongside works by the Selection Council and other GIF Contributors such as Nick Knight, Nicolas Fernandez, Adam Dugas, among others. We’re excited to see all the amazing GIF artwork out there. Join the fun!

LIVE GIFFING THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: THE FINAL CHAPTER

Turns out the election season actually does come to a close eventually, and the debates end even sooner — tonight in fact — and we’ll be covering the scene one more time in live-GIF form. We’re getting the band together for this farewell performance, so be sure to tune in for more hand-tooled GIF artistry on Gifwich. And of course we happily welcome your submissions of debate-themed animated GIFs.

Additionally, please continue to enjoy Tumblr’s official Election blog and the live blog from our friends at the Guardian. And in a special treat, we’re turning the tables and invading the offices of Livestream for the final live video-cast, which will include (slightly) more amazing antics besides footage of bloggers hunched over laptops. Do tune in tonight at 9pm Eastern, and let’s close this thing out in style.

TUMBLR LIVE-GIFS THE DEBATE: NOW ON LIVESTREAM

If our live-GIF coverage of tonight’s presidential debate isn’t enough for you, and you’re not afraid of getting incepted by an infinite meta-blog video loop, then rejoice! The frantic GIF-wizardry originating from Tumblr HQ and appearing in “real” “time” on Gifwich will itself be captured and broadcast via Livestream! Not sure what the next level is after that but I’m sure we’ll hear about it from someone — from the future.

Here’s 50 Years of Bowie Hairstyles in a Single GIF

Having breakfast with Tumblr’s Katherine Barna is just like being on Tumblr: Magazines everywhere. While scheming about the upcoming Shorty Awards Microblog of the Year on Tumblr and Best Overall Brand Presence on Tumblr (enter early), we realized we’re next door neighbors and quickly traded SoPo Hurricane Sandy survival stories.