Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once — à la Twitter — but ...

A stick figure animation is an animation of a person or animal, drawn with lines, circles, and dots. It essentially depicts an action, movement, or story with a stick figure giving it a comical touch.

Some of these posters feel suspiciously alive, holding still only because they chose to. Look closely and you'll notice rhythm in the shapes, timing in the spacing, and a ghost of a loop behind the ...