http://diply.com …hs-brings-them-back/52044
If I'm overgeneralizing, it seems like kids these days don't care much for history. Unless they're in video games, comic books, or any other popular media, history isn't going to get much face-time with today's youth. Luckily, there's art director and designer Kevin Weir to save the day.
Weir uses historical black and white photographs from the forgotten past and gives them a second life with his quirky, and sometimes disturbing, animated gifs. He scours the Library of Congress online archive for images of "unknowable places and persons," which act like blank canvases, and gives them a bit of personality. So while he's not exactly giving us a history lesson, he's giving us a creepy, slightly altered version of our past that at least remind us of life pre-Internet. And that counts.
