Despite their limitations, animated GIFs are enjoying something of a renaissance lately, as people use the format to create humorous Internet memes or low-resolution video clips of events.
630 Greenwich Street, West Village Through Oct. 11 Olav Westphalen's projects usually create humorous incongruities by holding art to the same standards (or lack thereof) as sports, politics and popular entertainment.
Ms. Bannister also created humorous captions for her most animated subjects and compiled the captioned photographs into themed booklets.
It would be hard to imagine a more dramatic wallop than the combination of this historical and geographical perspective, and the roof performers wisely didn't compete; instead they created humorous pieces.
A prolific dance-maker who has created humorous solos for Mikhail Baryshnikov and opera-size extravaganzas for New York City Ballet, he turned to five virtuoso male dancers to fill the gap.
C1 Everyday Humor In an effort to compete with the shift to online communications, the greeting card makers American Greetings and Hallmark Cards are appealing to their biggest clients -- women -- by creating humorous takes on everyday travails.
TBS, the cable channel that bills itself as the home of "very funny" programming, is teaming with the actors Will Arnett and Jason Bateman and DumbDumb, their company that creates humorous Web video clips for brands like Denny's, Old Navy and Orbit gum.
In addition to the vans, the agency behind the campaign to publicize "Back to You," A.D.D. Marketing and Advertising in Los Angeles, will put up a Web site that creates humorous images of users as news anchors, seated at a desk between Ms. Heaton and Mr. Grammer.
Sebald goes on to ask, "How is one to understand an author who was so beset by shadows … who created humorous sketches from pure despair, who almost always wrote the same thing and yet never repeated himself, whose prose has the tendency to dissolve upon reading, so that only a few hours later one can barely remember the ephemeral figures, events and things of which it spoke".
The artist is known for creating humorous fusions between first and third worlds.
Performing this year on Tuesday, July 5, in front of a sold-out audience at the Reynolds Club's Frances X . Kinahan Third Floor Theater nine students riffed off headlines from that day's Chicago Tribune, creating humorous skits in the same vein as The Compass actors did 50 years before.
