The art of mint tea

 

“Le thé à la menthe doit être amer comme la vie, mousseux comme l’amour et sucré comme la mort.”
Proverbe marocain

“Mint tea must be bitter as life, sparkling as love and sweet as death.”
Moroccan proverb

Credits: Noura Ben Mussaed and Tumblr via Fidjie Fidjie, Gifs Animés: art ,humour,animaux… and Google+

#30YearsofGIFs – 8

 

In the earliest days of the net, GIFs and JPGs for different aspects of this brave new world often made reference to pre-existing technologies and objects. For example, the above GIF shows two letterboxes for email, a virtual reinterpretation of the traditional door flap for letters and parcels. This analogy helped people be more comfortable with the new technology by relating it to things they were already familiar with IRL.

Credits: Vijay Shah, Blingee