Thanksgiving: Upside Down Turkeys? and Navy Cooks

According to a Navy chef in 1956, the best way to roast your turkey is upside down.

Not one housewife out of a hundred really knows how to roast that Thanksgiving turkey, so says the Navy! They always roast it upside down, with the breast sticking up. The right way to do it is to turn the bird over and keep the meaty breast and legs out of the drying heat at the top of the oven. That way the meat is more succulent and tender.

This film below depicts a Navy Chief Commissary man demonstrating the Navy way of preparing, roasting and carving a turkey. Slices of savory turkey served with a generous portion of stuffing and gravy is one of the finest and most popular dishes in the Navy."

Vintage 3D Stereoscopic Images From the 1800s and Early 1900s Turn to Stunning Gifs

19th-century Holmes stereoscope3D images have been around almost since before the invention of photography. The earliest known stereoscope was invented in 1838. These devices, like modern 3D, show a slightly different image to each eye. As with our perception of the actual world, our eyes see the separate images but our brains combine them into one scene with perceived depth.

While many archives of stereoscopic images exist, there are few ways to view them in a way that allows one to see the 3D effect. Vintage 3D, a Tumblr blog by art photographer Dan Florence, attempts to make this art form more accessible by transforming these still images into animated gifs which feature both offset views.

General Ulysses S. Grant’s horse, Cincinnati, in 1861. This was Grant’s favorite horse, and he rode Cincinnati to negotiate Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865, four years after this stereogram was taken.

Dancer in a chair, date unknown.

Deadening silkworms by steam in Antioch, Syria, 1913 (modern-day Antakya, Turkey)

Uintah Ute child and baby, 1874.

Workers in Hong Kong, China, 1896.

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Amazing Eadweard Muybridge's Motion Photographs in the 19th Century

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. Most famous for his iconic racehorse time lapse photographs, Eadweard Muybridge revolutionized early photography. These are some of his 19th century time lapse photographs put into motion.

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10 Incredible GIFs Show Aging Face Transformation

Aging is something unpredictable and there is no real way to know how it’s going to affect each face and what is going to be the ‘final result’. In this interesting project, a photographer photographed 10 elderly people to match a photo taken of them 50-60 years earlier. Check out the before/after in 10 GIFs below.

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Amazing Vintage Halloween GIFs

Halloween or Hallowe'en is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows (or All Saints) and the day initiating the triduum of Hallowmas, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers. Below is a collection of some of amazing vintage Halloween GIFs.

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50-Year-Old Photographs Get Transformed Into Goofy Animated GIFs

In the daytime Cari Vander Yacht works as a designer, but at night, she gets busy with experimental projects that would rightly make her an artist. She put together this amusing, surreal GIF photo-series which she aptly called, TGIMGIF (Thank God It’s Monday’s Graphics Interchange Format).

"At a certain point, one must justify their creepy acquisition of other people’s pasts," Vander Yacht told Co.Design. "Either you make up stories about how you’re related to the people in the pictures or you animate them."

Once she decided on a winsome tableau, the rest was easy: making scans, then animating them frame by frame on the computer. In doing so, she lends new visual interest to banal images that arguably shouldn’t have been saved in the first place. "I’d make piles of the ones I thought were funny or had a possibility of funny," Vander Yacht said, "and then I’d take them home and stare at them until they told me how they should be animated. This mostly manifested as me laughing goofily to myself staring at someone else’s photo."

Her solitary rule is to use only the elements already in the photo: "[They] didn’t really need anything else in them."

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