Gif: "Cinemagraphs!?! Since when!!"

I literally had no idea these had a name and were recognized as their own art form. I made a series of 8 “endless moving images” in 2009 for my senior project at the art school where I received my BFA in photography. I filled a room with 8 monitors mounted on the walls and each screen played one of my (what know can call) cimemagraphs. I think most of the people didn’t really get what I was making, as it was pretty obscure at the time, and I came up with the idea to shoot “endless moving photos” without having seen one before. The conclusion We came to after my critique was they were an interesting way the combine photo and video, but there was no real way to sell them. Now holy shit it’s like a real thing 10 years later.What do you guys use to make you’re videos? I remember painstaking working on Final Cut Pro for like days straight and reversing clips, playing them forward, then reversing different clips and different clips forward to create a pretty intricate looping pattern instead of Just forwards-backwards-forwards like boomerang. And how can you keep them looping once online? I could never keep the loop for more than a minute or two on my website bc of file size... and I guess I figured people would should have “gotten it” before the two minute mark. Not so in my experience.. but this was before Instagram, iPhones, ect..Expect a whole dump of cinemagraphs soon! It’s like omg I found my people, haha via /r/Cinemagraphs https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/comments/dqvixd/cinemagraphs_since_when/?utm_source=ifttt