I saw Sara’s first gif attempt, then I saw CogDog’s Googlyify A GIF assignment for ds106, and I knew this was going to happen.
Sorry. Couldn’t be helped.

It has nothing to do with the Mothership Google, but Googley Eyes are useful for sock puppets. Via the Firehose of Links Known as Alec Courous, I found myself diverted

"Add googly eyes to a GIF" http://t.co/76z5EKhIoX

— Alec Couros (@courosa) November 18, 2013

I find Googlify is a sophisticated technological tool (free of “Big Data” and pivoted moocs) for adding this effect to an animated GIF

which you cannot enjoy since this is a snapshot.

But the site allows you to add this effect to any published animated GIF

I decided to give it a go with one I made of axe wielding Bryan Alexander when I visited him in May 2011

Loading the URL for this GIF in the Googlify site, and the site deconstructs the GIF into frames, each allowing you to add a googley eye and change its location, spacing, size, etc.

(click for the big googley)

and it re-renders as a new GIF:

Ain’t he googley eyed?

Why do this?

Because you can.

Again, seeing a GIF broken down into frames allows you better to understand how it generates animation (right?)

UPDATE November 19, 2013: This is now a ds106 assignment! Start doing googly eyed GIFs