The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 Competition Winners

By Queuebot in Blogs & Internet, Pictures on Jun 6, 2009 at 1:17 pm

It may have taken some time to decide them, but the last votes have been cast and the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2008 has been chosen.  This extraordinary set of images certainly puts to rest the notion that the best pictures on the internet are always copyrighted by their owners.


Photo credit: T. Nathan Mundhenk (personal website)

4chan has animated gifs of a certain kind but the ones on Wikimedia are of a completely different ilk aka education. This amazing gif shows the transformation of the cicada from its pupa to the adult form. Although the whole process took over two hours there is a gap in the middle of about thirty minutes while the cicada took a rest from the strenuous activity of becoming an adult. Other than that gap the shots are at intervals of thirty seconds and this builds up beautifully in to a record of one insect’s emergence.

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  1. O
    Jun 6th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    A pretty obscure contest – 74 votes for the winning image?

    Might as well ask a random forum to choose their favourite picture. Anime girl? Wtf.

    That aside, the cicada gif is pretty awesome.

  2. Ali S.
    Jun 6th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    I never thought I’d see the day 4chan would be mentioned on Neatorama.

  3. Lauren
    Jun 6th, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Ahhhhhh!! You should warn people when something creepy is going to be the first thing I see on Neatorama. *jibblie*

  5. MightyCow
    Jun 6th, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    WTF is that thing doing on someone’s paper towels?!

  6. Gambit
    Jun 6th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    ok, that was officially disturbing (LOL)

  7. Video Game Dork
    Jun 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    GHA!

  8. Miss Curly
    Jun 7th, 2009 at 9:14 am

    I thought it was totally awesome!

  9. redphone
    Jun 7th, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    I will be so glad when I couple more posts go up so that this isn’t the first thing I see when I come to the site. *blag* ;-)

  10. Lauren
    Jun 7th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    Redphone, I think ‘blag’ is my new favorite word.

  11. narad
    Jun 7th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    Just wanted to complain that this crashes my browser basically everytime I try to leave neatorama. Looping images..not cool (I’m on epiphany btw).

  12. Vonskippy
    Jun 7th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    @narad – luckily any real browser handles them just fine.

  13. Carl
    Jun 7th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    “4chan has animated gifs of a certain kind but the ones on Wikimedia are of a completely different ilk aka education.”

    What a ridiculously poorly written description. What does any of this have to do with the cesspit that is 4chan? Also, the punctuation is pathetically lacking. Finally, does the person who wrote that sentence even know that “aka” means?

    I find it hard to take this remotely seriously.

  14. BadBubby
    Jun 7th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    4chan? My kids like animated gif’s. Nice to know I can find a site full of them to keep them busy.

  15. iwan
    Jun 10th, 2009 at 10:58 am

    a bug makes everyone happy. thats good !


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