Remember how animated gifs are the bane of the internet-verse? 

I'll admit though, I've created one or two in my day.  Here's my little guy, back when he was a wee babe with his big ol' Charlie Brown head:

But these people, photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg have taken this early 90's web 1.0 abomination and have transformed it into something exquisitely beautiful.  They started out creating their "cinemagraphs" while covering Fashion Week in NYC.  In their words, according to fastcodesign.com, they "wanted to tell more of a story than a single still frame photograph but didn't want the high maintenance aspect of a video." Their cinemagraphs, which can take hours to make, are described by them as "something more than a photo but less than a video."

They are stunning.  Absolutely stunning.  They have collected a number of them on their tumblr blog.  I hope they continue to add more.  In case  you don't feel like clicking on the link, maybe a sample from their tumblr will entice you: