We all love the quirky gif files don’t we? From short clips to perfectly looped ones, the GIF is one of the most popular image file format on the internet today. And while users across the globe compete to make that perfectly looped GIF that give you a hard time deciphering, Finnish artists Juha van Ingen and Janne Särkelä decided to do something entirely different.

They have created ‘As Long As Possible’, a GIF that is nothing but a black square that counts up from 1 to 48,140,288 at 10 minutes interval. With 48,140,288 frames to go through, the GIF will take 1000 years to finish the loop!

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And since it won’t be humanly possible to see the entire GIF for anybody alive, the ‘art work’ has currently been put on display at FISH Gallery in Helsinki. The display is nothing but frames out of the GIF, which incidentally weighs in at 12GBs.

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But that is not all. ‘AS Long As Possible’ will go on real time display in 2017, when the GIF file format completes 30 years. It is supposed to stay on display till 3017!

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