Our apologies to anyone who recently experienced downtime on the Electric Objects app! We've investigated and repaired the issue, and we will continue to support EOs into the future. Sincerely, the GIPHY Arts team

Quiz: can you name this art

The correct answer is “The Final Dinner” by Leonardo DiCaprio. Thanks everyone who played. x.com/electricobject…

GIPHY It's a bittersweet milestone — after four years, we have decided to shut down the Electric Objects hardware business.

GIPHY But while GIPHY will not sell any new Electric Objects hardware, they are committed to maintaining the EO App for existing customers.

GIPHY tl;dr — the customer experience will remain the same, except GIPHY is making Art Club free! FAQ here: electricobjects.com/faq

Basically a renaissance painting

TGIF

Fun Fact Friday: our name was inspired by Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

Among other names, we were almost called… Deco!

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In the end, this quote by Mark Weiser pulled it all together (read more about Mark here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weis…)

All this work is by pieratt who we were very lucky to work with in the early days.

EO was a frustratinnnggggg branding project. Spent 3 months trying to rename only to come back around and realize the original was great ¬_¬

Friends… today is the final day of the Original™ Electric Objects twitter account. What should we talk about.

Let’s see… 1. Make art 2. Support artists (especially women and people of color) 3. History is a lie written by the victors What else.