The Calgary Sun · May 1, 2015
Tireless GIF creator making her mark on hockey world
Hockey GIF maker Stephanie Vail is a die-hard Boston Bruins fan. (Handout/Twitter)Of all the rooms in her house, the office is where Stephanie Vail feels most at home.
An iMac desktop computer, paired with a giant flatscreen monitor, is the room's centrepiece, the anchor of her New Hampshire work station.
Since April 15, when the puck dropped on the NHL playoffs, Vail has spent more than 30 hours staring at that giant monitor and two other smaller screens.
She mines the most shareable bits of TV broadcasts and converts them into GIF files -- short for Graphics Interchange Format but better explained as a video clip on loop -- which she posts to Twitter under the handle “@myregularface”.