GIF Guide to Escapism

It’s 2012, the predicted date of our demise, and the state of the world is enough to have anyone believing the Mayans were right. Bon Iver is getting called “bonny bear” on Twitter, Tilda Swinton isn’t nominated for an Oscar and the upcoming US elections have (d)evolved into a battle over who cares less about human rights. Sloane Peterson’s visible daze in 1986′s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off says it all: this is the state of the world and we just have to live in it.

With the help of GIF creator and blogger Emma Ableson, we take a leaf out of our favorite daydreamers’ books and take comfort in the middle distance; the place we can gaze into and ignore everything else.