After posting so many gifs and stills, I thought I’d share an actual video. I’ve been working on this project for over two years (if you follow me, you may have noticed), creating kaleidascopic videos as an exploration into the sublime nature of symmetry, and to discover unique patterns and rhythms.
The goal has always been to create a short film from the best material generated, but to be honest, it’s more satisfying to tinker around and iterate new comps than it is to edit it down into a polished short. Every time I get the desire to finish it up, I get sucked back by the hypnotic allure of novel possibilities.
I’m hoping to round the corner this year, as soon as I can upgrade my hardware and decide on a workflow… as it stands, a full render for each comp takes anywhere from 1-8 hours and comes out 3-15GB in size (and by now, I’ve got well over two hours worth of comps — this video is just a drop in the bucket). One of these days I’ll have the hardware and discipline to finish this beast of an experiment.
Anyways, please enjoy in fullscreen on HD, with your own soundtrack. It’s best that way.
I spent the last two weeks of 2011 compositing and editing this New Year’s video for Paulette Magazine in collaboration with papercraft genius Chloé Fleury. I don’t speak French, but thankfully that wasn’t necessary.
I’m pretty pleased with the way it came out, hope you enjoy it. Bonne Anneé!
Happy New Year!
Mistakes are almost always worth a second look.
(Source: ultravisceral)
Astrophysicists Produce First Realistic Simulation of Milky Way’s Formation
Astrophysicists have been trying for nearly two decades to produce a model capable of simulating the genesis of a spiral galaxy — the class of flat, rotating disk galaxies to which our own Milky Way belongs. And now, they’ve finally done it.
What.
We’ve reached 5% of our Kickstarter goal for Lesbians of Long Island, the soon-to-be short documentary of decade.
Johanna Fateman of Le Tigre thinks so. Hurry up and get on the fuckin’ bandwagon why don’t ya? Thirty-six days to go.
:D
(Thanks for following me.)
I decided to make a short animation for my song. Enjoy :)
Godel’s world-dazzling, Russel-crushing, Hilbert-toppling vision of 1931 has become such a commonplace in our downloading, upgrading, gigabyte culture that although we are all swimming in it all the time, hardly anyone is in the least aware of it. Just about the only trace of the original insight that remains visible, or rather, “audible”, around us is the very word “computer”. That term tips you off, if you bother to think about it, to the fact that underneath all the colorful pictures, seductive games, and lightning-fast web searches, there is nothing going on but integer arithmetic. What a hilarious joke!
Douglas Hofstadter, I Am A Strange Loop
