zach's old animations and new visual art, updated every 25 to 60 days

bee/flowers is very early 90's dance/rave.

have you thought about making a 100-gif magnum opus where each gif is its own individual animation, but when placed in a specific order on a 10 x 10 grid so that they form a mega-gif?

I have! Not 100 (10x10) gifs, exactly, but I've wanted to do a really big one with dozens of different pieces that fit together. The problem has just been hosting. Tumblr can't handle animated images wider than 500 pixels, let alone a megasaur gif combo. And my old barrylutz space wouldn't accommodate it well, either. And of course on ILX it wouldn't work (I think on some stylesheets it might look ok but I'm not sure, and in any case most people wouldn't be using the correct stylesheet and it would look different on everyone's monitors, etc)

hm.. how's about the next 9 requests you get, try to configure it so that you can put them into a 3x3 brady-bunch style one?
you could do it as a table like:

<table>
<tr><td>1.gif</td><td>2.gif</td><td>3.gif</td></tr>
<tr><td>4.gif</td><td>5.gif</td><td>6.gif</td></tr>
<tr><td>7.gif</td><td>8.gif</td><td>9.gif</td></tr>
</table>

the proportions would be easy to do...the same number of frames would be a little difficult, maybe, but not impossible. But I think that even if animated gifs have the same number of frames (and timing of frames...you can set each frame to last as long as you want), that they'd still be out of sync with each other. I tried once to have a set of gifs that were coordinated with each other (I think I had something falling down through one frame and into the top of another), and found that the gifs start looping once they're done loading, instead of starting at the same exact moment, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, all of timing stuff is just a detail, but the main problem is where to put it. I could put it here on ILX, but I think the total width of all the images (say, three wide like you suggest) has to be less than a certain amount of pixels, or else it'll drop down the image to the next row? Like, for example, take this picture (350x420):

http://i52.tinypic.com/adjb5j.jpg

Here's 6 in a row, but I'm guessing it'll drop down into a new row on the 3rd or 4th image:

http://i52.tinypic.com/adjb5j.jpghttp://i52.tinypic.com/adjb5j.jpghttp://i52.tinypic.com/adjb5j.jpghttp://i52.tinypic.com/adjb5j.jpghttp://i52.tinypic.com/adjb5j.jpghttp://i52.tinypic.com/adjb5j.jpg

I see two rows of three, but I think (I'm not sure?) that on a different computer with a bigger screen, you might see 4 on the top row and 2 on the bottom, and on a computer with a smaller screen, you might see three rows of two.

is it possible to just make one big gif that is cut up into sections where each one is doing its own independent thing

sure, I think. actually, I'll try it miniature form in a second, to test it out.

first the uncut version

http://i56.tinypic.com/261kug0.gif

(please work)

http://i52.tinypic.com/10pr1j9.gif http://i52.tinypic.com/11ka0lh.gif http://i55.tinypic.com/30bgwtv.gif
http://i52.tinypic.com/xb0eh3.gif http://i56.tinypic.com/2aacztv.gif http://i56.tinypic.com/rcpw8z.gif
http://i55.tinypic.com/o01pfn.gif http://i51.tinypic.com/33l2zqg.gif http://i52.tinypic.com/f9v5v.gif

whoops, I forgot that 30 minutes earlier I wrote that the images start looping when they're individually done loading, instead of waiting for all of the images to load and start simultaneously. my memory is approximately 4.5 seconds long

It's working now!

:o

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbh63q5FHS1qdmmiqo1_400.gif

I'm thinking about doing a bunch of these tbh. Yesterday I picked up The City by Frans Masereel, which is a series of 100 woodcuts illustrating city life in Weimar Germany from 1925 (also available for free here: http://www.nebulous-cargo.com/masereel/woodcuts/city1.html).

totally fucking wonderful

Yeah, that one is amazing. Definitely do more!

the gif tesselation upthread actually works well despite being (or because?) out-of-sync

yeah, I probably will! I have a few other commitments to take care of first (ILX Compilation 4 cover and a mini-comic that'll hopefully be printed and published by Justine+Jordan's Chance Press in a month or two. but then I'm thinking it would be neat to do ALL 100 of them and just put them on a new website.

whoops, xpost

whoa, that's weird, the tessellation actually goes in and out of sync! I watched it for a minute and on one cycle everything was perfectly lined up...and then it went back out of sync. That's strange because the timing for each of the tiles is exactly the same - same amount of frames, same timing (.1 second) for each frame. huh.

doesn't it depend on the filesize (hence loadting times) of the individual gifs?

though of course that isn't consistent, so each f5 gives a different pattern!

They start looping once they're done loading, yep, which explains why they're not in sync at the beginning. But what's weird is that they're looping at different speeds! Like, if the upper-left tile starts half a second earlier than the upper-right tile, it should continue to be half a second ahead no matter how long you look at it (since the two tiles have the same amount of frames and I set the speed at the same rate for all 9 images)...but after a while, the upper-left tile will start to only be .3 seconds faster, than .2, .1, then identical, then .1 slower, .2 slower, etc.

I have probably just written the most boring post ever posted on the internet. *champion*

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd314/NiGHTS8888/slothshades-1.gif

the sync doesn't change once they're all loaded afaict....synched perfectly now actually (thanks to coolsloth)

it seemed to me there that it got in sync then fell out of it. You're the Steve Reich of gifs. Woaaaaah now it's on a crazy cycle moving across them. Well that's me sorted for my Saturday night entertainment.

You're an interesting guy zs

Every time I load the page they sync differently.

^me too. c'mon coolsloth, sync it up, we're counting on you

http://imgur.com/EpAXu.png

<3 u coolsloth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9f1zM7I8Z8

hahahahaha

hahahaha!!!

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbirx0fVIQ1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://i54.tinypic.com/or5rfk.gif
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lblfx0JLbd1qdmmiqo1_400.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbs4zmFAn71qdmmiqo1_500.gif

i am always so happy when i see this thread back in my bookmarks. Never fails to deliver, and this time is no exception. Especially love the creepy cats.

yay doug henning

uh, i don't mean to jinx myself but I think the cat picture may be blowing up on tumblr, to a mild degree? I just posted it a while back and now a bunch of teenagers are reblogging it back and forth. I know this shouldn't be exciting but my iphone is buzzing with every reblog and it's getting more and more frequent. WEIRD

ok, not "blowing up" but 60 or so reblogs, which is way more than the 0-2 that I usually get!

you're gonna roll snakeyes sooner or later dude

or box cars. or whatever the good thing is.

60 is pretty awesome.

I've learned that there's pretty much a fuckyeah blog for each United State.

I think this one is relatively more popular because a) I tagged it with "cats", and b) it's slightly creepy so it appeals to sad teenz. The next thing I do will be back to the 0 note bin

Hey, we can't all be threeframes.

there's a fuckyeahgifs tumblr that's very big, and you can submit gifs to it, but I don't really understand how to submit to it, tbh. usually I don't fail at the internet to that degree, but I get the feeling I'm not doing it right

well, I'm up to 92. gotta admit that it's not playing out the way I expected: I always thought that when a post got a bunch of activity out of nowhere, it also came attached with a bunch of new "followers". I figured all it took was one lucky post to get a big base of people following you, and after that it was pretty much like compound interest. But none of these 92 people who reblogged are following me (well, 1 brave soul did), so the next thing I do is back at square one. I feel like the guy who was really convinced by the ponzi scheme strategy and is JUST now figuring out it's a house of cards!

Love all of that last batch, but yeah, the cats are amazing.

129!

Love your stuff, thanks

260

this is weird

i mean, really fucking weird. this 14-year-old named TOGEPENIS reblogs it, and within a minute or two NINE people have reblogged it from him. Which means this kid is basically like the guy that Malcolm Gladwell ran into that inspired The Tipping Point. So now I have to follow 14-year-old TOGEPENIS to entice him to follow me, because if I can get him to follow me then it's like high % tipping point whenever he reblogs me.

delete internet, i am spooked