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

living room (walk) is GREAT

thanks m bison, very nice to hear that! i spent all weekend working on something in the same general area, finishing it up now

here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbne9dNW1QI&

no one has 2 minutes, so here's the 1-second summary

https://i.imgur.com/c9zKisu.gif

Really cool tutorials on creating algorithmic gifs: https://necessarydisorder.wordpress.com/

Example:
https://necessarydisorder.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/agif5.gif?w=500&zoom=2

poor Michael McKean, trapped in your NixonTrump GIF!

it's actually Reagan, not Trump, although I definitely see the resemblance at various point. i liked this transformation the most, even though i didn't actually use it in the video or GIF:

https://i.imgur.com/7HARJjf.gif

xp i'm really interested in using Processing with GIFs, but in a sort of different way. a long time ago i did a workshop on Arduiono/Processing and made a little device that adjusted the framerate of the GIF with a slider. the idea back then was to then replace the slider with some sort of interactive sensor-based thing so that looping images would speed up or slow down based on what in the room did. but my arduino crapped out on me soon afterward, i forgot about Processing as i got distracted with whatever shit seemed important that day, and now i don't know how any of it worked. this is a pattern!

those tutorials are great though! i'm going to bookmark it for when i drift back into processing (i'm still focused on max/msp right now). i really liked these examples:

https://i.imgur.com/RmD7Xc1.gif
https://i.imgur.com/3WguuuU.gif
https://i.imgur.com/yoCpKUe.gif

Argh, Reagan, brain not on today

OMG Karl you need to get one of these. Should we do a GoFundMe?

https://lightform.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81ZXW1HO68

whoa, that looks so cool! first wave already sold out, alas. and it conspicuously doesn't mention the price anywhere on the website, but earlier promotional things said they hoped to ship it for under $1000, so...alas.

but honestly, i already have a piece of software (madmapper) which pretty much does the same thing (although it requires you to leave your laptop up and running beside the projector, which is annoying). my main problem hasn't been with not having the hardware/tech, it's been my lack of motivation. the last several months has been starting antidepressants and getting back into the working world, and that's been pretty much 95% of my waking life. but i've been relatively happier, too, so i'm not complaining too much. dunno - things have been weird

KM, have u been working for the NYT Mag??

no, i wish. has yet another namesake kicked my ass? i've already got the golden age film actor, his damned theater, the soccer player, and the 958th player selected over in the 2018 MLB draft (who i am rooting for)

ok just checking

https://i.imgur.com/H9QsaJY.gif
https://i.imgur.com/YaVUJrS.gif

let's see what other crap i can dredge up. it's thursday night

as the uncle turns again toward the liquor cabinet, feet scuttle toward the door at the first recognition of opportunity

this started from F for Fake, i think

https://i.imgur.com/1jcwyop.gif

this was from march 2018, apparently

https://i.imgur.com/IprVlzD.gif

secret stash

yeah yeah imgur but
https://imgur.com/gallery/m9p8T7m

and something else i think you'll dig:
https://safecrackers.com/

sweet links, thanks!

but no, the imgur one doesn't work because that's a video ;)

i have no room to talk because i don't make much of anything these days

https://i.imgur.com/SGmrI6O.mp4

A vermicious knid!

On a conf call right now and thinking SO HARD about conferencecall.biz

https://i.imgur.com/y8DuSQq.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/AjJDJtf.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6Z01VTv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/EpTg4P6.jpg

um

it's just a mockup for a sound idea but i thought it would be funny to convert it to webcomic form

i should have just posted this

https://i.imgur.com/eUX00zi.jpg

it's monday

is this loss?

Someone should replace Homer with you know who:
https://giphy.com/gifs/season-4-the-simpsons-4x22-3o6MbflyaR9HL90QSI

i have a template ready to go, but i'm sad to say i can't tell if this is supposed to be guy fieri or donald trump. what's insane is that i don't think i've ever seen guy fieri on television, and even though the thread comes up sometimes on ilx, i don't think i've read more than a handful of posts. i'm just always thinking about him, and his sushi

for now, you guessed it,

https://i.imgur.com/Pqjn5pU.gif

https://i.imgur.com/QYzyMnK.gif

conceptual innit

not really, just a loop of a projection with an overlay of the same

the real mystery is who i was supposed to put the simpsons gif on! leeee tell meeeeee

indeed, i like your projection work.

i'm assuming he meant trump.

https://i.imgur.com/AfHX7r9.gif

copyright leee

Our dear president, Guy Fieri!

I have a couple of lightforms at work that we haven't found a use for yet but I like to mess with from time to time. I wish I could donate one to you, Z.
They just came out with a new model that's built into the projector. Looks pretty f'n rad.

Yeah, those look really cool! It would be especially nice to not have to leave the clunky laptop attached.

seen (stolen?) in the wild

haha, it's just taken from a boingboing thing from yesterday: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/trump-sniffed-58-times-during.html

that GIF is now the standard boingboing image for trump being a psychotic asshole.

on boingboing, i mean. i emailed them about it last year and xeni responded, but i guess they forgot who made it again.

honestly it doesn't really matter. i got the original trump image from someone else's work and then modified it to my own ends. i didn't provide credit to the original photographer because there were a billion images of trump looking like a psychotic asshole and i just picked one. that's what boingboing is doing now. there are a billion modified images of trump looking like a psychotic asshole, and they just picked mine.

https://i.imgur.com/c5yBr6x.gif

i've been trying to learn how to paint. i am not very good at drawing and have a shaky hand and no idea how to mix colors together. i love it. my favorite thing about life, i think, is the very first stage of learning new things, when every time you come back you learn something fundamental, or you mess up in a spectacular but educational way. i used to like the beginning of this thread, back past 2010 now, yonder, an age from which every single digital image link on earth has now broken, because among the first few gifs were a few pixels of flat brown poop flying into tom cruise's chomping mouth. it was kind of south park level of animation, but i remember being exhilarated at what i had learned, that i had pulled it off so that the mouth would just keep on chompin' on that shit! forever! learning to paint has been fun in a similar way so far, sorta.

i'm using a beginners set of acrylics, and so far i've been using a little 9"x12" drawing pad thing. they curl up on the edges, and i had a complete debacle with them with the one i just finished. i think i will upgrade to a real canvas soon.

i'm up to four paintings now, although i think i've now abandoned the 3rd one. the first one is pretty bad, but if you got through that paragraph above then you know what i mean when i say it's my tom cruise eating shit painting, and i remember feeling really happy and positive about it when i finished it. the second, third, and fourth all went through a similar process: they started with a decent underpainting, then looked ok for a minute as i added on, and then i kept going way too long and made them worse (or ruined them completely). in chronological order with wiseass comments insults:

https://i.imgur.com/0rNoYFP.jpg
0amp
hey, i know what will be a good subject for a first attempt at acrylics - a really intricate pattern from the front of an amp! also, for the first and not the last time, i ruined a decent background at the last moment by tossing brown paint on it look like a shit-spattered toilet, for no reason.

https://i.imgur.com/2ImmCVz.jpg
1ref
we moved recently to an apartment with better lighting, and we've been using all of our disposable income (negative $45 a week) on plants. this one is a euphorbia, which is kind of like saying "this one is a plant". not very descriptive. some experts would say it has "cactus-like features"

https://i.imgur.com/FZ9U2QM.jpg
1underpainting
this is the first time i made an underpainting and then sketched an outline on top of that. on the amp one, i sketched something out in pencil and then did the underpainting, which completely covered up the sketch. learning from the past for the first time in several months, this time around i did the underpainting and THEN sketched something out. hey man, gotta put your socks on before your pants, or whatever.

https://i.imgur.com/wLu4Ig0.jpg
1shouldhavestoppedhere
i like the colors on this one, despite them not at all resembling the colors i was intending to make on my palette. i remain catastrophically inept at mixing colors. anyway, i lucked out with some good accidental colors on this one. but then i was unhappy the little black dots near the wall corner so i kept going

https://i.imgur.com/BRGnDhC.jpg
1toodone
i feel like the black spot in the corner is the equivalent of the bad tattoo that gets converted into a solid filled geometric shape.