Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

He got back to you after you sent a half-finished email. Deal is sealed imo :)

just saw this - this is awesome news!

in the meantime, can i request something from my new macro-terror?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9LJblkoo8

oh my god, that is intense. that article is really good, too. the exchange at the end of that

Q: and the vibration of that, would be?

love
forthnecity? (forth density?)
creation
creators
empowerment, ummm
not needing anything
lacklessness
confidence
freedom
joy
ecstasy
innovation
technology
...
intergalactic communication
meeting of civilizations

forthnecity? (forth density?)

update: lol, i can't believe i was hearing that as "forth" and not "fourth". after reading on in the the article, i see it's 4th density (out of 8), which happens to be the density jesus was on. good to know

whoa

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*ORPwEquVbANQBSfcrZ_Pvg.jpeg

dammit, almost every single image/video in that article is credited except for that one

You gotta make some synesthesia-inducing gifs!

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/4/16733778/noisy-gif-hearing-movement-auditory-neuroscience-synesthesia

i want to make one that induces the feeling you get when someone rolls up the bottom half of their shirt and drums on their belly just after dinner and everyone else wants to die - ratatatatatatatatatata!

gr8080 i meant to add, the guru stare video you posted reminds me of the last three minutes of this:

https://youtu.be/32iX5lbVDto?t=28m38s

<3

http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2017/06/01/detail/the-gif-elevator/

i just missed that by a few weeks, last time i was in queens! next time, i suppose.

http://78.media.tumblr.com/2084efa14274387f126103aa177233e4/tumblr_p0zmcdsmrV1qdmmiqo1_500.gif
http://78.media.tumblr.com/9f076be4b2461692138c78ef91454dd6/tumblr_p0zmcdsmrV1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

man, sorry for bringing this noisy issue up on multiple social platforms in a single day, but i have spent all day struggling with encoding/compression settings for a video. the GIFs above have a really low frame rate and quality - the actual video moves much faster and more crisply and i was excited to share it! i spent all night working on it.

but it turns out that while i can render a crisp, HD 1080p .mp4 that looks great on my computer, the same video looks like absolute garbage on instagram, twitter, and facebook. it even looks terrible on Vimeo, where I uploaded a 200 MB 1080p version.

https://i.imgur.com/D7pxHMQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/uwvjyUN.png

The top image is a screenshot of what the real video looks like when I play it off of my desktop. the second is a screenshot of how the same 1080p video looks on Vimeo at top quality playback. it's crazy! i'm thinking the issue is that the different platforms probably use some form of auto-noise reduction in their compressors, so even if you upload the highest quality noise it just makes it even easier for it to noise-reduce. but i have nooooo fucking clue what i'm talking about. if anyone else knows and could school me i'd really appreciate it.

anyway, i have learned my lesson, which is not to bother working with noise (possibly a psychologically healthy thing anyway)!

It seems like any sharing platform will fuck up your shit. Just upload your full rez MP4 somewhere and put it in a video tag on a web page and call it KarlTube.

lol it's not a bad idea!

tbh i think it would be a really neat thing to try to instead use the extreme noise footage in a VR setting. i have no idea how hard it would be to do, though, and it might make people barf

it would be a video compression issue, not a noise reduction thing. similar to your classic jpeg artifacting

tom scott is pretty cringey but this explanation may help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI

i actually didn't mind him at all, i thought it was a good video! i know compression is the culprit, but the degradation is especially bad with noise content. i understand that when there are practically zero pixels on the screen that stay the same from frame to frame (as with HQ noize), it makes the compressor go bonkers.

there's a similar situation with color gradients, i think. it's barely detectable to the human eye, but if you create a really fine gradient that barely changes hue from pixel to pixel, and then gradually change it to a different gradient over time, there's often some noticeable artificating that happens regardless of the bitrate quality. but where gradient compression is often a bit noticeable but tolerable, with noise it's just completely unwatchable (imo), like everything that's interesting about the noise just gets obliterated.

thanks again for sharing that, micah!

Flickr always go on about leaving your originals untouched but that might only be for viewing on-site and not embedding. Have you tried uploading it there?

http://78.media.tumblr.com/0b8606a058a6303f684b9b30d4892399/tumblr_p1shk2We5J1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

potion related lamb brain

that's awesome and hard to look at.

mmm. Fresh!

yeah, it's pretty gross! it's one element out of several others for a longer thing. i like how it kind of also looks like the form of a ostrich's head as well (with a beak on the lower right instead of the brainstem)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/sports/baseball/general-managers-texting.html
^ bidness opportunity imo

karl can you do something like this, but use https://i.imgur.com/6oCTR3s.jpg instead?

would be a good one to have for the 77 poll

ugh, i tried out the wave warp effect in premiere and it ended up looking like garbage

https://i.imgur.com/3OuZ5QS.gif

bravo!

lmao

does it tile?

alas, no. it has a slight perspective tilt to it, so the letters have a size mismatch on the edges

treasure trove here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/VintageCG/videos

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

dang 1974!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMFhcC4SvQ

dope

yeah, that's really neat! i like the music too

I feel like there's a lot of potential in the Chinese Woman Eating Cotton Candy clip making the rounds.

i haven't maaaade a gif in 26 yeaaarrrsss

but for real i've barely made anything recently. everything has been going into a sound installation which has to be done about a month from now whether it's ready or not

Niiiiiiice.

i killed off weinventyou.net in late January, which was really dumb. i had kind of a freakout and just hit delete. i didn't archive anything. about 2.5 days later i felt intense regret, but the good news is that it really motivated me to rethink my portfolio and how i'm presenting what i'm doing. and also, i had old .psd files of most of my GIFs on an external hard drive, albeit chaotically organized. anyway, i finally am ready to share my new website/home base:

www.zachscott.org

the 1000 or so gifs on weinventyou have been narrowed down to about 25, and i've dedicated space to the installation-based stuff i've really been focused on lately. please check it out if you get a moment!

---
also, for those of you around Chicago, i'm showing a sound installation at a pop-up exhibition on May 2 - please drop by to say hello! i'll probably be the guy in the corner, crying

Hooray!

Site rules Zach. Esp the hand GIFs.

and Electricity series, and the birds, and ...

thank you! and thanks for taking a look! it's very enjoyable to decouple my homepage from Tumblr/social media. it kind of sucks on one level because i had a decent online following on weinventyou (humblebrag, sorry), whereas the new website will be lucky to see 50 visitors a month. but it's also very nice to feel like i "own" it and can customize it as much as i want to. and very nice to not feel the subconscious pressure of making something that people "like" or "reblog". i know it's lame to admit that it was a consideration, but it's difficult not to let that influence what you're making. it feels very liberating to be away from that!

"Noise" is pretty trippy!

This is fantastic. I'm also relieved you preserved centaur.gif

yeah that was kind of a trippy day! here's an outtake from that one

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/zachscott.org/Assets/TheLivingRoom/2017-03-10++typing.gif

originally it was going to be a video with the action moving from the wall to the real living room to the objects and me, back and forth, but i never got going on it.

xpost thanks fetchboy! it would probably be pretty easy to do a centaurpart2.gif. i feel like i see that centaur in new photos every few weeks or so, it's very photogenic.

If you had a following from Wordpress could you revive it but post links to your site? or is that not allowed?

Hmmm, what do you mean by “revive”? Can you follow blogs on Wordpress? I guess it has a social layer, too, but I haven’t thought about it yet.

Sorry - misunderstood, thought weinventyou was hosted on Wordpress, my mistake.