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

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.

oh, no problem! yeah, weinventyou was hosted on tumblr. that was fun for a while but became a nightmare. i followed everyone back and before long i could no longer use it with any practicality because the feed was a chaotic mess generating 100+ new posts to sift through every minute.

This is great stuff ZS! <3 Love the new website. It's very "artiste-y" ;) It indeed feels 'in control' to me: more a personal curation of your work than a bloggy, tumbler-y pile on.

Would've so been at yr exhibition if I could.

aw, thanks LBI! i'm going to try to do a decent job of documenting this on<e so i'll post a video in a few weeks. if the whole thing comes together in time, that is. it's coming down to the wire and i have left a ridiculous number of things undecided, and materials as of yet unpurchased. but glad to knock out the 'put up a new website' item because i needed to do it and it was distracting me.

can you please shop this picture of neil degrasse tyson

http://i.imgur.com/Ig3yTHh.jpg

so that he is holding this shirt

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/020/926/BORN_TO_DIE.jpg

here ya go

https://i.imgur.com/FnbBz2W.jpg

hahahahahahahaha

ty

lmao

https://i.imgur.com/6KZTmPr.gif

:D :D :D

beats me

https://i.imgur.com/Uhzjpl2.jpg

nighttime in the usa

I need the labels on https://www.wmata.com/schedules/maps/upload/2017-System-Map.pdf replaced with names from Key & Peele's East/West bowl

fyi, looks like WMATA map font is helvetica neue

https://i.imgur.com/TT82XMG.jpg

(view in new tab for full version)

god

Glorious.