Footage from October 2022. Created with Resolve and QGIFer.
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Strange Time: The Belfair GIFs
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Water source footage from Ellensburg (April 2022), New Orleans (May 2022), Lake Wenatchee (June 2022), and Heidelberg (July 2022).
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NOLA GIF 3X : WATER AND PLANT
Six GIFs from my recent stay at the San Juan Island Friday Harbor Labs’s Whiteley Center. Originally shot on a GoPro Hero 9, edited in Resolve, and processed into GIFs via ScreenToGIF. If these don’t load quickly for you, I recommend a brief meditation before returning to the page and the loaded GIFs.
Regarding the export process, I noticed that ScreenToGIF radically mutes the images’ contrast. This is something that I wasn’t expecting, as the original videos for the GIFs are quite substantially brighter, but the quality ends up looking like an Instagram filter, so I guess these cool waters are “cool” images as a result.
Who knows how this’ll look. If you have a fast internet connection, it might work out . . . fast.
San Juan Island Timelapse GIF 1
San Juan Island Timelapse GIF 1 BW
More forthcoming!
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New GIFs: Cenotes
I had the supreme joy of exploring a handful of cenotes in Quintana Roo, Mexico, last month. These GIFs are the result of some rough, rough footage pulled from a GoPro that was used both underwater and above, focusing on the textures of the pools’ floors and the stalactite-filled ceilings. Using some crude alteration methods in Davinci, I was able to quickly (and continued-roughly) get a Brakhage-esque result.
As with the waterwheel GIFs, these were created using Davinci and ScreenToGIF. Higher resolution versions available, though probably will keep off the web server for frugality.
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New GIFs: Fairbanks Waterwheel
From the discovery boat tour in Fairbanks, Alaska, with love. Recorded earlier this month.
These two GIFs captivated me before I even imagined their full form. In my continued odyssey through outsider video art, they were created using a new GIF app I just discovered: ScreenToGIF.
Original video was captured on a Sony A7C and the editing was done in Davinci Resolve, the app that forever will confound and surprise.
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Whiteley Center GIF Bundle Released!
Here at the Whiteley Center on San Juan Island, I have had time to focus on literary, audio, and video works.
I have completed what is definitely the final GIF sequence of the year, which I’ve labeled at the Whiteley Center GIF Bundle. Check it out on this page here.
I have just posted a large collection of large GIFs, created to round out the final days of the calendar year. This bundle, as I’m calling it, contains the aquatic and the natural, continued. It is a gentle extension of the most recent GIFs posted recently.
In the near future, I intend to create more abstract video works that will be shared in video form. This includes GIF images, but displayed in repetition. I hope that this method will make the works more accessible and retain their size and scope. This work will most likely commence in early 2021.
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A Gazillion GIFs 2
Another week, another processing night for all the GIFs in my night. As per the GIFs page, here’s the following additions to the family:
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A Gazillion GIFs 1
A new push on my end has resulted in a flurry of fun-filled GIF images. Still moving. Still defunct as a format. These are great time consumers, capable of creatively getting me into the body of the footage I record. This is the artful way that screams in joy and terror at once.
As per the GIFs page, here are the latest offerings:
I was able to churn these out quickly and enjoyably. I have a lot of footage with a new lens that will be posted soon, as well.
Stay liquid.
From Rialto Beach, with Love
A fun little/big GIF from the Seattle Waterfront (near the Aquarium) from December 2019. Download a larger version here.
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Fall 2019 Boulder River GIF
This GIF, based on footage taken at Boulder River in the Cascade Mountains, is a preface to the now-released Oceanic Triptych.
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New GIFs: Fan 3 and Fan 4
Recorded in Philadelphia.