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Photo: Entry
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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Stalagmite Light
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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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Photos: Memory Forms and Further Forms
The following are two sets of self portraits I took while on San Juan Island last month. This was the first time I created a low-budget photography studio, and the first time I ritualized photography concerning the physical human body as the main theme/subject. As explored below in Memory forms, movement accompanied each of the forms (or poses) that I created and worked through. The forms themselves remain secret, a language that was used to inform the project but not define the output to the external viewers.
In the second sequence, Further Forms, I have created various forms of amalgamations of the Memory Forms, using some fairly basic blending techniques. The resulting abstract forms were the result of an inquiry on the forms within photography’s editing process.
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Memory Forms Preview
I have taken some time to work with a new camera setup at the Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs. A new project has emerged: Memory Forms. Here is a preview image from the experience:
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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.