Screenshot/detail from large page of enlarged pixel animations by A. Bill Miller.
Miller is using Nullsleep's code to make browsers render pages accurately rather than mandatorily fuzzing them out.
Viewing Miller's ocean of pixels the right way inspires after a couple of years of browser (and Apple)-induced myopia. So this is what cyberspace looks like!
"New Shortcut" [mp3 removed -- some of this got incorporated into New Shortcut Medley, on Bandcamp]
MIDI drums and some FM percussion under live-synthesized dual leads.
One channel is an ADSR signal output used as a control voltage to sweep evenly down through a series of harmonized sine waves in a wavetable oscillator.
These sweeps themselves change pitch according to simple MIDI sequence.
The same sequence is also triggering a synth in the other channel - also a sine with slight FM modulation and heavy tremolo (almost like a "phone off the hook" sound).
The nursery room melodies of this and many other recent songs are inspired by the idea of what Carl Orff called "streetsongs" - simple figures anyone can play as an ensemble. The timbres of the electronic instruments are the main focus here.
On the topic of GIF file sizes, maxlabor fleshes out* what was said about GIFs' lack of a "reference" frame rate:
[frame rate for gifs is] a result of how varied the source material is. i run into this issue whenever i composite more than one gif in {AfterEffects] and it's also interesting to see what happens when you do a similar operation on photoblaster.** people who work in data visualization often make gifs that are 100-200 fps, and have 7-30 frames. those who work in film and video (even animators) have to abide by motion picture / broadcast standards like 29.97/23.98/25 fps. people who make gifs from scratch can choose whatever frame rate they want in their various softwares and often choose more antiquated frame rates like 8 or 15fps.
and
if i take footage shot at 24fps and want to make a gif out of it, the frame rate dictates the fidelity of the gif. in the 360-frame gif you're talking about,*** there is no fidelity to speak of, because it is merely an abstract thing that moves nicely. fidelity doesn't really matter for most people on the internet, but i never remove frames from footage to reduce file size -- if anything, i edit the action (i.e. in and out points)
To each one's own - editing the length or number of frames is all fair game - it's the result that matters. Maybe you want the GIF to look like a poorly restored silent movie.
*he wasn't fleshing out so much as disputing the post before reading all of it (which he later thoughtfully acknowledged)
**a gif mashup site
***the giant one-bit GIF in question
Zack Friedman interviews the organizers of "Telefone Sem Fio - Word-Things of Augusto De Campos Revisited" in BOMBLOG.
My GIF remixing a De Campos piece is included in the post.
My posts about the show, which ran in Nov-Dec 2011.
See also:
Telephone journal
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Not to be cruel - this is a celebrity we're talking about - but this kid (Skrillex, the dj) has a big bulbous nose. Am sure he got ribbed about it in school and had to grow up to be famous so it became a trademark rather than a liability. In any case, a previous attempt at drawing him was fairly realistic and the nose got reduced out of empathy but it lost the essence of the guy's goofy charm. This raster portrait is more of a caricature and is rendered more vaguely so the honker is back up to full scale. (Ex-portraitist aside/self-shop talk.)
The one above isn't even recognizable but I liked how the Photoshop Navigator Buren-ized the image.
