I made a "photoshop dots" version of the Venezuelan poodle moth drawing and SeacrestCheadle animated the dots.
art - tm
poodle moth sketch
a photo of the "venezuelan poodle moth" is flitting about the meme jungle -- i did a quick sketch of it (the photo)
plop art no. 374 (mail art version)
For a mail art exhibition, Charles Westerman printed out individual frames of this GIF of mine (and a couple of others) and made a storyboard that he folded accordion-style, taped shut, and sent through the US postal system. Above is a scan I made of the first few frames. Thanks, Charles, it looks good.
"home electro for fun and profit" cassette
"Small business chic" design for audio cassette cover.
Cassette is available on request to digital purchasers of "Home Electo for Fun and Profit," my last bandcamp release for 2014.
usb media player test series
How is the Incredisonic USB media player for looping GIFs, you ask.
Not great, but...
There are two ways you can play GIFs on this device:
1. You can screencapture the GIF looping for 2+ minutes and save the capture as an .mp4 with no loss of clarity.
But when the Incredisonic plays the .mp4, it wants to treat it as video, and adds anti-aliasing, making those sharp pixels in the GIF fuzz out. On a 1080p monitor this looks bad.
Also, it adds a black frame at the .mp4's 2 minute loop point. Also not good.
2. You can play the GIF directly as a "photo" file for durations ranging from 1 to 30 seconds. No black frame at the loop point. But it still anti-aliases so it looks bad on a HD monitor.
Also -- the player slows the GIF down to 50% of its browser speed! What the hell.
So this is basically a bust, except...
In addition to an HDMI out to a monitor, the player has a standard video (AV) out so it can be played with older TV models. A CRT television (above) is innately low-res and hides the worst effects of the antialiasing. In the case of the GIF above, the slower speed is kind of nice. Also, several versions of the GIF were loaded here, with variations in size, transparency, etc, and the player plays them one after another more or less seamlessly. So some interesting new content ideas came out of the process.
More -- including two players with no black frame at the video loop point.