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Surge Molecule (Video)

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[Vimeo]

Video loop, 17 inch LCD screen, portable media player, SD card (installation view)

Notes: Thinking back to the "square screen" discussion, here is a screen with a 4:3 ratio, which is the only viable way to show this particular GIF-to-mp4 conversion in fullscreen. The irony is that to document it, you have to use 16:9 because that's what all the video hosting services are using now. The above GIF is a turducken of nested media: the frames started out as screen art, printed out, then photographed. The photos were combined into an animated GIF. The GIF was converted to mp4 so it could play accurately on the portable media player (at least I don't have to burn a DVD anymore). Then the looping video was shot with a mini-HD cam and converted to mp4 for upload to Vimeo. All this for a simple punk rock gesture.

Here is a 16:9 scrunched to 4:3 version of the same video [4.4 MB .mp4] with a permanent loop.

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play (drawing demo video), 2007-2014

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Real-time X 9, MSPaintbrush drawing demo video (25 MB .mp4). The screenshot below, of the 900 x 676 vid, is scrunched here to fit a 650 pixel window. The mp4 at the above link is the highest "save-as" quality (there's still a bit of compression/softening but it's pretty sharp).

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Actual size detail:

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A YouTube version of this was put up by Guthrie in Jan 2007 (thx again) - through no fault of his, the image quality at 640 x 480 is pretty mushy. This may be a blessing to some. After almost 8 years this is now up to 4640 views, 12 upvotes, 2 downvotes, and 4 puzzled comments.

The drawing was based on a painting from 1989, 64 x 54 inches, acrylic and oil on canvas. The atom went missing in the '00s version.

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"chorus of angles" vimeo embed

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Video version of "Chorus of Angles I," a music track posted Nov. 2011. Watch for the Ken Burns effect.
Embedded videos stay up until they drop off the blog front page (yes, how quaint) and then the embed code is removed (the links stay up). Not that you need to know these Byzantine self-made rules.
As for the embed, it's always good to take abstract art and stick logos all over it. These could be removed but am kind of enjoying the horribleness of it.

Chorus of Angles from Tom Moody on Vimeo.