I am back at playing and experimenting with how pixels can turn a static image into animation. I have been playing with vertical and horizontal stretch patterns, and with aligned, centred, and broken-up variations of the animation across the grid and frames. The first results are surprisingly relaxing, and they make me curious to keep playing.
Stretching Pixels of Clouds
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VIDEOCombining Visualization Modes
Since 2020, when I began translating clouds in Python through tile sets of painted marks, stamp marks, and drawn shapes, much of my time has gone into tile-based visualization modes: cents, ASCII characters, halftone dots, dither, hatching, each a different vocabulary for the same sky. Until now, every export used one of them at a…
VIDEOSunset ASCII Clouds
I’m further developing the cloud engine, adding new visualization modes for an upcoming project. Each mode offers another way to answer the same question: what vocabulary should the sky be redrawn in? This iteration renders the clouds in ASCII characters. Density becomes typography; the formations resolve into text that happens to look like weather. More…
VIDEOSky Scanner Continued
The scanner has taken another turn. Rather than leaving the sky empty around the clouds, the script now fills it with concentric contours derived from the sky itself, which then merge with the cloud contours already being traced. The result is fascinating, psychedelic, and mesmerizing. The boundary between cloud and sky, the very thing the…
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I am pleased to share that Asynchronous Airdrops – One has been selected for the exhibition reel of Techspressionism: New Visual Languages at Mémoire de l’Avenir in Paris, France, curated by Colin Goldberg. The international survey of digital motion works brings together 80 artists from 24 countries. It premieres on January 22, 2027, at 6:30 p.m. Paris time (12:30…
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Last week I drove out to Lac Aylmer Park, at the edge of the Eastern Townships, to photograph a sunset. It was freezing and the park was empty out at the season, and that was precisely the advantage. With nobody around, the water stayed undisturbed long enough to hold the sky whole. Contrails crossed overhead…