Channel 2014 - another randomized neverending sadness loop machine

http://gifsforum.com/gif_generator/gif_created/584704877be644a2118d8ed4db4d336a.gif?1413908974466
(around 41:30)

http://gifsforum.com/gif_generator/gif_created/5633858e4c64b0583a69ce233accf675.gif?1413909141580

(sorry using crappy web gif editor, can't get it exactly where I want it but you get the idea)

omg he looks psychotic there

i'll have to wait til i get home so i can look at the video, but whatever part is used for the cover frame/still shot for the video looks promising - DJ/crowd/sparks flying all in one shot.

my 2 cents is that you don't have a sense of how a year will be remembered until several years later... like maybe it would be more doable to do an "essence of 2010" site? Unless that's the point?
but i'm down to help in any way if you got ideas

yeah, the difficulty of capturing a time when you're still in it is something that kind of kept me in standstill on this for months. but eventually i came to the idea that it's not about accurately documenting the content of the year in a comprehensive and universal, but instead a really subjective slant on it. that may not be a great idea, but at least it lets me move forward on it. (also, i don't have the kind of memory that allows me to draw a good portrait of 2010, or even 2013 really.) i'm not so concerned with capturing all of the most important elements of 2014 life so much as getting the general vibe down. and for me the vibe is just waves of information, infinite scroll feeds bleeding into private thoughts. it's hard for me to explain what it will end up sounding like but my goal is for it to sound like walking through a crowded market, catching bits and pieces of various conversations

IDK if I agree anyway, often the after-the-fact distillation of a time is a caricature or distortion, focusing on the outlandish and ignoring the more mundane but fundamental essences of life during that era.

I see that a lot now with 90s nostalgia, granted we're talking about 20 years ago not 4 years ago.

I don't know how hard it is to make it an apple TV app, but apparently making a roku channel is easy, so you could make it a literal TV channel of sorts.

xpost Also, the thing that got me re-excited about this the other day was the realization that something on the edge between documentary and fiction could be a positive distinguishing feature rather than a flaw. It's the Sans Soleil thing. I've always loved documentaries that break out of the really boring structure of interviewing people sitting in chairs with overlaid text with their name and title. I will fall massively short but I hope to make a sort of generative pseudodocumentary that communicates truth versions without being too obvious about it.

history is a set of lies agree upon, the present is an ongoing lie that we haven't committed to yet.
-bob marley

man bob marley knew everything

hyped for this & also want to just throw in that marker eventually abandoned film in light of the greater possibilities afforded by the cd-rom as a medium & so is a valuable touchstone, here

there should be a compendium of 2014 shame-faces a la this facial expression

do something with this plz: http://i.imgur.com/J46pi1m.jpg

including this facial expression is a great idea!

http://i.imgur.com/ZKVOMGE.jpg

https://medium.com/the-nib/2014-the-year-in-garbage-626ca0d58c6

welp, i've decided to put this project on hold and focus on another one that uses the same code but is waaaaaay more coherent (i think):

Thirty Second Stories (.com)