complexity

I’ve created an account on Vimeo, which can be found http://vimeo.com/lascarides. I had posted a couple of video experiments on YouTube, but found their compression to be lame and their 10mb upload limit to cause pain, especially since I never know how big these experiments are going to be. Vimeo has a bit of a video art community springing up around it due to better quality video and a really really nice interface (us techy-arty types love our tools). I have never seen a site before where I thought, “hey, that’s a pretty progress bar”. Anyway, looking forward to posting more vid stuff shortly. Here’s a quickie first clip I did a couple of months ago. As with all Vimeo clips, you can download the higher-res version if you like; just click through to the video page.

Deceptively well-composed, this one is. From the balanced chunky squares in the upper right and lower left to the fine cyan bisector in the middle to the dusky red squares unifying the upper left and lower right, every part of this one says its piece without treading too heavily on its neighbors.

Been busy lately with other computing projects. But the pieces keep streaming, one or two a day. No major changes in the program lately, except that I’ve widened the range of the grid size from very small to very large, which generates some chunky shapes in with the fine ones. This one looks terrif in the closeup view (there’s a whole lot of detail that even the large size on flickr doesn’t convey).