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Thorne Brandt

: Animated Gif of the Day This video has no finished form. You could say that it is an organic video. An animated layer is added onto this video every day. All of these animations were made by me in less than one day, every day, for fun, or from samples sent to potential freelance clients that never panned out. Each exhibition, the video looks different. I've noticed that as the video becomes more complex (about 1000 layers in this one), the individual forms from personal and pop life become less recognizable, and drift towards white noise. I like the idea that entropy exists in this video. While the video lives and grows, it also decays (away from order). Newton's second law of thermodynamics gives me a queasy feeling. I tried to replicate this uneasiness with the audio soundscape. I also tried to focus on expansion in this version. It's hard to see the birth or death of any individual animation, and the video itself is a seamless loop. (although this youtube version fades out)