I’m a little prolific of late and so I’m always running out of Vimeo room by wednesday. Youtube is a great way to reach the masses, but I still find it’s player somewhat ugly (and I don’t like their logo burnt into my images) and it won’t let you alter it’s size and shape, nor abutt to stills and gifs on your blog. Found Veoh yesterday and accidently realized that you can make interesting stacks of video. Not sure how smooth they’ll run, but using this pixelated technique of building motion from stills, I’m not certain that smoothness is as important as the ability to layer sounds and abutt images.
I rather like that the players are of different scales and the vids of different lengths. The viewer has to play them against (smash them against) eachother and the sound and vision is never quite the same twice. In an ideal world, the vids could loop. Vimeo told me they were going to include a looping feature over a year ago and still no sign of it depite my occasional pestering. Maybe there is some reason for this, but half of my ouvre is in loops… for a painter, a little motion can go a long way and loops are a great way to isolate and study carefully a short motion event, but I digress. I’m excited about this accidental diptyque.