I’m doing a new project of experimental video/image called the One Second Series. Each piece is in 25 parts, composed of 24 still frames and a one-second video loop made of each of the frames. Here’s the second one I did, called One Second 2.

24 frames:

Video (you can right click on the video player and select “loop” to get the full effect, but just a note that if you do this it will have a flashing light effect that should come with an epilepsy warning):

I made this entirely out of digital artifacts from a cell phone photo processed in Photoshop. Each frame has two layers: the background (which is all one artifact moved in different configurations) plus the shape on top (which was a particular shape within the background that I became fixated on and decided to single out. I made 24 different versions of it with the “pattern overlay” effect).

The background is sequenced in such a way that you get moments of animation-esque movement. It moves in a few different directions, and changes size and orientation. But I wanted the movement of the background to have a certain arc to it. Then I just placed each shape in the second layer in such a way that it would complement the background and create a good composition, without thinking about how it would play as a video.

Then the video itself is the sum total of all that. Hopefully you think it looks cool.