Category Archives: posse

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iframe{margin:0px;mix-blend-mode: screen; /* Blend mode to make black transparent */}

The other day I was exploring Are.na and saw a lovely gif. I’ve been thinking about the animations created by Ade that are quite analogue and wonder-filled, example. I had thought about some sort of JavaScript & css version the would show a transparent gif over a slideshow of images. I’d tried a few but none looked very nice. This new gif looked amazing and I downloaded it and incorporated it a file I was testing. It looked a lot better than my other efforts.

Thinking to publish this experiment, I started trying to find the original to see how it was licensed. Are.na has a nice feature where you can pass an image to a Google search. This didn’t turn up anything useful except a Pinterest link to a YouTube video. This must have been the source of the gif.

In my testing I’d used the css mix-blend-mode to make the black areas of the gif transparent, so I wondered about the video. Turns out if you target the iframe that is YouTube video embed code that works too. The image behind swaps out every 3 seconds.

Compare with the original video & with the background on a separate page: Transparent Youtube.

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3x3 grid of images, photos with a map in the centre. From topleft: The moon setting behind some trees, a sun lit orad, a sunling path trough bracken, a winter tree with the rising sun behind, the map, a raven wings outspread agaist a blue sky, an oak tree, a ranve perched on a rock, a buzzard in a hawthorn tree.

I arrived at the Kilpatrick hills car park at dawn this morning. It was already pretty full. Frosty with a clear sky. The full moon going down. More folk than usual on the tracks and paths. Saw a few redwing feeding on hawthorn along with blackies & thrushes.
Beautiful warm light to start, long shadows.
The frozen ground was much nicer than the usual bog between Loch Humphrey and Duncolm.
On Duncolm a raven circled diving & twisting with quiet croaks. Seemed unfazed by me and came quite close, shining in the sun. Saw a few more on the way back. A little egret in the horse field. I wonder if they come to the field when the tide is high. I saw this one at 12:30 and high tide at Old Kilpatrick was at 12:40 today. I’ll try and keep a note.
Nice view of a buzzard in a hawthorn near the road and a flock of fieldfares on the field and hawthorn.

Photos on flickr & on the

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montage of 665 photos from flickr

As usual I’ve made a pummelvision style video:

The featured image is a montage of the same photos and here is an average:

An abstract gradient of green and blue tones with vertical bands.

Because I’ve now got a local database of my flickr photos it was easy to get all my tags of the year and make a wordcloud.

A word cloud with words like "fauna," "butterfly," and "kilpatrickbraes" in green on a black background.

And a slitscan (or a sort, given these are separate still images):

Abstract vertical striped pattern in green, brown, blue, and other colors