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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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Read: Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young ★★★★ 📚

I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be totally stumped and have writer's block. We will see. Writing is very convenient, has a low expense and is a great way to pass the time. I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn't know what to do next.

Reads almost as it has been run right out with any editing. Jumps from topic to topic & across times, with occasional words to the reader. Follows a wide range of the author's experiences obsessions in a somehow really engaging way.

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Read: Extremophile by Ian Green ★★★ 📚

A note on Scrim’s eyes. He is proud of the eyes. (I’m proud of the eyes, baby, he is heard to say often.) Eye tattoos across the sclera with polarised something in them, micro-LED implants, he thinks, and his eyes shine and glow like the devil himself, if the devil himself followed a very western European late nineteenth-century vibe (which for Scrim he certainly does, baby).

Punks, biohackers, climate-collapse & eco-terrorism. London after societal collapse. A super villain, a mole person, breathless thrills & violence with a little nature writing thrown in. A bit too sweary & headlong for me.