As an artist one often thinks of throwing stuff away that has been hanging around the studio for too long. The animated webcam project below is a case in point. I was cleaning up my files when I ran into images which had been out of my mind for about two years now.

I originally made a book of some of the jpegs which are now animated, but I never bothered to develop an actual animation. Part of the reason was that I thought of them as images for and by the web and if I edited them, I would need to do it in a video editing program such as premiere or final cut -- that, to me, leads to a process outside web media. Those programs can certainly edit video for any format available, but their main purpose is not the web -- then came Flash for the web. It seemed right that I develop animations with these images from long ago, and so I did.

The stills were taken from the KCRW website. The radio station has a web cam which often shows the studio where the DJs perform their broadcasts. But as the animations show, sometimes the camera presents images which do not make much sense. Click on any image below; when done, close the window to return to this page.

--Eduardo Navas, April 2000