Momentary codex. Time traveling. Weirding Way.

The audio:
Do Not Spit Here and There: A Noise Primer on the Indian Subcontinent, by the Audiofile Collective. It's truly ecstatic and can be gotten here: postworldindustries.com/audio/cd_afc_do_not_spit.html. I highly recommend it. The specific track I've sampled here is "We Can Travel Through the Speakers."

The images:
The seascape is near my home in Harpswell, ME. It was shot with an Arri SR 16mm on Fuji Reala 500D and telecined by ColorLab in NYC. It has been uprezed to 720p from 480p. This particular version of it has not been color corrected.

The girl was photographed off the screen with a Canon HV30. Video chat through Skype, Maine to Shanghai. I've been exploring the textures created by various codecs. In this case VP7 -> HDV -> ProRes 422 -> H.264. It has not been color corrected. The first clip has been slowed down to 12fps and frameblended. What I like about this method of rephotography is that the effects of each codec are visible in the final product. If you look closely, you can see the pixels of the LCD screen overlaying the VP7 video stream. The compression / decompression of space and time has a strange effect on me. I can't quite explain it yet.

The time difference between us was exactly 12 hours.