Venus Moonrise
Case Study
Client: Personal
My Role(s): Designer, Developer
Featured Examples:
- Venus Moonrise Verses
- Venus Moonrise Choruses
- Venus Moonrise Outro
One day when looking at traffic cameras online, I realized that there must be innumerable live image feeds on the internet and the voyeur in me decided to take a sort of survey of what I could find. I eventually found a set of National Parks webcams that gave me a surprising feeling of peace, as if I were actually there. This video shows a series of image sequences obtained through a simple PHP script written to download images from three of those U.S. National Park web-cameras every 30 minutes. The script ran for a few weeks in late June and early July 2010 and captured a sequence of images from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore. Nights were removed from the sequences along with any damaged images from camera errors (the Point Reyes camera was offline for several days).
I also separated out the audio tracks from the music and used certain tracks to populate actions in the video. The dot and ring in the upper left corner, the lines in the bottom right and the yellow/blue color filters over the whole video all reflect the audio tracks. Frame blending was used to smooth over the jerkiness.
The music is “Venus Moonrise” from Agua Trip’s album “Genetics”. The earth image is from the famous images taken from the Galileo space probe as it sped away from Earth on its way out into the unknown.
