Animated Traffic: My 10 Favorite Travel Photo Animations
Published on Jul 25, 2014 (updated Feb 5, 2024), filed under adventure, design, photography. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon.)
The story of my 18 months of travel around the world, though not including this article, is available as a big but humble e-book: Journey of J.
Last December I launched Animated Traffic. Animated Traffic is an experiment in which I play with photo animations that feed off my eternal journey, of which I’ll share the results.
The material, as of this moment, made for 302 posts covering 4 continents and 19 countries (and 1 safari). 431 posts if I include the queue. Coming up with a list of favorites, like I present here, ended up being a bit of work (during the first round, I picked 40)! But I drilled them down to 10. Including 2 exclusive ones, to be featured officially only in a few weeks. And so here is my personal Top 10, in chronological order.
La Paz, Bolivia, on December 15, 2013
La Serena, Chile, on December 29, 2013
Santiago, Chile, on January 3, 2014
São Paulo, Brazil, on February 10, 2014
Athens, Greece, on March 5, 2014
Wadi Rum, Jordan, on March 24, 2014
Masai Mara, Kenya, on April 12, 2014
Coffee Bay, South Africa, on May 11, 2014
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on June 4, 2014
Istanbul, Turkey, on June 23, 2014
_ What’s next? There are 129 animations in line right now as I’m 8 weeks behind with reviewing, editing, and posting. I’m also still traveling. I decided that I’ll run Animated Traffic at least until the end of my trip, and so there will be posts coming in for several more months.
Maybe I’ll post another Top 10 post then—but if you like this work or got curious, why not follow Animated Traffic on Tumblr (the feed’s convenient and works better than Tumblr’s stream)? Cheers!
About Me
I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I’ve worked as a technical lead and engineering manager at various companies (e.g., Google); I’m an active web and tool developer (code optimization, digital defense), a contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and a book author (O’Reilly, Frontend Dogma).
I love trying things—in web development and engineering management, but also in politics and philosophy, where I hold to one idea in particular: that we can only be well if we take good care of everyone. Here on meiert.com I talk about some of my perspectives and experiences. (Interpret charitably but be critical—and share feedback and advice that makes my work better.)