Travel, Photos, Art?
Published on Dec聽9, 2013 (updated Aug聽27, 2014), filed under adventure, design, photography, art. (Share this post, e.g., on Mastodon or on聽Bluesky.)
I started another side project. It鈥檚 about taking a ton of photos of street scenery, hoping for Google+鈥檚 Auto Awesome to latch on, using GIMP if not, and putting the results up on Tumblr. On the one new travel tumblr art installation that I call Animated Traffic.
It鈥檚 actually a bit more work than it looks like鈥攆or one because of Google+鈥檚 mysterious ways of deciding what photo sequences to animate and because of the sometimes random order it puts photos in (notice how some traffic flows backwards), and for another because of peculiarities on Tumblr鈥檚 end, where you can鈥檛 post GIFs natively and which has just been new territory for me. Similarly, every animation requires some optimization (histogram, dimensions, compression) as they鈥檙e heavy鈥攅ven post-optimization, each image weighs an average 2.25聽MB.
In any case, I鈥檒l use this Tumblr as a playful way of covering my world travels and to experiment a bit with GIF animations. Who knows what else I come up with. I deem a couple of posts per week realistic, so if you like it, this way please.
About Me
I鈥檓 Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I鈥檓 an engineering lead, guerrilla philosopher, and indie publisher. I鈥檝e worked as a technical lead and engineering manager for companies you use every day (like Google) and companies you鈥檝e never heard of, I鈥檓 an occasional contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and I write and review books for O鈥橰eilly and Frontend Dogma.
I love trying things, not only in web development and engineering management, but also with respect to politics and philosophy. Here on meiert.com I talk about some of my experiences and perspectives. (Please share feedback: Interpret charitably, but do be critical.)