30000fps is an anonymous Berlin based visual artist working within the confines of one to two second animated loops that produce a wide range of optical and emotional sensations upon viewing. We got in touch to find out more about the unidentified creative behind the site.

Why did you start the site?
30000fps was initially a side project of mine, and I still treat it more like a sketchbook than anything else, a place where I can post experiments in visual loop making. I come from a graphic design and fine arts background and over the last few years started moving more toward animation and video. I’ve always been a curious person and a lot of the works stem from asking simple questions like – what would it look like to stand inside a perfectly mirrored sphere? What would you see? I take that approach with all of my animations.

I try to stay focused on some of the themes that interest me, but it’s a long list. Mainly futurology – space travel, artificial intelligence, and nostalgia for obsolete technology. I’m also inspired by many early works of op-art, light art, video art, plus different optical and physical phenomena like the ganzfeld effect, interference patterns, cymatics, schlieren photography…

Over time the site has sort of taken on a life of its own and now has a small following, but in the beginning it wasn’t as active. The name has to do with my interest in optics and imaging technology, including high speed photography. 30000fps is an effect best seen in real life – http://goo.gl/WP3XCA.

As much as I enjoy working digitally, I’m also inspired a lot by the real world. Lately I’ve been aiming to make loops that you can watch for longer periods of time, trying to emulate real sensations like the light reflecting off of waves in a river or lake, or the feeling of flying through the air or traveling through space. Certain seamless loops can produce strange afterimages while others have a hypnotizing effect – especially when you can’t tell where the loop point is.  They almost exist outside of time. There’s a certain power in that.

Aside from making gifs, one of my goals is to get more involved in some of the new developments in augmented and virtual reality. The idea of VR was just a tease when I was younger (PowerGlove), but seems like it’s about to bring about a very big shift in the coming years. I think the perceived border between the digital world and the real world is collapsing and it will be really fascinating to see where things are headed.

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What’s your day job?
Right now I work as a freelance motion and graphic designer, so I’m usually dreaming up animations or doing some print design on the side (books and records). But I always come back to 30000fps. I have to say I’m really humbled every day by the following that the site has gained, and it’s thanks to everyone that stops by and shares the images or writes to me that keeps it going.

There will be a new series involving light and refraction coming out later in the year, an edition of prints available for sale, and also more new stuff coming out on 30000crt and regular posts at 30000fps. Stay tuned!

Favourite animation:
Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero by Charles and Ray Eames.

Favourite Wikipedia pages:
Timeline of the far future | Extraterrestrial Skies | Tesseracts | Simulation hypothesis | Eternal Return | Schlieren photography

Follow 30000fps on Tumblr here.

More: Website

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a secret. is a photography blog that pairs submitted secrets with photographs to create alternate contexts and interpretations. Run by photographer and designer, Aoife O’Dwyer, the blog is currently in the process of becoming an online and print magazine.

Photo: Michelle Fader

Photo: Michelle Fader

You can submit photographs and your own secrets online here. Check out the blog here.

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The Installator (wrapit-tapeit-walkit-placeit) is a blog curated by Chicago based SAIC instructor and curator, Britton Bertran which documents art in transit from various sources around the web. Whether it’s the arrival of a 42,000 year-old baby mammoth at the Natural History Museum in London, art being recovered by soldiers at the end of World War II, or installing an Ai Weiwei installation in Venice, here’s a different way to look at art.

Lyuba the 42,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Arrives at the Natural History Museum in London from themindofaconservator

Read more about The Installator here. If you’re interested in art in transition, check out Stephen Iles’ My Process about Leeds based exhibition, Between Space.

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Who:
Struan Teague is a Scottish illustrator and artist who has created designs for bands such as Blank Canvas.

Blank Canvas Record Artwork by Struan Teague

Why we like it:
Struan’s attractive freehand style grabbed our attention and we love how he uses it in a multitude of media.

Hidden treasure:
We found an inkjet and woodblock print on Struan’s Flickr here. (It has a dinosaur in it… what more can we say?)

Where to find out more:
Website | Tumblr | Flickr

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And Sew for Today is a daily project by Emma Ruth.

Each morning, Emma uses an internet based random word generator to choose a word then she hand stitches it onto a piece of fabric. Without using patterns or pre-planning, Emma grabs some fabric and thread and stitches the first thing that comes into her head. It’s an experiment in typography, embroidery and fun.

This is just a small selection of her work here, see her Tumblr for more.

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Find out more about Emma here.
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