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I have friends that look at the animation things that I do
and they say: 'Oh Kevin, you've got this really dark side of you
but I don't really see that when I talk to you.'
And, I don't know... I don't think that there is necessarily a darkness within me.
but I think that there is part of my brain that's willing to go there for the ideas.
I guess specifically the imagery that comes to life.
In the animations that I do.
I am an art director by day
and I do a lot of animation stuff on the side.
One of my projects, the flux machine,
which is GIFs I make from old photography.
I guess the black and white photography thing,
It started as just me mashing up old photographs with new, kind of modern imagery.
When you look at an old photograph,
it's probably the least likely thing that you would expect to spring into life.
You know it's static, it's old.
And I think that a lot of the GIFs that I do, or the animations, play on that suspense to me.
You look at one of the GIFs and you see something move out of the corner of your eye.
And then it doesn't move again for a good 6 or 7 seconds
And I think, a staticness of old photography adds to that feeling of suspense.
Part of what makes a GIF really interesting, really exciting
to me is that you've got about 80 frames max. to tell a story.
The looping aspect of it is another thing that makes it really interesting to me
because you need to make it something that will resolve upon itself.
And that kind of also affects the story telling.
I don't think that my project would be anywhere without today's technology.
The great thing about this day and age is that
everybody is constantly connected
to art through their laptops, through their phones.
Sites like Tumblr and Instagram, Pinterest and stuff like that, Flickr,
It all kind of brings people together
in the world of art.
This gallery that is always being refreshed and changed and updated with the coolest stuff.
And it's there, it's on your phone.
There is a common theme in the photos that there's not a single person alive now,
who was around when that photograph was taken.
There's kind of this unknowable quality to those photos.
So I kind of like to look at the photos and imagine
in my own head what could possibly have not really happened
but what an alternate history could be.
Just imagine the weird stuff that could take place in
in a past that's kind of in my own imagination
that can't really be disputed by hard fact because
no one's alive anymore.