Sea of Tranquillity - Hans Op De Beeck - revisited by Jon & Ibe

printscreen - Sea of Tranquillity, revisited by Jon & Ibe

Go to the page or click the image to see the animation.

The photo used for this digital work was made at the exhibition that accompanied the movie at ARGOS (BXL). The photo is not the real captain (Johan Leysen) himself but rather a stunning real-life sculpture made by casting his face with an advanced silicone technique. Hence his closed eyes.

The vast emptiness of the movie inspired us for this online piece.

Technical sidenote:

  • The animation is made with a combination of css and jQuery. It's less than 400KB.
  • The page refreshes after 300 sec - a loop would be better but requires a rewrite or more jQuery knowledge - it beats the 'marquee' tag in the first version - jQuery with easing runs smoother and has custom speed.
  • Only open source tools were used:
    • html, css and java written with Bluefish
    • image manipulation in Gimp
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