Snakes hallucinating in a tea-tree forest

A new shockwave flash movie is now available to be viewed at dotAtelier.net called snakes hallucinating in a tea-tree forest.

Snakes is constructed out of images made during 2011 in coastal areas of the west Pacific. The dominant influence is the tea-tree forest (leptospermum). Mingling among the tea-trees are Mesopotamian-Celtic snakes, spiraling in the vegetation. Their perspective is taken. Forms of the ocean feature also.

The music accompanying snakes is the complete 4th string quartet of Becerra played by the Phila String Quartet( Cc-by-sa from Free Music! ). This is the whole piece as he intended it to be heard. You may recognise two of the movements from Intertidal Zone where the first and fourth movement also are heard.

This version of snakes is a shockwave flash movie (.swf), offering the highest quality performance. You can watch it in a page of its own here and full-screen is recommended. It will take a few seconds to load. If you have bandwidth problems, download it by right clicking (control-click) here and saving the file to your computer, then open it with a browser.

Shortly a flash video will be available on Blip.tv and YouTube. Unlike the shockwave flash movie you can start and stop the flash video as well as fast forward and rewind. If you like! Although some quality was lost in the rendering, I am more satisfied with this rendered flash video than any others I have made. This clip does not use movement, but colour change, transparency and layers to achieve its effects, so pixeling is avoided in the rendered product to a large extent.

Snakes runs for about 15 minutes. Turn on the audio and relax.

Images are licenced CC BY-NC-SA.

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