Moonfire Studio Graphics & Websites

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Eternal Flow

Take a break from busy-ness and enjoy this soothing perpetual animation. Based on random numbers, it never creates the same composition twice so every frame is NEW, forever, just like real life and each time it is played is unique! The soundtrack includes harmonic singing (the way whales always communicate) performed by the Seattle Harmonic Voices choir.

The movies we are used to seeing have a beginning and an end and a linear time span that separates beginning from end. This animation has only a one-frame timespan on the main timeline. It is always "being here now". The animals and seascape elements occur in cycles of different lengths and bounded random placements and scales all anchored in the one "present" timeframe. This is how indigenous peoples often describe their sense of time, an eternal present consisting of infinitely repeating and changing cycles.

Best enjoyed at 1024 x 768 screen resolution with sound ON

Tour Gabriola Island

Gabriola Tour Map

An animated map of the island we have called home since 1973. This is an ongoing project, an exploration of community mapping that literally has no bounds except the imagination and the time it takes to bring imagination into reality. Flash is amazing for maps. A single Flash Map like this could lead to encyclopedic densities of information all attractively and entertainingly presented, with video and sound.