Alys Beach - Digital Graffiti

Human Paper Recycler is a machine that easily converts your old newspapers, used envelopes and paper wrappings into brand new white or colored sheets of paper. Human Paper Recycler doesn't require electric power: It works thanks to daily spaghetti supplies. The idea came after the recent dramatic garbage problems in Naples, Italy.

STAR was created over the course of several years using a blend of idiosyncratic imagery and appropriated iconography drawn from mass media and culture. In the same way that photographs reconsider how we view painting, sampled imagery reconsider what we view as authentic and original.

The Study of Toxic Head on the Beach is a work that alludes to Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Two-Lane Blacktop and films of Stan Brakhage. This experimental short video loop was shot in Seagrove Beach, the I-10 corridor in Florida's Panhandle, and Mobile, Alabama.

Our entry presents an animation of kinetic typography focusing on optimism in troubling times. The staggering statistics may be shocking, but the entry makes a statement--as graffiti always should--and it's a positive one. The title emphasizes the importance of gratitude and small kindnesses to make a dent in some of the mounting problems plaguing our world today.

For me, inspiration comes from people... different cultures. I'm especially drawn to the Island Cultures where people seem to live with such simplicity and pureness and natural beauty. In this collection of images, I offer a glimpse into the human spirit and the common threads that unite us as One World, One People.

S.O.S. is a visual commentary on our continual path towards committing ecocide. Consisting of photographic images of hands and plant materials, I'm trying to express-through the universal language of sight-the global environmental crisis at hand, and to honor nature with all of its perfection.

This project shares the sense of dignity, generosity, peace and happiness that is Bhutan. As Bhutan moves directly from the 19th to the 20th century, I raise a prayer flag in hopes that it is the rest of the world that is changed, and not Bhutan.

These images are from the last few years of observation on 30A. As I leave and return, the impact of change here is strikingly evident while, at the same time, feeling more and more familiar. I've attempted to craft my impressions, my concerns, and my love of this amazing area and how it has changed through the works of nature and of human endeavors.

Bringing historic Seagrove photography into the digital age is more a mission of love than what some people might construe as art. Hopefully as more 'early Seagrove settlers' learn of this project, more great photos from the pre-Seaside era will be uncovered and included.

Printscape is a formal investigation of old world print practices, combined with new digital and time-based media experimentation.

Seaside has been my sole residence for 20 years. I live here, only here. I am a quadriplegic and bed bound. I photograph with my SpyCam and capture the things around me that keep me amused

I hope to bring the beautiful dead trees of South Walton from their quiet, unassuming and unpretentious existence, to center stage for one evening-not as the stereotypical barren and callous, lackluster and unproductive creatures, but as the sensible and sentient, imposing and modestly proud natural monuments that they are.

Part of what I do is to embark on film trips, wandering yet watchful and ready to collect, alert to the everyday beautiful/uncanny/remarkable in all of its manifestations.

I use a novel stop-motion technique which I call 'space-lapse'. Shadows of me cast while shooting the material are space-lapsed into animated silhouettes giving the sensation of being both stationary and moving. This is the story of a traveler: finding that which is constant in a continually changing environment.

Louisiana's Gulf Coast is rapidly disappearing-a football field a minute. Certain species that were not able to live along the coast now thrive, while others have become extinct. In this piece, species that cannot co-exist in the same environment are juxtaposed against one another.

Water is contrasted with the life it sustains. Waterbang uses visual information to consider the role of water, and the contamination of it. Overall, Waterbang is meant to represent a transitory world that allows for healing. The unexpected rhythm and tumultuous imagery lead to a calming resolve.

After a month of virtual obscurity, Women in Art caught fire and went viral. It has since been viewed over 8 million times and was nominated as Most Creative Video in the second annual YouTube awards. I am currently working on my first professional project for CBS in New York.

I see crushed things, completely abstracted. Like our true desires, they become clearer over time-followed by the next longing. Innuendos, artifacts and rough synchronization add subtle emotions to the uncertain process that builds the morbid tableaux of all possible futures.

Herr Bar is an experimental video where every single piece of graphic is made out of scans of human body parts. It's a journey through meaty landscapes and architecture, and a quest for human warmth and imperfection, in a world dominated by rigid digital media.

Forest Fantasy uses generative 3D animation to create a video 'wallpaper' of imaginary foliage in a continuously evolving palimpsest of decorative form.

Graphic Nature is an experiment that connects contemporary moving image production with the historical practice of representing abstract concepts of Nature within the visual and decorative arts. I Am Nature references the visual cliché of the graffiti drip, using paint splatters in a dynamic collage which quotes Jackson Pollock's famous quip.

Dancing Queen is a testament to a young girl's undying love for dancing. Sumit Roy's films have been screened at festivals in Cannes, Toronto, Sardinia and Hollywood. Dancing Queen was shot entirely using a mobile phone.

Fractal images are created by repeatedly calculating a fractal formula and graphing the results with different colors. The resulting images can be striking and complex. The fractal types used in this animation are variations on the Mandelbrot and Julia sets.