Conner Times Ten
Conner Times Ten is a Mac application inspired by Bruce Conner's Ten Second Film, which is made of ten film strips, each twenty four frames long, of countdown leader, an old cinematic convention indicating the beginning of a film. Conner Times Ten randomly selects a frame from Ten Second Film and uses it as a source to create algorithmically generated, abstract compositions.
First in a series of applications made in homage to Bruce Conner, "Conner Times Ten" is an application that creates new images using Bruce Conner's film "Ten Second Film" as its source. Conner's "Ten Second Film", which was made for the 1965 New York Film Festival but never shown during the festival because it was believed to be too "risky," was made from ten film strips each 24 frames long. Using only multiples of 10 and 24 the application "Conner Times Ten" randomly chooses a frame from "Ten Second Film" and new images are made from this frame. These new images are never the same or repeated in the same sequence.