Starting in June 2017, Out Of The Loop was my second 100 Loops in 100 Days daily challenge, created in collaboration with Nicola Destefanis.
Every day for 100 consecutive days, we designed, animated, and scored a new 2-second, 60fps gradient loop inspired by 80s pop-culture memories.
Every loop is steeped in 80s nostalgia and childhood memories where the borders blur between movies, arcade games, toys, TV commercials, and tactile sensations, distant echoes of a not-so-distant past.
Just like human memory works, we quickly noticed that what sticks in the imagination is rarely a literal frame from the film, but a strange, graphic detail that took on a life of its own. Halfway through the series, I realized many of the loops made a great guessing game and turned them into the interactive 30 Movies GIFs Quiz.
Just like Gastaloops, we set strict formal constraints from day one to guide the visual language and keep us moving fast:
In 2017 I came across Phantom by Jason Gaffner and emailed him out of the blue to ask if I could use his track for my 2017 Showreel. That single email sparked a collaboration: the complete Out Of The Loop collection became the official music video for his single Feel Something.
Alongside the music video, we posted each daily loop on Instagram (@gastaloop) with a bespoke daily mini-soundtrack.
Selected Features & Screenings:
Athens Digital Arts Festival · VID & SOUND BIME PRO · We and the Color · Singular Graphic Design · Behance Motion · Creativepool · Ello
People often asked why I jumped into another 100-day marathon after finishing Gastaloops. For years I had started and deleted drawings, songs, animations, and writings simply because I felt they weren’t good enough.
A 100-day commitment removes the excuse to quit. Not every single loop has to be a masterpiece; what matters is showing up every night, solving creative and technical problems against the clock, and watching the body of work take shape one day at a time.
All 100 daily loops (#001 to #100), remastered from the original 305 MB GIF archive into crisp, lightweight H.264 MP4 loops.