Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Keyframe

n.
a moment that felt innocuous at the time but ended up marking a diversion into a strange new era of your life—a chance meeting you’d think back on for years, a harmless comment that sparked an ongoing feud, an idle musing that would come to define your entire career—a monumental shift secretly buried among the tiny imperceptible differences between one ordinary day and the next.

In video compression, a key frame defines major changes in a scene. Most frames in compressed video are in-betweens, marking subtle incremental changes, but key frames depict a whole new scene. This technique allows you to move forward without stopping to buffer, even if it makes it harder to rewind.

Thwit

close-up of a person with forehead wrinkled and holding their head

Vellichor

shelves with many books stacked and organized

Aftersome

rows of opaque and clear marbles

Emorries

a magnifying glass over photos and books

Heart Of Aces

a person covering their eyes with their hands

Pithered

stacks of papers and folders piled high on a table

Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Keta

a hand reaching through paper with a flower drawing

Spinning Playback Head

silhouette of a person looking out a window

Anchorage

a person's arm extended over river rapids

Keir

a snowy landscape with trees and a fence

Affogatia

miscellaneous items on a table

Inerrata

a hand holding a broken cup

Tirosy

a close-up of a young child's face

Backmasking

a woman's face with a double exposure

Keyframe

a large rock in the water with emanating ripples

Amentalio

a person in a white dress, facing away

Yeorie

a woman with tendrils of smoke moving across her face

Fool’s Guilt

Cullaways

a lone sand castle on a beach at low tide

Covalent Bond

Suente

Anthrodynia

Mahpiohanzia

Fygophobia

Etterath

a graduation cap and gown on a chair

Falesia