August 24, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
This September, Mark Batty Publishers is releasing a book called Glitch – Designing Imperfection that takes a look at the wonderful artwork of many artists that incorporate digital artifacts into their creations. The book looks like an absolutely wild page-flipper and something every nerd and geek might appreciate from programming and everyday computer use.
Glitch: Designing Imperfection
February 12, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
If you’ve ever download a video from the web, you’ve probably run into the problem of getting a corrupted or incomplete video file at least once. The result, when you try to play the file, usually ends up looking either very pixely or distorted with lots of digital video artifacts in between frames. In other words, it looks like the music video for “Evident Utensil” by Chairlift shown above.
The thing I love about this music video though is that it’s made so well to deliberately mimic the look of a corrupted file, so much so that I actually thought I was watching a badly uploaded YouTube video. But when I realized that the morphing transitions within the video were carefully constructed, I literally stopped everything I was doing and gave the video my full attention. I really want to know what they did to get the effect so perfect and realistic.
