I more or less started to get interested in live video-art after seeing Mejadra Eyes, one of Israel’s most prominent VJ’s (and I guess one of the very few actually making a living out of it out here in the desert), perform with Fortuna in their duo Shemesh BaPe (sun in the mouth) some years ago. To me it was actionable inspiration – it was awesome AND it was something I thought I might be able to do myself one day. Yesterday she got me coffee 🤩
This beautiful foot-juggling video, which shoes the extraordinary levels of concentration people get achieve in within this time, in a world of incessant noise and shallow interruptions, made me somehow feel more hopeful about the world. (and thank you Boaz for the link!)
Nvidia just released StyleGAN 2 a few days ago, addressing some of the state-of-the-art image generator’s idiosyncratic artifacts and glitches (and probably creating some less cool new ones). Should we upgrade our failed experiments?
In 2008, programmer and glitch artist Doron Adler wrote the world’s first mobile client for streaming live video from the iPhone to the web. This was done for jailbroken iPhone (1st gen), before it had any official video support! But there was one small problem… the images were sampled from buffers of six frames, the order of which was unknown, causing a jerky glitch effect… I was hooked! Unfortunately, the original videos are no longer available, so for the past few weeks, Doron’s nostalgia and my obsession drove us to try and recreate the effect. And now you can too! junkie is an online glitcher that applies short-window frame shuffling, and we made it optionally cross-channel “for better effect”. Wait for the drop:
Doron explains how he made this clip:
1. Found on YouTube – a black & white video called “1920s Dance Craze”
2. Colorized it with DeOldefiy
3. Found on SoundCloud – A royalty free dubstep song
4. Ran junkie on the Colorized video and got many junkie-glitched flavors (different parameter choices)
5. Cropped parts I liked from each flavor
6. Edited the cropped parts and added the soundtrack with iMovie
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