August 2011

  • Extrafile

    By now we’ve all seen so many jpg and bmp glitches that they’ve almost become just another effect. Unfortunately, due to the limited amount of image file formats there are only a finite number of ways to exploit them. Extrafile, by Kim Asendorf, is a great response to this. The application allows one to…

  • FREECODE HEXAGON, 19th August 2011

    On 19th August 2011 FREECODE (myself, Chromatouch, Minuek and Laternist), Modulate and Scree (Catweasel and DJ Sir Real) will be taking over the Hexagon Theatre at the Mac in Birmingham for a night of audio and visual delights. (FB event link) ▁ ▂ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ ƑŘẸẸČỖĎẸ █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄…

  • LÖVE Glitches

    Whilst I was in Venice for the Laptop Meets Musicians festival with BiLE I had the pleasure of (finally) meeting {rukano} who later showed me this really awesome way of displaying uncleared video memory with LOVE and LICK. I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 with LÖVE version love_0.7.2-0natty2_i386.deb. Once you have downloaded and installed LÖVE and…

  • Dirty Bristow issue Two launch – 13th August 2011

    Dirty Bristow, an independent magazine from local bloggers/twitterers/social media/internet fellows Jon Bounds and Danny Smith, is holding a launch party for their second issue on Saturday 13th August from 8pm at The Edge in Digbeth: Just like Issue 1 I provided an illustration for one of the articles, a preview of which you can…

  • Self-inflicted Haircut

    I provided some post-production effects for a new video by local jazz/metal fusion outfit Meatfeast. They’re doing a release party for the video and for their new EP on 5th August 2011 at Scruffy Murpheys, Dale End, West Midlands, B4 7LN, Birmingham, UK [map]. More information is available at the Facebook Event invite. Hopefully…

  • Glitched Badges

    A limited amount of glitched badges featuring stills from this video are now available for £2.25 plus postage and packaging. Sold in packs of two randomly chosen designs. Can also be exchanged for beer</joke>

  • Adventures in Vector Quantization

    Ever since seeing Radio Dada by Rosa Menkman I’ve been forever trying to reproduce the style of compression/glitches it uses. In my limited knowledge about the production of the video I do know what it uses compression artifacts found in the Cinepak codec. So, I set out to try and find a way of…