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  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 2

    Below are a few examples of how you can use FFmpeg’s minterpolate to create artworks with a glitch aesthetic. You can read about how I used it for an artwork in this blog post. You can also grab the source file for these videos here. Give it a try yourself! mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=fss mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=ds mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=hexbs mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=epzs…

  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 1

    Below are a few examples of how you can use FFmpeg’s minterpolate to create artworks with a glitch aesthetic. You can read about how I used it for an artwork in this blog post. You can also grab the source file for these videos here. Give it a try yourself! mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=esa mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=tss mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=tdls mc_mode=obmc:me_mode=bidir:me=ntss…

  • Motion Interpolation for Glitch Aesthetics using FFmpeg part 0

    As you may have seen in this blog post I made use of FFmpeg’s minterpolate motion interpolation options to make all of the faces morph. There’s quite a few options for minterpolate and many different combinations of options that can be used. i had to consult Wikipedia to figure out exactly what the different…

  • (mis)Using FFmpeg’s Motion Interpolation Options

    Towards the end of the Let’s Never Meet video the robotic faces slowly morph into something a little bit more human-like. These faces continue to morph between lots of different faces, suggesting that when getting to know people you can never really settle on who they are. To make the faces morph I used…

  • Producing audio for Let’s Never Meet

    For the majority of my career in art I’ve been primarily known for my visual artwork. I’ve dabbled in making noises with my Sonification Studies performances (which may make a comeback at some point) but it’s only since my 2018 performance at databit.me that I’ve regularly made and performed music. On the performance side…

  • 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…

  • What Glitch? scripts

    For the What is Your Glitch? videos I wanted to build up on some of the extensive work that has already gone into the documentation, deconstruction and glitching of file formats. Rosa Menkman has already done a great job of documenting some of the more well-known file format glitches in the Vernacular of File…

  • Echobender

    Myself and Mez recently finished a script called Echobender that automatically databends images. To use it you’ll need: A computer with Linux installed. I don’t have a Windows or Mac PC so I can’t test it on those Sox. On Ubuntu you can install it via sudo apt-get install sox Convert, which is part…

  • Databending using Audacity

    Thanks to some help on the Audacity forum I finally know out how to use Audacity to databend. Previously I’d been using mhWavEdit, which has its limitations and just doesn’t feel as familiar as Audacity. From talk on the various databending discussion boards I found that people would often use tools like Cool Edit/Adobe…

  • Ubuntu Bug Jam

    From Friday 2nd to Sunday many Ubuntu, Linux and Open Source enthusiasts descended upon the Linux Emporium to take part in the Ubuntu Bug Jam. In the words of an Ubuntu blogger, the Ubuntu Bug Jam is: …a world-wide online and face-to-face event to get people together to fix Ubuntu bugs – we want…