And of, course, the linked youtube video is some obvious corporate pop famous-for-being-famous drivel, almost immediately after stating the following:
Two years later, the artist Takeshi Murata
created “Monster Movie,” which blended footage
from a 1981 B-movie and a heavy soundtrack and
which is now in the permanent collection at the
Smithsonian as perhaps the most influential
piece in the datamosh canon.
You can also surround the text block in asterisks to put it in italics:
> Two years later, the artist Takeshi Murata
created “Monster Movie,” which blended footage
from a 1981 B-movie and a heavy soundtrack and
which is now in the permanent collection at the
Smithsonian as perhaps the most influential
piece in the datamosh canon.
I use ">" because most people on HN can read raw markdown. Other people use HN code-blocks because they more closely resemble the indentation that ">" produces in markdown. I can't fathom why one method would be vastly preferred over another, or why it needs to be policed like this.
It can be fixed in CSS. Add scrollbars to <pre> on small viewports, or have it wrap on small viewports.
Opera Mini could do magic with forcing text to wrap on small displays, why are mobile browsers shit today? If you don't want this to be usable on an actual computer, why not make HN an app and be done with it? Comments could become even shorter and more inane than they generally are already.
Glitch art makers are a fairly well-established subculture.[0] [1]. My direct familiarity with Glitch art is a commercial app by same name of Glitché. [2] (Note, that site is a disaster even on a fairly modern desktop which may in fact be on-brand, even though it might give HN-types conniption fits.)
While the Glitch art subculture seems to have faded from the zeitgeist a bit, Glitch art generates aesthetically satisfying works from "unintentional" data processing errors and in some ways is analogous to what software programmers do when building non-glitchy works.
I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environment.
One glitched audio example I found quite beautiful is the audio art piece overlaid on John Adam's "Christian Zeal and Activity" from "The Chairman Dances" album ( https://youtu.be/59ceORsBT0A?t=204 ). The URL starting at 3:24 provides about a minute music intro to the glitched, cut, re-ordered audio of an Oral Roberts (?) sermon excerpt where he talks about Jesus healing a man with a disabled hand. (Not all performances of this piece use the same audio sample.)
>I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environment.
"I don't find the resulting distorted audio very interesting ... it sounds like a overdriven amplifier having trouble with a broken low-quality speaker"
Often the kind of malfunctioning or low-quality processing that plagues engineers is embraced by creative types. There are countless examples in the audio world over the last half-century - look at the popularity of overdrive pedals and bitcrushers and analog delay effects in a world where pristine amplification and effects processing is possible on affordable consumer-grade equipment. There's a similarity to many of the changes that audio editing and processing underwent in the early 2000s, as tools of the trade become more widely available.
The Verge article links to an incorrect Twitter handle, it should be @youtubeartifact (and not youtubeartifacts with an 's'). [0]
There's a great tutorial/article here [1] on datamoshing / I- and P-frame hacking. Searching for 'datamosh' or 'datamoshing' on YouTube will return many good results.
Finally, I also recommend checking out a great glitching iOS app (which does photo & video), Glitch Wizard [2].
There's a similar YouTube video style, where random bits of the video are sped up, slowed down, zoomed in, blurred/distorted, etc. Does anyone have an idea what this style is called? [0] is the closest i can find right now as an example, but there's no special effects here it's just splicing/mashup of various clips.
Readit News
And why doesn't the included Twitter bot link work?
https://twitter.com/youtubeartifacts?
And of, course, the linked youtube video is some obvious corporate pop famous-for-being-famous drivel, almost immediately after stating the following:
And yet a better Youtube link is avoided:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I
But why?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Please do anything but that. Most people put a single > at the start of each paragraph of quoted text.
> Two years later, the artist Takeshi Murata created “Monster Movie,” which blended footage from a 1981 B-movie and a heavy soundtrack and which is now in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian as perhaps the most influential piece in the datamosh canon.
Opera Mini could do magic with forcing text to wrap on small displays, why are mobile browsers shit today? If you don't want this to be usable on an actual computer, why not make HN an app and be done with it? Comments could become even shorter and more inane than they generally are already.
While the Glitch art subculture seems to have faded from the zeitgeist a bit, Glitch art generates aesthetically satisfying works from "unintentional" data processing errors and in some ways is analogous to what software programmers do when building non-glitchy works.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_art
[1] http://www.theperipherymag.com/on-the-arts-glitch-it-good/
[2] http://glitche.com
EDIT: Remove duplicate citation glyph. Reorder citation references. Grammar.
One glitched audio example I found quite beautiful is the audio art piece overlaid on John Adam's "Christian Zeal and Activity" from "The Chairman Dances" album ( https://youtu.be/59ceORsBT0A?t=204 ). The URL starting at 3:24 provides about a minute music intro to the glitched, cut, re-ordered audio of an Oral Roberts (?) sermon excerpt where he talks about Jesus healing a man with a disabled hand. (Not all performances of this piece use the same audio sample.)
"I don't find the resulting distorted audio very interesting ... it sounds like a overdriven amplifier having trouble with a broken low-quality speaker"
Often the kind of malfunctioning or low-quality processing that plagues engineers is embraced by creative types. There are countless examples in the audio world over the last half-century - look at the popularity of overdrive pedals and bitcrushers and analog delay effects in a world where pristine amplification and effects processing is possible on affordable consumer-grade equipment. There's a similarity to many of the changes that audio editing and processing underwent in the early 2000s, as tools of the trade become more widely available.
There just isn't something creative about the video, which is an unremarkable transformation of an unremarkable video.
There's a great tutorial/article here [1] on datamoshing / I- and P-frame hacking. Searching for 'datamosh' or 'datamoshing' on YouTube will return many good results.
Finally, I also recommend checking out a great glitching iOS app (which does photo & video), Glitch Wizard [2].
[0] https://twitter.com/youtubeartifact
[1] http://forum.glitchet.com/t/tutorial-make-video-glitch-art-h...
[2] http://glitchwizard.com/
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsB7u6wVMpM
edit: Here is a better example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_p9EVsUNE
[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-FaceFJYCk
edit: fixed zero-based reference index.
https://youtu.be/tt7gP_IW-1w
And another that mimics the effect
https://youtu.be/FQlhQ-GrzLk
And another that appears to be a mixture of both
https://youtu.be/b4Bj7Zb-YD4