I wanted to add some more colour to the work. Using Audacity to import the raw video data brought some more interesting effects with noise and and jitteriness, but not so much with the colours. I tried with both AVI and MP4 formats and they just didn't do it for me. It did work for some nice glitch art with photo stills though.

Next I went with hex editing, back to Frhed Hex Editor. I went and replaced all instances of "no" with "go" and the results were similar to what I had in my experiments: just a slow meltdown that makes it hard for Potplayer and VLC Player to digest.

Then I had an idea: what about Windows Media Player, the old-as-time video player bundled with Windows which I had left for more customizable players? Playing the video with its different codec settings brought so much colour and noise that it was clearly the winner. An issue I had with the player is that it did not allow a full-resolution screenshot, so I settled with a PrtScn of the frame.

Artist statement to follow.

My final video to be used as source material for Project 2. The clip starts with footage of being stuck on the merge into University Avenue during rush hour and ends with a scenic rural drive to Elmira with some music in the background. I wanted to focus on the frustration of being stuck in traffic and the yearning to escape to a more enjoyable voyage.

The video datamoshing technique is the same as before: remove the I-frames aside from the first frame of the two videos and put them together in Avidemux. For this video, I was inspired by Takeshi Murata's work.

Takeshi Murata, Monster Movie, 2005 from Salon 94 on Vimeo.

The way the clips blend into one another in painterly-like ways is an unexpected result of video editing, almost as if it's how the digital format attempts to return to its traditional roots of painting as an accessible medium.

What was lacking in my video is the range of colours, which I will handle in my next post.

Stereograms and Autostereograms

Stereograms are any kind of image that can be viewed with enhanced depth using stereoscopic vision. They are usually two visually similar 2D images set side by side horizontally and invite the viewer to perceive depth between them, allowing the third 3D image to emerge.

In the past, specialized stereoscopic equipment was required to view these images, but there are ways to view them using just human eyes. Called freeviewing, this can be accomplished by either defocusing your eyes or crossing them until the third image appears. Using one or the other can "flip" the perception of depth around (e.g. things that are pushed further in the one video will now be pushed closer in the other).

Here is an interactive stereogram online, using one of Salvador Dali's paintings The Chair: http://www.mcarts.com/theAge/dali.htm

Autostereograms, also called "magic eye pictures", are more commonly found stereograms, as they are composed of a single 2D image with a seemingly repeated visual pattern that when viewed with perceived depth yields a 3D image. The "auto" part of the name means that the process is done automatically, without requiring a stereoscope to view.

Autostereograms can also be videos, such as the music video "Black is Good" by Young Rival:

Above is the defocusing version, below is the cross-eyed version:

"Stereoscopy." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy>.

Norio Nagano. シンゴジラ in 3D. Digital image. Instagram. N.p., 3 Sept. 2016. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ6lh95gj5V/>.

"Stereoscopic Vision : Dali." Stereoscopic Vision : Dali. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <http://www.mcarts.com/theAge/dali.htm>.


Priester, Gary W. Lighthouse. Digital image. BrainBashers. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <https://www.brainbashers.com/showstereo.asp?29>.

Black Is Good. Perf. Young Rival. Young Rival - Black Is Good [Official] (Autostereogram Video). YouTube, 27 Jan. 2014. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38>.

Black Is Good. Perf. Young Rival. Young Rival - Black Is Good (Autostereogram Video: Crossed-Eye Version). YouTube, 27 Jan. 2014. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUO5al57-1s>.

Wigglegram

Animated images that simulate 3D vision and is done by looping a few frames that are slightly shifted from the two points of a viewer's eyes. This is a type of pseudo-stereoscopy that does not use separate images for each eye.

Ofnuts. Flower Wigglegram. Digital image. Pixls.us. N.p., 3 July 2016. Web. 13 Oct. 2016. <https://discuss.pixls.us/t/flower-wigglegram/1762>.

Datamoshing

The act of using compression artifacts to intentionally visually corrupt digital video or animated GIFs. This is the opposite of minimally using compression artifacts in order to acquire lossy-compressed images for smaller file sizes while maintaining most of its visual integrity.

Poem to Mr Compression. Dir. Rosa Menkman. Poem to Mr Compression // WMV Lowquality, Datamoshed. YouTube, 19 July 2016. Web. 17 Oct. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af2qUZ9KjXE>.

Jog Image Sequence

An image sequence is a series of frames containing visual information. In terms of glitch art, this can be "jogged" or disrupted to create digital destruction. One process is utilizing I-frames and P-frames of a video to create glitched effects: I-frames contain visual information whereas P-frames contain relative differences between frames, and changing/removing some of these frames result in "blending effects".

Pink Dot. Dir. Takeshi Murata. TAKESHI MURATA Pink Dot 2007. YouTube, 24 Aug. 2010. Web. 6 Oct. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkY6zFbwgQ>.

Cinemagraph

A digital image is a photograph that appears to be static, but instead contains subtle and/or repetitive movement. Commonly associated with fashion after the term was coined after Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck, two photographers.

Jason Winter. Digital image. CINEMAGRAPHS: THE LATEST EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMATED GIF. N.p., 16 May 2016. Web. 13 Oct. 2016. <http://blog.invisionapp.com/cinemagraphs/>.