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The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: anticipation and deletion

68 points| adrian_mrd | 7 years ago |theverge.com

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[+] glitcherator|7 years ago|reply
Wow. This article is killing me with its Gell-Mann Amnesia effects. It's like reading a history from an alternate timeline.

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:

  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.
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

[+] DanBC|7 years ago|reply
Please don't use spaces to quote blocks of text.

Please do anything but that. Most people put a single > at the start of each paragraph of quoted text.

[+] mistersquid|7 years ago|reply
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.

[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.

[+] nwatson|7 years ago|reply
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.)

[+] leviathant|7 years ago|reply
>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.

[+] gregsadetsky|7 years ago|reply
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].

[0] https://twitter.com/youtubeartifact

[1] http://forum.glitchet.com/t/tutorial-make-video-glitch-art-h...

[2] http://glitchwizard.com/

[+] soared|7 years ago|reply
When I was young you could open a video file in a text editor and try to delete random sections then play the video until you got similar effects.
[+] dajohnson89|7 years ago|reply
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.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsB7u6wVMpM

edit: Here is a better example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_p9EVsUNE