vhs generation loss

http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/

im a big fan of james rolf. and quite a vhs fan myself.. always wondered this and now i know!

I did something like this back in middle school with a jpeg. I kept spinning it around in Windows Image Viewer until it was nothing but static. It was like one of those picture frames filled with multi-coloured sand.

  On 5/30/2010 at 6:17 PM, kaini said:

I REALLY fucking love stuff like this. Is there any software that can induce this kind of degenerative glitching?

That is really cool.

  On 5/30/2010 at 7:52 PM, Rhombix said:

I REALLY fucking love stuff like this. Is there any software that can induce this kind of degenerative glitching?

As mentioned above, JPG compression for images, but if you're talking about a digital video, I assume exporting/compressing a clip over and over would have a similar effect. Just re-open the compressed clip each time instead of starting form the original.

I have a little java program a friend of mine scripted, he called it filescrambler, it damages files and with some filetypes it results in funny stuff, if you can still open them. I used it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkjJndLnVps

that video made me feel crazy towards the end

  On 5/30/2010 at 7:52 PM, Rhombix said:

I REALLY fucking love stuff like this. Is there any software that can induce this kind of degenerative glitching?

Get a couple of VCR's.

  On 5/30/2010 at 6:13 PM, chris moss acid said:

http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/

 

im a big fan of james rolf. and quite a vhs fan myself.. always wondered this and now i know!

VHS were awesome.

  On 5/30/2010 at 9:59 PM, Xyrofen said:

  On 5/30/2010 at 6:13 PM, chris moss acid said:

http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/05/26/vhs-generation-loss/

 

im a big fan of james rolf. and quite a vhs fan myself.. always wondered this and now i know!

 

omg your james rolfe (correct spelling)

  On 5/30/2010 at 8:52 PM, sidewinder said:

That is really cool.

 

  On 5/30/2010 at 7:52 PM, Rhombix said:

I REALLY fucking love stuff like this. Is there any software that can induce this kind of degenerative glitching?

 

As mentioned above, JPG compression for images, but if you're talking about a digital video, I assume exporting/compressing a clip over and over would have a similar effect. Just re-open the compressed clip each time instead of starting form the original.

I decided to try this technique for myself. Here are two images, a PNG, and the result of this PNG being compressed into a JPEG 55 times:

This is the kind of thing that happens to the human body during the aging process. Have a good think about that.

  On 5/30/2010 at 7:52 PM, Rhombix said:

I REALLY fucking love stuff like this. Is there any software that can induce this kind of degenerative glitching?

i've made a small Processing library a while ago: glitchP5

here's a demo (put your browser in 32bit mode for this to work)

  On 5/30/2010 at 7:52 PM, Rhombix said:

I REALLY fucking love stuff like this. Is there any software that can induce this kind of degenerative glitching?

if you're on a Mac: Quartz Composer + Datamosh.

some shithead wasted alot of time doing this

  On 5/31/2010 at 2:21 AM, Producer Snafu said:

some shithead wasted alot of time doing this

And of course each one of your two and a half thousand posts have been infinitely more productive to society...

this is pretty eerie and awesome

http://www.tvdawn.com/Disc98_2.HTM

http://www.tvdawn.com/Disc98_3.HTM

http://www.tvdawn.com/Disc98_4.HTM

http://www.tvdawn.com/tvimage.htm

lol sorry I thought this topic was only like a week ago sorry to resurrect it

  On 5/30/2010 at 9:01 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

I have a little java program a friend of mine scripted, he called it filescrambler, it damages files and with some filetypes it results in funny stuff, if you can still open them. I used it here:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkjJndLnVps

I really like this. Do you know where I could find more of this kind of stuff? I don't like the purely abstract glitchy stuff so much but this was highly entertaining.

Punch ya hard too!