Pete McPartlan

The video above is a short test, using screen captures from Google Mars. I really like the intricacies of the jpegy compression and the bizarrely coloured artefacts that appear in the noise. Not sure where to go from here, I think I need to apply some kind of logic rather than just an intuitive scanning around and capturing. I really want to avoid Koyaanisqatsi-esque nonsense, maybe I would be better off using something else as a source, or finding some method to organise the images. I quite like the idea of collecting thousands of images and which could then be compared to frequency graphs of audio (maybe Mars from the Holst’s Planets) but then sonograms are very dull to watch and are in many ways an arbitrary representation of sound. Or if there was some way to compare to other images, find the images that are the closest approximation of the video for Pump Up the Volume. Hmmm…