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 [...]
I still haven’t figured out anything serious to do with this footage…
The original, brutal, 35 minute Paul Sharits film is on UBU web.
This Thursday (the 18th of December) at 16:00 Bob Levene and I are going to be showing some work in progress at Titanik, Turku where we have been in residence since the start of November . I will be showing some of the hundreds of drawings I have been doing and will be drawing some [...]
Receipt Islands
More islands… this time drawn on receipt paper and rolled past the camera. The video above has been cropped and heavily processed to get the 2 tone effect. I also added some music by Goodiepal, mostly because I happened to remember it whilst recording the video, it was a free download (so I don’t [...]
A brief introduction to the Paik Abe Raster Manipulation Unit aka The Wobulator, designed by Nam June Paik and video engineer Shuya Abe. The Experimental TV Center have one of around 4?? that were ever built, it directly modulates the scan lines of the TV so to record any of its output you have to [...]