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  1. Virus

    This a databending job with vertical bars of inverted colors added in GIMP, inspired by a GIF image I saw of a DOS virus that basically causes the command prompt to glitch out and draw vertical bars across the screen.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Retro #RetroArt #RetroAesthetic #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #Trippy #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Corrupted #Error #Errors #Computer #Tech #Databending #Abstract #AbstractArt #GIMP #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  2. Virus

    This a databending job with vertical bars of inverted colors added in GIMP, inspired by a GIF image I saw of a DOS virus that basically causes the command prompt to glitch out and draw vertical bars across the screen.

  3. Virus

    This a databending job with vertical bars of inverted colors added in GIMP, inspired by a GIF image I saw of a DOS virus that basically causes the command prompt to glitch out and draw vertical bars across the screen.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Retro #RetroArt #RetroAesthetic #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #Trippy #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Corrupted #Error #Errors #Computer #Tech #Databending #Abstract #AbstractArt #GIMP #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  4. Virus

    This a databending job with vertical bars of inverted colors added in GIMP, inspired by a GIF image I saw of a DOS virus that basically causes the command prompt to glitch out and draw vertical bars across the screen.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Retro #RetroArt #RetroAesthetic #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #Trippy #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Corrupted #Error #Errors #Computer #Tech #Databending #Abstract #AbstractArt #GIMP #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  5. Virus

    This a databending job with vertical bars of inverted colors added in GIMP, inspired by a GIF image I saw of a DOS virus that basically causes the command prompt to glitch out and draw vertical bars across the screen.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Retro #RetroArt #RetroAesthetic #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #Trippy #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Corrupted #Error #Errors #Computer #Tech #Databending #Abstract #AbstractArt #GIMP #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  6. Glitch Monalia

    I made this for a DeviantArt challenge back in 2022. We were supposed to do our own "fixes" of the Mona Lisa, and I thought I'd have my submission be a databending of the painting.

  7. Glitch Monalia

    I made this for a DeviantArt challenge back in 2022. We were supposed to do our own "fixes" of the Mona Lisa, and I thought I'd have my submission be a databending of the painting.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #PsychedelicArt #Trippy #DataBending #ArtHacking #Colorful #Colourful #MonaLisa #DaVinci #Classic #DigitalArt #Art #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  8. Glitch Monalia

    I made this for a DeviantArt challenge back in 2022. We were supposed to do our own "fixes" of the Mona Lisa, and I thought I'd have my submission be a databending of the painting.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #PsychedelicArt #Trippy #DataBending #ArtHacking #Colorful #Colourful #MonaLisa #DaVinci #Classic #DigitalArt #Art #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  9. Glitch Monalia

    I made this for a DeviantArt challenge back in 2022. We were supposed to do our own "fixes" of the Mona Lisa, and I thought I'd have my submission be a databending of the painting.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #PsychedelicArt #Trippy #DataBending #ArtHacking #Colorful #Colourful #MonaLisa #DaVinci #Classic #DigitalArt #Art #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  10. Glitch Monalia

    I made this for a DeviantArt challenge back in 2022. We were supposed to do our own "fixes" of the Mona Lisa, and I thought I'd have my submission be a databending of the painting.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Pixel #Pixels #PixelArt #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #PsychedelicArt #Trippy #DataBending #ArtHacking #Colorful #Colourful #MonaLisa #DaVinci #Classic #DigitalArt #Art #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  11. Erdbeer Liebe. Jetzt bei uns.

    Strawberry Love. Now available here.

    #dataBending #glitch

  12. sunrise databend

    if your feed is like mine today it's full of #bandcampfriday posts. so find yourself some music to fit this image and support some musicians. and feel free to share in the comments!

    #glitch #glitchlandscape #glitchart #sunrise #databending #clouds #skyscape

  13. This is a mixtape of my b sides tracks, unreleased and stuff being just posted temporary on soundcloud.

    https://v.basspistol.org/w/qyNShD7oYjdzPGMMhKVqWF

    I listened it last night again and I must say that I'm pleased with some ideas and it's as one friend said possibly a brighter edition of Rage Blanche.

    So here are some stories about the music, the tracks:
    1. - recorded from the first take while jamming on yamaha portasound's two different presets.
    2. this is a serious remix idea for a kind of summer vibe house track. i used ableton's stock samples and built in instruments, its just a scetch
    3. i love the moment of the nylon acoustic guitar ran through different pedals here.
    4. Somewhere in the Night
    (1946) a mildly interesting ol flick, but the moment which initiated this track was the sound of the movie from the docks which sounds like cellphone vibrating. Cellphone vibrating in 1946??? You get it.
    5. a ride with minibrute 1 but not in an agressive brute factor way but a chi led out, kind of moogy synth stuff.
    6. mostly fx by m-audio black box unit also arpeggiated korg monologue in some parts.

    7. 8. 9, 10, when i got yamaha csx-1, all the sounds are from there. a period when i also watched experimental movies and jammed along.
    11. This one hits hard. Several kicks which make a main theme, beat and a bunch of parts and hooks from instruments and distortions.
    12. Marshal McLuhan sampled from his famous lecture but what's more weird is Azra was also sampled. Not so well known song, but those violins... The beat is an attempt of old school electro stuff, but at this point it's not so well saturated, except the bass part later in the track.
    13, i hired a friend of mine to make guesses of the exact results of football matches and he was scoring 80% and more accurate. We never bet. But what I did is databended the excel file in various alghorythms through audacity and further played with the design.
    Some years before the big AI bang a guy appeared in a bar i was in that night and i don't know what started a story, when i explained him this concept work he said: "DO YOU WANT MONEY?"
    I said no. Of course. And then he was saying that AI is gonna change the world for the best possible way. That night and the whole conversation still has a kind of omen for me. Not related to not taking money but something else.

    Most of all, hope you do enjoy listening.
    #electronica #databending #jamsession #techno #harmonic #bsides
  14. This is a mixtape of my b sides tracks, unreleased and stuff being just posted temporary on soundcloud.

    https://v.basspistol.org/w/qyNShD7oYjdzPGMMhKVqWF

    I listened it last night again and I must say that I'm pleased with some ideas and it's as one friend said possibly a brighter edition of Rage Blanche.

    So here are some stories about the music, the tracks:
    1. - recorded from the first take while jamming on yamaha portasound's two different presets.
    2. this is a serious remix idea for a kind of summer vibe house track. i used ableton's stock samples and built in instruments, its just a scetch
    3. i love the moment of the nylon acoustic guitar ran through different pedals here.
    4. Somewhere in the Night
    (1946) a mildly interesting ol flick, but the moment which initiated this track was the sound of the movie from the docks which sounds like cellphone vibrating. Cellphone vibrating in 1946??? You get it.
    5. a ride with minibrute 1 but not in an agressive brute factor way but a chi led out, kind of moogy synth stuff.
    6. mostly fx by m-audio black box unit also arpeggiated korg monologue in some parts.

    7. 8. 9, 10, when i got yamaha csx-1, all the sounds are from there. a period when i also watched experimental movies and jammed along.
    11. This one hits hard. Several kicks which make a main theme, beat and a bunch of parts and hooks from instruments and distortions.
    12. Marshal McLuhan sampled from his famous lecture but what's more weird is Azra was also sampled. Not so well known song, but those violins... The beat is an attempt of old school electro stuff, but at this point it's not so well saturated, except the bass part later in the track.
    13, i hired a friend of mine to make guesses of the exact results of football matches and he was scoring 80% and more accurate. We never bet. But what I did is databended the excel file in various alghorythms through audacity and further played with the design.
    Some years before the big AI bang a guy appeared in a bar i was in that night and i don't know what started a story, when i explained him this concept work he said: "DO YOU WANT MONEY?"
    I said no. Of course. And then he was saying that AI is gonna change the world for the best possible way. That night and the whole conversation still has a kind of omen for me. Not related to not taking money but something else.

    Most of all, hope you do enjoy listening.
    #electronica #databending #jamsession #techno #harmonic #bsides
  15. This is a mixtape of my b sides tracks, unreleased and stuff being just posted temporary on soundcloud.

    https://v.basspistol.org/w/qyNShD7oYjdzPGMMhKVqWF

    I listened it last night again and I must say that I'm pleased with some ideas and it's as one friend said possibly a brighter edition of Rage Blanche.

    So here are some stories about the music, the tracks:
    1. - recorded from the first take while jamming on yamaha portasound's two different presets.
    2. this is a serious remix idea for a kind of summer vibe house track. i used ableton's stock samples and built in instruments, its just a scetch
    3. i love the moment of the nylon acoustic guitar ran through different pedals here.
    4. Somewhere in the Night
    (1946) a mildly interesting ol flick, but the moment which initiated this track was the sound of the movie from the docks which sounds like cellphone vibrating. Cellphone vibrating in 1946??? You get it.
    5. a ride with minibrute 1 but not in an agressive brute factor way but a chi led out, kind of moogy synth stuff.
    6. mostly fx by m-audio black box unit also arpeggiated korg monologue in some parts.

    7. 8. 9, 10, when i got yamaha csx-1, all the sounds are from there. a period when i also watched experimental movies and jammed along.
    11. This one hits hard. Several kicks which make a main theme, beat and a bunch of parts and hooks from instruments and distortions.
    12. Marshal McLuhan sampled from his famous lecture but what's more weird is Azra was also sampled. Not so well known song, but those violins... The beat is an attempt of old school electro stuff, but at this point it's not so well saturated, except the bass part later in the track.
    13, i hired a friend of mine to make guesses of the exact results of football matches and he was scoring 80% and more accurate. We never bet. But what I did is databended the excel file in various alghorythms through audacity and further played with the design.
    Some years before the big AI bang a guy appeared in a bar i was in that night and i don't know what started a story, when i explained him this concept work he said: "DO YOU WANT MONEY?"
    I said no. Of course. And then he was saying that AI is gonna change the world for the best possible way. That night and the whole conversation still has a kind of omen for me. Not related to not taking money but something else.

    Most of all, hope you do enjoy listening.
    #electronica #databending #jamsession #techno #harmonic #bsides
  16. This is a mixtape of my b sides tracks, unreleased and stuff being just posted temporary on soundcloud.

    https://v.basspistol.org/w/qyNShD7oYjdzPGMMhKVqWF

    I listened it last night again and I must say that I'm pleased with some ideas and it's as one friend said possibly a brighter edition of Rage Blanche.

    So here are some stories about the music, the tracks:
    1. - recorded from the first take while jamming on yamaha portasound's two different presets.
    2. this is a serious remix idea for a kind of summer vibe house track. i used ableton's stock samples and built in instruments, its just a scetch
    3. i love the moment of the nylon acoustic guitar ran through different pedals here.
    4. Somewhere in the Night
    (1946) a mildly interesting ol flick, but the moment which initiated this track was the sound of the movie from the docks which sounds like cellphone vibrating. Cellphone vibrating in 1946??? You get it.
    5. a ride with minibrute 1 but not in an agressive brute factor way but a chi led out, kind of moogy synth stuff.
    6. mostly fx by m-audio black box unit also arpeggiated korg monologue in some parts.

    7. 8. 9, 10, when i got yamaha csx-1, all the sounds are from there. a period when i also watched experimental movies and jammed along.
    11. This one hits hard. Several kicks which make a main theme, beat and a bunch of parts and hooks from instruments and distortions.
    12. Marshal McLuhan sampled from his famous lecture but what's more weird is Azra was also sampled. Not so well known song, but those violins... The beat is an attempt of old school electro stuff, but at this point it's not so well saturated, except the bass part later in the track.
    13, i hired a friend of mine to make guesses of the exact results of football matches and he was scoring 80% and more accurate. We never bet. But what I did is databended the excel file in various alghorythms through audacity and further played with the design.
    Some years before the big AI bang a guy appeared in a bar i was in that night and i don't know what started a story, when i explained him this concept work he said: "DO YOU WANT MONEY?"
    I said no. Of course. And then he was saying that AI is gonna change the world for the best possible way. That night and the whole conversation still has a kind of omen for me. Not related to not taking money but something else.

    Most of all, hope you do enjoy listening.
    #electronica #databending #jamsession #techno #harmonic #bsides
  17. This is a mixtape of my b sides tracks, unreleased and stuff being just posted temporary on soundcloud.

    https://v.basspistol.org/w/qyNShD7oYjdzPGMMhKVqWF

    I listened it last night again and I must say that I'm pleased with some ideas and it's as one friend said possibly a brighter edition of Rage Blanche.

    So here are some stories about the music, the tracks:
    1. - recorded from the first take while jamming on yamaha portasound's two different presets.
    2. this is a serious remix idea for a kind of summer vibe house track. i used ableton's stock samples and built in instruments, its just a scetch
    3. i love the moment of the nylon acoustic guitar ran through different pedals here.
    4. Somewhere in the Night
    (1946) a mildly interesting ol flick, but the moment which initiated this track was the sound of the movie from the docks which sounds like cellphone vibrating. Cellphone vibrating in 1946??? You get it.
    5. a ride with minibrute 1 but not in an agressive brute factor way but a chi led out, kind of moogy synth stuff.
    6. mostly fx by m-audio black box unit also arpeggiated korg monologue in some parts.

    7. 8. 9, 10, when i got yamaha csx-1, all the sounds are from there. a period when i also watched experimental movies and jammed along.
    11. This one hits hard. Several kicks which make a main theme, beat and a bunch of parts and hooks from instruments and distortions.
    12. Marshal McLuhan sampled from his famous lecture but what's more weird is Azra was also sampled. Not so well known song, but those violins... The beat is an attempt of old school electro stuff, but at this point it's not so well saturated, except the bass part later in the track.
    13, i hired a friend of mine to make guesses of the exact results of football matches and he was scoring 80% and more accurate. We never bet. But what I did is databended the excel file in various alghorythms through audacity and further played with the design.
    Some years before the big AI bang a guy appeared in a bar i was in that night and i don't know what started a story, when i explained him this concept work he said: "DO YOU WANT MONEY?"
    I said no. Of course. And then he was saying that AI is gonna change the world for the best possible way. That night and the whole conversation still has a kind of omen for me. Not related to not taking money but something else.

    Most of all, hope you do enjoy listening.
    #electronica #databending #jamsession #techno #harmonic #bsides
  18. way back in the day I released a dvd compilation of my video art. this is a short promo. I will put the full thing online in the coming days. lots of video databending and other weirdness.

    #glitch #glitchart #videoart #databending

    youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1QVwQLmZw

  19. way back in the day I released a dvd compilation of my video art. this is a short promo. I will put the full thing online in the coming days. lots of video databending and other weirdness.

    #glitch #glitchart #videoart #databending

    youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1QVwQLmZw

  20. way back in the day I released a dvd compilation of my video art. this is a short promo. I will put the full thing online in the coming days. lots of video databending and other weirdness.

    #glitch #glitchart #videoart #databending

    youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1QVwQLmZw

  21. way back in the day I released a dvd compilation of my video art. this is a short promo. I will put the full thing online in the coming days. lots of video databending and other weirdness.

    youtube.com/watch?v=Kq1QVwQLmZw

  22. Glitchy Grid

    This is the first "glitchy grid" I made, way back in 2023. I saw some amazing grid-based glitch art and wanted to emulate that aesthetic a bit. I didn't really succeed at that, but I got some images that still look cool.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #PsychedelicArt #Trippy #Abstract #AbstractArt #Matrix #Grid #AvantGarde #Experimental #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #GIMP #Databending #Complex #Complexity #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  23. Glitchy Grid

    This is the first "glitchy grid" I made, way back in 2023. I saw some amazing grid-based glitch art and wanted to emulate that aesthetic a bit. I didn't really succeed at that, but I got some images that still look cool.

  24. Glitchy Grid

    This is the first "glitchy grid" I made, way back in 2023. I saw some amazing grid-based glitch art and wanted to emulate that aesthetic a bit. I didn't really succeed at that, but I got some images that still look cool.

    #Glitch #GlitchArt #Glitchcore #Psychedelia #Psychedelic #PsychedelicArt #Trippy #Abstract #AbstractArt #Matrix #Grid #AvantGarde #Experimental #Digital #DigitalArt #Art #Artwork #GIMP #Databending #Complex #Complexity #MastoArt #ArtistOnMastodon

  25. sometimes an old memory pops into my mind and I think "was that this same lifetime?" and invariably it was.

    #glitch #glitchart #databending #digitalart

  26. As suggested by @oin I imported the jxr image into audacity (U-Law, default endianness). The image is only 256x256 but it's overstuffed with data (i.e. past its actual resolution) so the file size is around 300kb and means I can have much longer audio.

    Enjoy(?)

    #sonfication #databending #creativecoding #noise

  27. As suggested by @oin I imported the jxr image into audacity (U-Law, default endianness). The image is only 256x256 but it's overstuffed with data (i.e. past its actual resolution) so the file size is around 300kb and means I can have much longer audio.

    Enjoy(?)

    #sonfication #databending #creativecoding #noise

  28. As suggested by @oin I imported the jxr image into audacity (U-Law, default endianness). The image is only 256x256 but it's overstuffed with data (i.e. past its actual resolution) so the file size is around 300kb and means I can have much longer audio.

    Enjoy(?)

    #sonfication #databending #creativecoding #noise

  29. As suggested by @oin I imported the jxr image into audacity (U-Law, default endianness). The image is only 256x256 but it's overstuffed with data (i.e. past its actual resolution) so the file size is around 300kb and means I can have much longer audio.

    Enjoy(?)

    #sonfication #databending #creativecoding #noise

  30. As suggested by @oin I imported the jxr image into audacity (U-Law, default endianness). The image is only 256x256 but it's overstuffed with data (i.e. past its actual resolution) so the file size is around 300kb and means I can have much longer audio.

    Enjoy(?)

    #sonfication #databending #creativecoding #noise

  31. @gonzoart13 For Glitch, i follow these tags: #glitch #databending. I'm not sure if there's a dedicated server for Glitch.

    #Trichrome technique dates back to the era of analog photography. Digital simulation of this effect looks often like Glitch.

    The things I've posted over the last few days are based on #Slitscan technique. That's not very common. @hesselschut consistently publishes slit-scan images and animations.

  32. Looking Ahead: My Intentions For 2026

    About this time last year, I jotted down some intentions for 2025, ‘a few ideas of the things that I really want to do over the coming twelve months’. I did quite well with these: I resurrected a few old cameras, like the Kodak 1A and 3A folding cameras, and the Vest Pocket Kodak; I finally got to use the medium format half-frame beastie that’s the Bencini Koroll 2; and I actually used my only 127 film in the Purma Special on a 127 Day this year. I also tumbled down the rabbit hole that was the Rapid film system, which led to some great fun with colour emulsions, redscaling, and even trying some EBS photography, or exposing both sides of the emulsion, and of course I added a load more weird and wonderful cameras to my collection. 

    https://flic.kr/p/2rscu7a

    The only part of my ‘intentions’ for 2025 that I didn’t really get anywhere with was glitching; taking a perfectly good photograph in digital format and altering the data contained in it to produce a corrupted image. As a reminder, images can be glitched in a number of ways: with a Hex Editor, to alter details of individual pixels in an image; processing a digital photograph in a program not intended for editing image files; or using a script in a programming language to corrupt the file. This is known as databending, but there is also circuit bending, which either takes an image and corrupts it using a specially made image processor, or using a camera where the hardware within the camera has been physically altered so that the image saved to the card is corrupted. 

    A corrupted 3D image, taken with the Fujifilm W3 Real 3d stereo digital camera. The file has been databent by processing the file in the audio editing program Audacity.

    I already have one circuit bent camera, and also a couple of cameras with failing sensors that produce lovely glitchy images, but I’ve also recently obtained an old Digital8 video camera that I hope will allow me to use a circuit bent device called the Mismatcher Petite to corrupt digital images and videos. This year, I also picked up a scanner, the Epson Perfection v750 Pro flatbed scanner, and a little micro computer to use it with. Onto this computer I’ve loaded some of the programs and applications that I hope will aid me with databending and glitching.

    The Mismatcher Petite, an image modification device the I’ll use in conjunction with the Sony Digital8 camera below.

    I’ve not forgotten film, of course, and although I’m not really in a position to soup and develop my own films, perhaps I can ‘glitch’ some instant film, or deliberately introduce light leaks to exposed 35mm and medium format film, for instance. Of course,  there will always be new (to me) cameras to play with, and if last year is anything to go by, not all of these are light tight, and I have several rolls of expired film to use. With glitching, be it digital  or film, you never quite know what result you’ll get, and that for me is what will make the coming year so exciting. 

    A digital image taken with an Olympus Pen E-PL1 and a homemade Deakinizer (a wide-angle effect lens held reversed over the lens). The image has been databent by processing the image in the audio editor, Audacity.

    If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

    #Adapters #AgfaRapid #Cassette #CircuitBending #Databending #Experimental #Expired #Glitch #Inspiration #Intentions #LoFi #Motivation #Rapid #VintageCamera

  33. Looking Ahead: My Intentions For 2026

    About this time last year, I jotted down some intentions for 2025, ‘a few ideas of the things that I really want to do over the coming twelve months’. I did quite well with these: I resurrected a few old cameras, like the Kodak 1A and 3A folding cameras, and the Vest Pocket Kodak; I finally got to use the medium format half-frame beastie that’s the Bencini Koroll 2; and I actually used my only 127 film in the Purma Special on a 127 Day this year. I also tumbled down the rabbit hole that was the Rapid film system, which led to some great fun with colour emulsions, redscaling, and even trying some EBS photography, or exposing both sides of the emulsion, and of course I added a load more weird and wonderful cameras to my collection. 

    https://flic.kr/p/2rscu7a

    The only part of my ‘intentions’ for 2025 that I didn’t really get anywhere with was glitching; taking a perfectly good photograph in digital format and altering the data contained in it to produce a corrupted image. As a reminder, images can be glitched in a number of ways: with a Hex Editor, to alter details of individual pixels in an image; processing a digital photograph in a program not intended for editing image files; or using a script in a programming language to corrupt the file. This is known as databending, but there is also circuit bending, which either takes an image and corrupts it using a specially made image processor, or using a camera where the hardware within the camera has been physically altered so that the image saved to the card is corrupted. 

    A corrupted 3D image, taken with the Fujifilm W3 Real 3d stereo digital camera. The file has been databent by processing the file in the audio editing program Audacity.

    I already have one circuit bent camera, and also a couple of cameras with failing sensors that produce lovely glitchy images, but I’ve also recently obtained an old Digital8 video camera that I hope will allow me to use a circuit bent device called the Mismatcher Petite to corrupt digital images and videos. This year, I also picked up a scanner, the Epson Perfection v750 Pro flatbed scanner, and a little micro computer to use it with. Onto this computer I’ve loaded some of the programs and applications that I hope will aid me with databending and glitching.

    The Mismatcher Petite, an image modification device the I’ll use in conjunction with the Sony Digital8 camera below.

    I’ve not forgotten film, of course, and although I’m not really in a position to soup and develop my own films, perhaps I can ‘glitch’ some instant film, or deliberately introduce light leaks to exposed 35mm and medium format film, for instance. Of course,  there will always be new (to me) cameras to play with, and if last year is anything to go by, not all of these are light tight, and I have several rolls of expired film to use. With glitching, be it digital  or film, you never quite know what result you’ll get, and that for me is what will make the coming year so exciting. 

    A digital image taken with an Olympus Pen E-PL1 and a homemade Deakinizer (a wide-angle effect lens held reversed over the lens). The image has been databent by processing the image in the audio editor, Audacity.

    If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.

    #Adapters #AgfaRapid #Cassette #CircuitBending #Databending #Experimental #Expired #Glitch #Inspiration #Intentions #LoFi #Motivation #Rapid #VintageCamera

  34. Looking Ahead: My Intentions For 2026

    About this time last year, I jotted down some intentions for 2025, ‘a few ideas of the things that I really want to do over the coming twelve months’. I did quite well with these: I resurrected a few old cameras, like the Kodak 1A and 3A folding cameras, and the Vest Pocket Kodak; I finally got to use the medium format half-frame beastie that’s the Bencini Koroll 2; and I actually used my only 127 film in the Purma Special on a 127 Day this year. I also tumbled down the rabbit hole that was the Rapid film system, which led to some great fun with colour emulsions, redscaling, and even trying some EBS photography, or exposing both sides of the emulsion, and of course I added a load more weird and wonderful cameras to my collection. 

    https://flic.kr/p/2rscu7a

    The only part of my ‘intentions’ for 2025 that I didn’t really get anywhere with was glitching; taking a perfectly good photograph in digital format and altering the data contained in it to produce a corrupted image. As a reminder, images can be glitched in a number of ways: with a Hex Editor, to alter details of individual pixels in an image; processing a digital photograph in a program not intended for editing image files; or using a script in a programming language to corrupt the file. This is known as databending, but there is also circuit bending, which either takes an image and corrupts it using a specially made image processor, or using a camera where the hardware within the camera has been physically altered so that the image saved to the card is corrupted. 

    A corrupted 3D image, taken with the Fujifilm W3 Real 3d stereo digital camera. The file has been databent by processing the file in the audio editing program Audacity.

    I already have one circuit bent camera, and also a couple of cameras with failing sensors that produce lovely glitchy images, but I’ve also recently obtained an old Digital8 video camera that I hope will allow me to use a circuit bent device called the Mismatcher Petite to corrupt digital images and videos. This year, I also picked up a scanner, the Epson Perfection v750 Pro flatbed scanner, and a little micro computer to use it with. Onto this computer I’ve loaded some of the programs and applications that I hope will aid me with databending and glitching.

    The Mismatcher Petite, an image modification device the I’ll use in conjunction with the Sony Digital8 camera below.

    I’ve not forgotten film, of course, and although I’m not really in a position to soup and develop my own films, perhaps I can ‘glitch’ some instant film, or deliberately introduce light leaks to exposed 35mm and medium format film, for instance. Of course,  there will always be new (to me) cameras to play with, and if last year is anything to go by, not all of these are light tight, and I have several rolls of expired film to use. With glitching, be it digital  or film, you never quite know what result you’ll get, and that for me is what will make the coming year so exciting. 

    A digital image taken with an Olympus Pen E-PL1 and a homemade Deakinizer (a wide-angle effect lens held reversed over the lens). The image has been databent by processing the image in the audio editor, Audacity.

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