re-mix bad cops

The purpose of this video is to focus on the dark side of law enforcement. People will always assume police officers are always going to do whats right. But within a different  social construction of reality some police officers tend to do what they want to do. This video shows the abuse of their lawful powers. I borrowed the introduction of the reality tv show cops and used an episode of Seinfeld with two other candid clips of cops abusing their powers. This video shows that their are not only good cops in the world but also bad cops as well.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbFBgk1b0rg
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwWWgGjClw
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3QTH_sEeI
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFzGUFoNWkg

Welcome To The Future

Welcome To The Future from Mark Sniadecki on Vimeo.

A YouTube remix about the inconstancy of technological relevance, and how today's sleek and stylish machine is invariably tomorrow's sputtering gadget. Sometime, a hundred years from now maybe, all technology will be indistinguishable from clear water. Just going to throw that out there.

I selected my videos based on three criteria: the most modern examples of high technology (of which the iPhone is the primary icon), vintage videos lauding what were then current technological advances, and humorously conjectural videos from the past (in the form of the Jetsons, and Tex Avery's "world of tomorrow" cartoons). The audio/video splices were mostly done with juxtaposition in mind, with the vintage audio laying under the new, slickly-produced commerical video. But that was not a hard and fast rule, and in some places it was simply placed where it felt most appropriate.

Source videos:
youtu.be/zhuOpRhhn2I
youtu.be/1npzZu83AfU
youtu.be/u5X5cV-4LRo
youtu.be/gV0Ralac0w4
youtu.be/cWm5DhtverU
youtu.be/dH5ONdVf7aU
youtu.be/EC5sbdvnvQM
youtu.be/EtVIh0bh-Sc

Sweet Brown Percolates a Tumble.

sweet brown from Michael Nespo on Vimeo.

For this project I chose to take some popular Youtube videos that went viral and mix them up with one of my favorite songs, Percolator by Cajmere. I started off with longer edits and then by the end of the piece the edits get a little faster to give it a certain rhythm. I had alot of fun editing this piece. Especially the video, Scarlet Takes a Tumble, which was allover youtube and facebook when it first came out. I also wanted to use the edits to make a more humorous storyline than the original videos.

My Iphone 5 Review

For this assignment I chose to basically create a satire mocking the new iphone 5 and all the madness being shown through media about it. I decided to do this because lately I feel like all I've been reading about online (ESPECIALLY in my facebook newsfeed) is something to do with apple or iphone 5. This is funny to me because from what I've observed everyone wants it because it is "faster" or because it has a completely new design (...except not really), or because it is just BETTER.

I feel like what connects a lot of apple fanboys and girls, is the fact that they like it simply because it is an apple product. Which is I guess what I was trying to say through the video.

Droid has had faster, new designs, bigger screens, etc for years now, and apple is always playing catch up with the iphone because they only release a new iphone once a year. That, is the exact reason people go crazy over the new iphone, it only happens once a year and it is an apple product. What diehard apple iphone users sometimes fail to realize is that, like EVERY other cell phone, the iphone has its flaws, downfalls, etc.

In the video I basically wanted to sarcastically point out all the "new" additions to the iphone, that have already been released for a while by other cell phone manufacturers, and then point out the current flaws that people have been having with it. I want to point out too, that this is mostly for fun, and I do obviously use apple products, I think apple is great, but the madness that ensues when apple releases things, is really comical to me. :)



here are the links to the videos I used:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLiG5oXrkCw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMsLArefSOw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk6nVez2vi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w091VjM-bO4&feature=context-shows&list=SL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1TKF7HfEM&feature=BFa&list=CLLHsCTMOkjnU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wHWwG5IhWc&feature=related





Iphone5 review from Katie Nestorovich on Vimeo.

Tricky Dick's Purdie Shuffle

Our assignment for FINA-A399 was to download video clips from YouTube and create a remix or database video that reveals new connection, new perspectives, new commentary on the material we choose to download.

I chose the Nixon "I am not a crook" speech and remixed it over a clip from The Original Purdie Shuffle. The Tricky Dick story is one wrought with covert shades of grey and bold faced lies and presented to us in the typical arrogant American fashion. Most people will simply dismiss it as either political bullshit or tout it as a divine truth (to each his/her own, I'm impartial), but what's so terribly sweet about it, though, is the political shuffle, or delivery technique, if you will. It's not a hard cut per say, but rather a culmination of subtle components that make up a political speech, position, or ideal. So... I wanted to lay it down over something else that was terribly sweet, yet subtly complex. Enter the Purdie Shuffle. Bernard Purdie is a nutter, no doubt, but he's also rhythmic genius. His ability to layer so many rhythmic components (licks, timing signatures, etc.) into his "Purdie Shuffle" is absolutely astounding and even more so to hear. But the beauty to me is in the breakdown, which is what his video is about.
So I set out to play, interspersing and dissecting the Nixon speech over the Purdie Shuffle excerpt. I just let Bernard do his thing instead of taking a clip from his explanatory phase, which let's us focus more on Nixon's speech. And in typical Josh fashion (that's me), I go ahead and cut out the word "not" from Nixon's speech. Political Speaking 101: anytime you use the word "not" in a speech, you decrease your credibility/truth value with each use. And in retrospect, we can now accurately ascertain the facts of the matter, so let's just say that I'm doing old Tricky Dick a funny favor by helping him clean up his shuffle.

How do these videos speak to the Internet, the people that are posting, and our video culture?
Y'know, I'm not really thinking that this is strictly an Internet discussion, it's more of a analytical comparison of 2 videos that just happened to be obtained from the Internet. And that will more than likely be a very similar case for everyone else. Truly "original" internet video content is bound by a very short, very recent time span. And even that is limited, considering the majority share of Internet video is either some for a media translation from an pre-existing external format (as my two source videos are) or remixes thereof (either like my remix video or others that might potentially be interspersed with original Internet video content).
As far as the people posting them, the Nixon video uploader's playlist is loaded with political clips, so it's probably fair to say that he finds something of either personal or greater social value in this clip that he feels is worth re-sharing with the masses, in respect to politics. The Purdie Shuffle video uploader's playlist is also chocked full of similar clips, with drumming being the focus, so there again I'll have to say that he finds something of either personal or greater social value in this clip that he feels is worth re-sharing with the masses, but in respect to drumming.
As far as video culture itself is concerned, I'm going to simply say that seeing isn't so much believing, but rather reinforcing. The utilization of the audio media alone would be enough to sell both of the original source videos, but the visual imagery gives us more sensory perception, and thus a greater depth of material for reception and interpretation. And in the words of the digital generation, more is better. I personally disagree with that statement, but that's a discussion for another time...

Source Videos:
Richard Nixon - "I'm not a crook" [HIGHER QUALITY - FULL VERSION] 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh163n1lJ4M
The Real "Purdie" Shuffle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DsNo4KB6Y

Also, Vimeo wouldn't embed my remix video on this blog; it either just gave me just the link (as below) or a bunch of html code that never integrated into the code level.  Also, Vimeo downloaded my video into a widescreen setting, so there are nasty black bars on the sides of it.  I'm hoping that the embedded post from my Youtube account will suffice, but if not, this is the link to the Vimeo post:
https://vimeo.com/50452260

Circuit Frustration... Beyond Bent - Resolution

Leach Johnny No5 mixdown

Glitchbook

When I think about how I interact with others in the digital realm it seemed very obvious (maybe too obvious) that I should use an image of my Facebook Newsfeed.  Facebook has almost taken over the internet. Even to make a soundcloud and photobucket profiles I signed up with my Facebook account and the websites automatically linked me to my Facebook friends.  So even away from the main Facebook page, Facebook links me to my friends and our hobbies in the digital realm.  Disrupting this image shows us that our "personal" interactions on Facebook are really just a combination of data.  This is interesting because face to face interaction can't really be disrupted because there is no middle-man interpreting our words and signals but when interacting through Facebook there is something working to interpret our interactions for us.

I glitched a screenshot of my Facebook Newsfeed by changing the text in TextEditor and importing the photo to Audacity.  The different images seen in the animated GIF are a mixture and combination of those two data moshings.  I also imported a severely glitched photo into Audacity and saved it as an audio file to go along with the GIF.

Destroyed meaning: I broke facebook

I've actually heard people admit they would die without facebook...

                                                                       ...so I did this.

Destroyed meaning games

One of the way I communicate in the digital realm with my xbox 360. I use it speak with friends who are only houses of over or miles away. I did something a little different this time normally I glitch on my labtop which is a pc however this time I tried it on  a mac which was a bit easier to glitch on. I recommend it to anyone who has a pc and hasn't tried it yet. I got the mostly used the find and replace to glitch this time. I tried to put them together in a gif but photoshop couldn't read them. I gathered all some of the accessories used for xbox along with to it to show the different ways in which commuciation is held on an game system.

 

 

 

 

 

Destroyed Meaning

For this assignment, I first picked my images (an outdoor scene, facebook, gmail) and layered them. I then saved the image and glitched it. I think today we are so wrapped up in technology that sometimes we miss so much. Every time a technological element glitches we need to calm down and realize that it is only a machine. In today's world we are so caught up with what is next and what is new, and we stray from all that we have now. I simply think we need to slow down every once in a while. 

Destroyed Meaning: Adobe

destroyed meaning

For this assignment i was trying to datamosh two movie clips. Didn't work out as planned not sure what i did wrong. I was trying to moosh a movie clip that i made from a previous  tel-com class last year that involved a dancing robot with a you tube clip that involved Charlie Chaplin. But instead i decided to take the picture clips and put them in a collage changed the file to bmp and messed around with it on word pad.

Destroyed Meaning

Behold! (The Lion) from Mark Sniadecki on Vimeo.

The great cat grooms to smooth his appearance, to order his body, with the ultimate intention of becoming the sleeker hunter. In this piece I am constantly frustrating that effort, and the more insistently he works to tame the image, the greater his form is fractured. It becomes a sideshow for us, something outside the boundaries of well-computed thought, a glimpse into the chaos beneath the composed exterior.

Interface

Destroyed meaning... or is it?

How do I exist, with others, in a digital realm?  Not too comfortably, I assure you.  It's not that I don't get it or that I'm not on the curve, but rather that I'm too aware of it.  I'm aware of the digital world's imperfections and how we let it overconsistently use and abuse us; damaging senses, perceptions, emotions, etc. all in the pursuit of something "easier."  But I'm a tolerant person; I can understand and appreciate it while completely disagreeing with it.  So much so that I've chosen to pursue a career in the digital field.  Long before we were ruled by the almighty 0's and 1's we were ruled by the almighty dollar; something so terribly powerful that it commands the respect of everyone in the civilized world, and thus I will let my career be dictated by both.

 

All of this existential survivalist crap aside, I took my inspirations from my compressed / hidden rage I feel for the digital realm.  I gathered images of damaged sensory organs, communicative appendages and extension in use, images of expressive digital usage rage, and created rage memes and wordpad-ed them to initially glitch them.  Then I placed them in a collage.  Satisfaction level: meh.



 

But that was only a false realization.  So I interrupted them and reassembled them, so what?  The digital realm is constantly in a varying state of flex; a never ending pursuit of composition and decomposition.  So why not push that too?  I took the collage, and then I rotated-wordpaded-flipped-wordpaded-etc. to make further glitching of this collage, creating a sequence of decay.  And finally, to mimic the constant flex, I drew numbers out of a hat (a very old school "analog" glitch creator!) and sequenced them into a .gif, letting the various states of the collage flex in and out of random states of glitchedness (I may or may not have just made that last word up, but I think by now, we all understand what I'm trying to say), much like the digital realm.  Satisfaction level: copacetic.

 

Now for the big enchilada: "How have these interruptions in discourse changed the conversation?"  Honestly, I think all it has done is made the message come full circle.  I am enraged by what the digital realm communicates on several levels but I do what I have to to mask it.  These applied "interruptions" give another dimension to my frustration and create something that fully encompasses those ideas and expresses them in a completely different, yet all to familiar way.

Pop Glitch

For this project I thought it would be interesting to take a piece of artwork that I enjoy and reconstruct it using fragments of the glitch photos that I created from the last glitch project. I colorized the different fragments and put the Marilyn together like a mosaic tile. 

make a gif

Destroy the meaning

I experienced many glitches while conducting this project, and not very artistic ones at that. But lets begin with the concept... My cell phone is my life, as is the cell phone for many other people in society. I see myself and others existing in a digital realm through communication through cellular devices. Whether it be voice calling, text messaging, social networking, or surfing internet information, cell phones are a big deal. I wanted to use glitched images of my cell phone and an audio track made from these images to portray cell phones going wrong (which would be the end of life as I know it). However, I wanted to show these images in an animated gif format with my created, glitched audio playing, but experienced some unintentional/unwanted glitches in the process. 

 

The Static Noise of Advertising

For this assignment I mainly thought about the ways in which advertising (online, and print) communicates messages to us. From there, I took the direction of ads aimed towards women, that usually depict an unattainable goal, since the visuals we see are highly manipulated. Ads such as diets, beauty, clothing, makeup, even food/drink ones are all essentially brain washing their target audience to want to be something that isn't even real.

After seeing these sorts of ads for so many years and having them all send essentially the same messages...'buy this product if you want to look like this size zero model!', I really have began to think of them all as one blur of annoying static noise. So, I have created a series of three glitched pieces, and one base piece that I created in photoshop.

The base has many components, I took a photo of myself and put that as the bottom layer, basically to represent the consumer viewing all of this noise, then I took many different types of advertisements and made a collage/layered those on top of one another, changing the opacity on each layer.

From there I took the base piece into text edit and used find and replace to glitch it. I tried to have the first glitched piece be the least glitched (while still being unrecognizable), and the other two more glitched than the last.

The result was a visual representation of the overwhelming noise of ads that are thrown at us from many places, every day. I also tried to take my glitched pieces back into photo shop to edit them even more, but I had ruined the code so much that photo shop couldn't recognize it as a file anymore.

Glitching

Just some of the basic pictures you get when on a pc until I glitched them. I also add some of pictures of Bugs and Daffy.

 

The Wonderful World of Gli.tc/h/

I took these photographs as a campus wide architecture survey; they were augmented via wordpad processing.

I took these photographs as a part of a magazine spread assignment for Chipotle; these were also augmented via wordpad processing.

 

This was a photoshopped self portrait collage project; it was also augmented via wordpad processing.

 

 

glitch exploration

This is the site i used to create my glitches. I had some fun with this http://www.airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/imageglitcher/