December 15, 2012

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Blue Lake No. 2

HD video of reflections off the surface of Monroe Harbor in Chicago, IL processed in Audacity, scrubbed in Quicktime 7 Pro.

December 14, 2012
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Blue Lake No. 1
HD video of reflections off the surface of Monroe Harbor in Chicago, IL processed in Audacity, scrubbed in Quicktime 7 Pro.

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Blue Lake No. 1

HD video of reflections off the surface of Monroe Harbor in Chicago, IL processed in Audacity, scrubbed in Quicktime 7 Pro.

October 10, 2012

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A Thousand Sparkling Anuses (Charmin Color Palette Study) No. 2

Colors sampled from the Proctor and Gamble Charmin brand website were used to generate a simple “click and drag” gradient, which was then exported in various file formats.  The toxic shores above are selected 352x198pi crops of an image that resulted from GIF data corruption.

“In February 2009,[4]Greenpeace advised consumers not to use Charmin toilet paper stating that it does not use recycled paper and uses ECF bleaching.[5]” — source: Wikipedia

September 3, 2012
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Bad Negatives 2
Created from a handful of scans on 35mm film negatives, animated, exported as an MP4, databent, exported as stills, reanimated, indexed using a different color palette.

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Bad Negatives 2

Created from a handful of scans on 35mm film negatives, animated, exported as an MP4, databent, exported as stills, reanimated, indexed using a different color palette.

September 1, 2012

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This is Exactly What it Looks Like

Crops from a frame in a broken 1-1-6 H.264 encoded HD video file shot using a Canon 60D.

August 31, 2012
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This is Exactly What it Looks Like
Crops from a frame in a broken 1-1-6 H.264 encoded HD video file shot using a Canon 60D.

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This is Exactly What it Looks Like

Crops from a frame in a broken 1-1-6 H.264 encoded HD video file shot using a Canon 60D.

August 30, 2012

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This is Exactly What it Looks Like

Crops from a frame in a broken 1-1-6 H.264 encoded HD video file shot using a Canon 60D.

August 29, 2012
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This is Exactly What it Looks Like
Crops from a frame in a broken 1-1-6 H.264 encoded HD video file shot using a Canon 60D.

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This is Exactly What it Looks Like

Crops from a frame in a broken 1-1-6 H.264 encoded HD video file shot using a Canon 60D.

August 28, 2012

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This is Exactly What it Looks Like

Crops from a frame in a broken 1-1-6 H.264 encoded HD video file shot using a Canon 60D.

August 27, 2012

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Extended techniques for Digital Photography: CR2 Bending

480x320px crops from an 8mp databent CR2 image file.  Imported using GIMP RAW image utility.

August 22, 2012
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Gradients from Gradients (Bank of America Website Palette) no. 5
Recipe:
Create a palette from a corporate website by manually extracting color tags for all elements in the HTML/CSS
Create a gradient using that palette and save as an image
Open the gradient image in viewer
Zoom in and take screen shots while moving the image
Create animation from screen shots and index using the original color palette and a Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
Convert to MP4
Databend MP4 file
Open in Quicktime and take screen shots of interesting frames
Export as a new MP4
Repeat steps 7-9 until you have enough shots to work with
Select your favorites, crop, scale, re-glitch, etc.

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Gradients from Gradients (Bank of America Website Palette) no. 5

Recipe:

  1. Create a palette from a corporate website by manually extracting color tags for all elements in the HTML/CSS
  2. Create a gradient using that palette and save as an image
  3. Open the gradient image in viewer
  4. Zoom in and take screen shots while moving the image
  5. Create animation from screen shots and index using the original color palette and a Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
  6. Convert to MP4
  7. Databend MP4 file
  8. Open in Quicktime and take screen shots of interesting frames
  9. Export as a new MP4
  10. Repeat steps 7-9 until you have enough shots to work with
  11. Select your favorites, crop, scale, re-glitch, etc.

August 21, 2012

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Gradients from Gradients (Chase Bank Website Palette) no. 4

Recipe:

  1. Create a palette from a corporate website by manually extracting color tags for all elements in the HTML/CSS
  2. Create a gradient using that palette and save as an image
  3. Open the gradient image in viewer
  4. Zoom in and take screen shots while moving the image
  5. Create animation from screen shots and index using the original color palette and a Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
  6. Convert to MP4
  7. Databend MP4 file
  8. Open in Quicktime and take screen shots of interesting frames
  9. Export as a new MP4
  10. Repeat steps 7-9 until you have enough shots to work with
  11. Select your favorites, crop, scale, re-glitch, etc.

August 20, 2012

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Gradients from Gradients (Chase Bank Website Palette) no. 3

Recipe:

  1. Create a palette from a corporate website by manually extracting color tags for all elements in the HTML/CSS
  2. Create a gradient using that palette and save as an image
  3. Open the gradient image in viewer
  4. Zoom in and take screen shots while moving the image
  5. Create animation from screen shots and index using the original color palette and a Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
  6. Convert to MP4
  7. Databend MP4 file
  8. Open in Quicktime and take screen shots of interesting frames
  9. Export as a new MP4
  10. Repeat steps 7-9 until you have enough shots to work with
  11. Select your favorites, crop, scale, re-glitch, etc.

August 19, 2012
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Gradients from Gradients (Chase Bank Website Palette) no. 2
Recipe:
Create a palette from a corporate website by manually extracting color tags for all elements in the HTML/CSS
Create a gradient using that palette and save as an image
Open the gradient image in viewer
Zoom in and take screen shots while moving the image
Create animation from screen shots and index using the original color palette and a Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
Convert to MP4
Databend MP4 file
Open in Quicktime and take screen shots of interesting frames
Export as a new MP4
Repeat steps 7-9 until you have enough shots to work with
Select your favorites, crop, scale, re-glitch, etc.

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Gradients from Gradients (Chase Bank Website Palette) no. 2

Recipe:

  1. Create a palette from a corporate website by manually extracting color tags for all elements in the HTML/CSS
  2. Create a gradient using that palette and save as an image
  3. Open the gradient image in viewer
  4. Zoom in and take screen shots while moving the image
  5. Create animation from screen shots and index using the original color palette and a Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm
  6. Convert to MP4
  7. Databend MP4 file
  8. Open in Quicktime and take screen shots of interesting frames
  9. Export as a new MP4
  10. Repeat steps 7-9 until you have enough shots to work with
  11. Select your favorites, crop, scale, re-glitch, etc.

July 12, 2012
phillipstearns:

basilthegoat:

DCP_0004 by Phillip Stearns on Flickr.

Some older work with the Kodak DC series digital cameras that I recently posted on flickr looks like its making its way onto tumblr!

phillipstearns:

basilthegoat:

DCP_0004 by Phillip Stearns on Flickr.

Some older work with the Kodak DC series digital cameras that I recently posted on flickr looks like its making its way onto tumblr!