Michael Szpakowski
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if you have a moment


If you have a moment please take a look at this video work by first year students from University of Teesside.
I (and they) would be grateful for comments, if you're so inclined, which can be appreciative and/or critical
(although I would moderate out anything that was wholly damning)

http://www.teesart.org/

thanks
michael


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Pixel Bleed


Hi Millie
I think what happened was I was messing around with the compression and some totally unrelated colours appeared ( this seems to happen at the lowest end of Sorenson 3), which I then ran with - I remember lots of cutting and pasting.
I *was* deliberately seeking out a kind of lo-fi quality - hence the fairly small base of clips and the rather random cutting, but the effect itself came as a pleasant surprise.
I totally agree about the creative use of error. It's worth reading the motionographer link from the first reply in this thread - I found it both technically fascinating and aesthetically very depressing - it's as if ( especially in the commerce led arena of the music video) every glitch has to be *tamed*, rendered predictable and furthermore, as a couple of other folk have bemoaned here, that the domesticated glitch itself *as technique* then becomes the subject matter ( I'm not saying this should never happen -there's a perfectly respectable genre of 'the study', just that 9/10 times the result is as dull as one would expect)
michael

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Pixel Bleed


I made this in Oct/Nov 2003:

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/poem.mov

no sophisticated procedures, just messing around with very low quality & data rate settings.
It occurs to me that a lot of us who have been obsessing about video on the net since before it was fashionable came across of good many of these sorts of things as a by product of learning-on-the-job without a lot of precedent to guide us, plus the need to compress for the large number who were then still on dial up (remember 5k.org?)

This piece, from early 2006, benefitted from a compression glitch which generated the rather lovely colour:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/portrait_of_amanda_congdon.mov

michael