This weeks glitch was created from one of my ‘faux pas photoshop’ images, which I then decided to break, now usually this results in something similar to the image from last week. What I like however about breaking someting, is that occasionally it just does something completely unexpected. So for example this time it sort of turned the wave image into some weird pixelized drawing. Quite interesting..

Another interesting thing about glitches, is when I often try to directly upload the glitched file to my blog, or open the file in photoshop, it corrects itself. Like there is some programming in there that says, fix those broken strings! So I often end up having to find another way to preserve the file. Computers seemingly designed to fix things, but yet so many errors can still occur, and beauty be found within it. It is a human thing to constantly strive for perfection, but why? Often the most beautiful or interesting things are those that go wrong, after all, the human being is likely a mutation. The world was possibly created by a freak incident, an error. Error creates interest, we should stop striving to obliterate it.

I have a massive love of mistakes and glitches within visuals, I am fascinated by the tiny nuances that can go wrong with a file and how visuals can look corrupted and broken up, yet still often be recognizable. I’m going to start something called the weekly glitch, I often mess around with files to corrupt them/break them. (Strange hobby I know) and also created my animated alphabet using tracking to mess up old VHS videos. From now on once a week, I will devote some time to messing something up in some way or form.

Glitch #1

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