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How The Social Network Soundtrack Glitch Artwork Was Made

50 points by some1else 16y ago

d_r 16y ago
...this time I actually destroyed images by opening them up in a text editor and adding/removing text to their raw code. Fuzzing used to create art! (Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing)
- terhechte 16y ago
  I love that idea. I used to create music samples utilizing random text in samples files, years ago when 8bit trackers were still fancy. Since you can't control / predict the outcome, you also can't subconsciously influence it based on standard cultural artifacts (i.e the interesting sound / track you just heard on the radio). This in turn leads to very innovative results.
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utunga 16y ago
.. if you want tutorials on how to create 'glitch art' for yourself, look here: http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/ http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/ .. including, for example, 'sonification' which is basically just opening a visual bitmap in audio editing software and seeing what happens when you mess with it and save it back (without stuffing up the headers) -- Fair warning: Dan is my co-worker, a programmer and a neat guy
rmorrison 16y ago
Rob Sheridan has been doing a lot of the artwork for Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the past several years. He's extremely talented, and I highly recommend looking through some of his other work, which you can find on his portfolio at http://rob-sheridan.com http://rob-sheridan.com He's also filmed several of the last Nine Inch Nails concerts in HD from on stage. If you're a fan, there are several on Vimeo, like: http://vimeo.com/5133409 http://vimeo.com/5133409
- endtime 16y ago
  Related AMA from reddit a couple weeks ago: http://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ey5e5/i_am_rob_sheridan_creative_director_for_nine_inch/ http://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ey5e5/i_am_rob_sheridan_cr...
exit 16y ago
reminds me a bit of gerhard richter paintings
jh3 16y ago
Here's a line of perl that will corrupt images: perl -pi -e 's/c/awesome/g' pic.jpg Mess around with the search and replacement patterns for different results. For some reason I really like these types of images even if they don't take much to create. Great soundtrack too.
dmotz 16y ago
You can try a similar effect by downloading a torrent of images and opening the files while they're partially completed.

50 points by some1else 16y ago

d_r 16y ago

...this time I actually destroyed images by opening them up in a text editor and adding/removing text to their raw code. Fuzzing used to create art! (Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing)

terhechte 16y ago
I love that idea. I used to create music samples utilizing random text in samples files, years ago when 8bit trackers were still fancy. Since you can't control / predict the outcome, you also can't subconsciously influence it based on standard cultural artifacts (i.e the interesting sound / track you just heard on the radio). This in turn leads to very innovative results.

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utunga 16y ago

.. if you want tutorials on how to create 'glitch art' for yourself, look here: http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/ http://danieltemkin.com/Tutorials/ .. including, for example, 'sonification' which is basically just opening a visual bitmap in audio editing software and seeing what happens when you mess with it and save it back (without stuffing up the headers) -- Fair warning: Dan is my co-worker, a programmer and a neat guy

rmorrison 16y ago

Rob Sheridan has been doing a lot of the artwork for Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the past several years. He's extremely talented, and I highly recommend looking through some of his other work, which you can find on his portfolio at http://rob-sheridan.com http://rob-sheridan.com He's also filmed several of the last Nine Inch Nails concerts in HD from on stage. If you're a fan, there are several on Vimeo, like: http://vimeo.com/5133409 http://vimeo.com/5133409

endtime 16y ago
Related AMA from reddit a couple weeks ago: http://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ey5e5/i_am_rob_sheridan_creative_director_for_nine_inch/ http://reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ey5e5/i_am_rob_sheridan_cr...

exit 16y ago

reminds me a bit of gerhard richter paintings

jh3 16y ago

Here's a line of perl that will corrupt images: perl -pi -e 's/c/awesome/g' pic.jpg Mess around with the search and replacement patterns for different results. For some reason I really like these types of images even if they don't take much to create. Great soundtrack too.

dmotz 16y ago

You can try a similar effect by downloading a torrent of images and opening the files while they're partially completed.