by Henry Kaye on August 20, 2014
Applause to Andrew Benson for making this rainbow glitch sludge GIF.
This is somewhat of a departure from his wolf and unicorn blog we posted about a few months ago, but there’s a few thematic similarities. For one, there’s the pastel color palette interrupted with darker themes of violence, death, or in this case raw sewage. Also, his Flow website seems on message too, in that it’s a platform to melt faces.
Either way, we embrace the darkness.
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by Whitney Kimball on April 15, 2014
We just spent twenty minutes playing with Andrew Benson’s brand new visual distorter/webcam feature Flow Cam. I made my own Marilyn Minter! You can too.
Animal’s Marina Galperina has talked to Benson about the effect which is not, in fact, datamoshing.
“It uses per-pixel motion analysis (optical flow) with a little conditioning as a control signal for image distortion,” Benson tells her. “Similar to how mpeg/divx works, but not based on that tech. It’s a kind of video feedback effect.”
And if you really want to melt your face off become one with the digital, make a GIF of yourself and then run that GIF through the gif melter. But be warned! It’s probably not good for those prone to seizures.
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