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1. Nes sprite stuck in Adobe

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1 year ago

This video is made with the help of a collection of failing hard drive sounds, while the video is a combination of failed pdf screengrap videos (by me).
It is the first time I made a (kind of) music video-thing all on my own. I didnt use any software except for firefox and quicktime - so not a 100% open source, I am sorry for you software-fashionista people ...
but it is very lo-fi! -if that makes it better.
So I dare you to make the music (a lot) better and then I promis I will do the video part better as well...

datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php

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_blank 11 months ago

The images are beautiful, and I like the sound also. Sometimes when you are not an expert (I've read on your blog that you don't know much about music software) you get really interesting things, maybe by chance or maybe just because your views are different when you don't master something.
Ross Phillips 11 months ago

really nice stuff. How did you do it exactly?
rosa menkman 11 months ago

I wanted to make a video of the biggest pdf I have, it is 1000 pages and very heavy and when I scroll through it very fast, the letters disappear and you only see black and white abstract forms. So I used a screen video software and filmed what I saw, but when I finished this and I opened the 2 films I made, something else really weird happened. They both were, instead of black and white, coloured; the black and white forms changed into very slow moving colored blocks.. A real magical and unexplainable glitch. (but, my pc does this kind of things sometimes, he has a will of its own)
When I found the website of the failing harddrive sounds I decided to make some music for the pdfs, but as I wrote down I am not a composer, and I dont know music composing software, I just opened up the samples in a lot of firefox windows and used this to turn them on and of...
And then I loaded the pdfs in my vj program, made a live video form them, just inverting the colours and keying some other colors away and letting them move a bit faster and slower (the normal, not really intervening stuff) and used that as a live film for the music - so that is not edited.
That is the complete process for you mr Philips.
jacob 9 months ago

wow this is a very interesting process - thanks for sharing!
Flourish Klink 11 months ago

I really love this video - I think that the fact that you're not an expert makes it better - it reminds me of that moment of fear when things have failed and you are suddenly faced with the terror of a blank canvas (hard drive)!
clint enns 9 months ago

this is really really wonderful!
rosa menkman 9 months ago

Thanks Flourish and Clint! :)
cym 9 months ago

Rosa, very nice video! And nice to find you here :-)
Ariane Vee 8 months ago

Wowowow.

I'm so jealous.

What was the screen video software you used?
rosa menkman 8 months ago

Hey, i use modul8 to vj, so thats what i used to put the layers on top of eachother.
Ariane Vee 8 months ago

Ah, damn. Only for Macs.

But thanks for the reply! :D
rosa menkman 8 months ago

but eveything i did witht the video can definately be done with any vj software around.. its only keying and moving the pace.
MFV / AVANT MODE 8 months ago

That was a nice motherboard-esque diorama. I enjoyed the progression of artifacts that moseyed on by.
Emilio Gomariz 8 months ago

great work! i love it.
BpOlar 5 months ago

nice job ...
Eyes_For_Ears 5 months ago

cool mosh°°
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sebastian tomczak 5 months ago

Amazing video, I love it. And I really love your approach to it. Thanks so much for explaining the process.
NAUSSICA_aka_TELLEMAC 4 months ago

i have tried your technic with the pdf and: on my pc at work:)) it works just amazing, but on my power book it doesnt f... change at all. it seems like the computer is just to powerfull, and there are no glitches-the pdf was f... big-1giga, now i am making a pdf from 9 thousand pictures, hope to get this effect which i had on my pc.
cevitts 21 days ago

mondrian tv,i love it