databend

  • What Glitch? scripts

    For the What is Your Glitch? videos I wanted to build up on some of the extensive work that has already gone into the documentation, deconstruction and glitching of file formats. Rosa Menkman has already done a great job of documenting some of the more well-known file format glitches in the Vernacular of File…

  • What is your glitch?

    A series of videos exploring the types of glitches and compression artefacts available from different image and video file formats. Audio by defaultxr anddomesticflight A collection of the scripts used to create these videos will be available shortly

  • Dataface

    After months of hard work I’m happy to finally release Dataface Special thanks go to various hackers at fizzPOP for all of their help, GB for programming help and Scribbleboy for general guidance. You can view of preview of the font here on Flickr. There will soon be a lovely writeup of how it…

  • Dataface update

    Dataface is coming along rather nicely! It looks different from my previous updates as I’m using a different method for glitching the typeface. This may change yet again if a script that I’m working on decides to work.

  • Interpretations of Reality

    On 8th April I took a self-prescribed zine making day. Ever since the Gallery Of Owls meetup last year I’ve been increasingly interested in zines as a means of communication and the DIY scene as a whole. After many failed ideas I finally settled on showing the journey of a pixel and how it…

  • Glitched Badges

    Badges from my video are now available from the Created in Birmingham shop! This marks somewhat of a new shift for me as it’s the second time that I’ve taken glitch off the screen and into a more physical form. I do like that when I sent the images to print I received this…

  • Dataface update

    You may remember from my earlier blog post that I’ve been working on a databent typeface. It was mentioned a fair while back now, but I have been doing bits of work on it every now and then. Here’s a bit of my progress so far: Ass you can see some of the characters…

  • Echobender

    Myself and Mez recently finished a script called Echobender that automatically databends images. To use it you’ll need: A computer with Linux installed. I don’t have a Windows or Mac PC so I can’t test it on those Sox. On Ubuntu you can install it via sudo apt-get install sox Convert, which is part…

  • Birthday Cake

    After seeing my newly created twitter background, Jon (aka scribbleboy) asked me to do one for him. So I did. In fact, I did several versions He asked for something red, so I took a few birthday pictures and did the equivalent of putting them through a shredder! It seems recently that there’s been…

  • Beginnings of a glitch typeface

    I was speaking with Jon earlier about my work and he’s noted that a lot of it has been text based and then asked if I was working towards making a typeface in the same style. I must admit, my recent text based work has mostly been an excuse to use the awesome Kawoszeh…