Processes

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“I received an email telling me

pairs and traded our letters, we

it was over. I didn’t know how to

read through them together and

respond. It was as if it wasn’t meant

underlined key points. With my

for me. It ended with the words:

letter it was very long with a lot of

Take Care of Yourself. I took this

detail and personal aspects, with my

recommendation literally. I asked a

partner, Nat his first language is not

hundred and two women, chosen

English, but he decided to write his

for their profession, to interpret the

letter in English. This made his letter

letter in their professional capacity.

the complete opposite to mine, as it

To analyse it, provide a commentary

was quite informal and short. This

on it, act it, dance it, sing it. Dissect

made a lovely contrast between the

it. Squeeze it dry. Understand for

two letters. This workshop was very

me. Answer for me. It was a way to

interesting; it made us see a different

take the time to break up. At my own

way of looking at things. It is a form

pace. A way to take care of myself”

of idea generation, and it helped to

-

not only understand other peoples

In a workshop with Anneke we were

letters, but it also helped me clearly

asked to write a letter to someone

define my own project through

of our choosing about our projects.

things that I had written in my letter

I chose to write to my mum. I wrote

and my approach to how I decided

two full A3 sheets explaining my

to explain the project to my Mum.

concept in terms that she would understand. Then we went into


process Workshop no.1

image taken from JORDAN X CORONA DESIGN Image taken from http://www.jordanxcorona.com/

This is my final process image. I printed this onto acetate to represent a filmstrip. This took a lot of development to get right, which you can see on my blog. The final image has about 50 screen captures from the film ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’, overlaid on top of each other with different effects to create a glitch effect. I also made an actual glitch GIF of this that can also be found on my blog.

OUR FIRST TASK OF THE NEW MODULE IS TO CREATE SOMETHING ON A4 OR A3 THAT INCLUDES THE WORD ‘PROCESS’ I DECIDED TO LINK MINE TO MY FMP PROJECT, AND ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. I WANTED TO FOCUS ON THE DISTORTION AND FILM. I DECIDED TO LOOK AT OLD VHS FILM AND THEIR EFFECTS. I DID SOME RESEARCH AND I DECIDED THAT I WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROCESS. THIS IS MY FINAL PROCESS IMAGE. I PRINTED THIS ONTO ACETATE TO REPRESENT A FILM STRIP. THIS TOOK A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT TO GET RIGHT, WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON MY BLOG. THE FINAL IMAGE HAS ABOUT 50 SCREEN CAPTURES FROM THE FILM ‘ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND’, OVERLAID ON TOP OF EACH OTHER WITH DIFFERENT EFFECTS TO CREATE A GLITCH EFFECT. I ALSO MADE AN ACTUAL GLITCH GIF OF THIS WHICH CAN ALSO BEEN FOUND ON MY BLOG.



In a workshop with Anneke we began to look at apps, we got into groups and chose one app to look at. We then had to think of everything about the app that we could. We had to think of it in a way of explaining the app to someone that had never used it before. My group chose to look at Instagram, as this is the app that we used the most. This is the mind map that we created whilst brainstorming about Instagram. Anneke then asked

us to design an app that linked to our projects. As I am doing my project based around the theme of memory, I decided to use this as the theme of my app. After the session I went home and decided to mock up my idea.


Image taken from http://www.glitchtextiles.com

These textiles are a collection of woven

produced with modified, obsolete Kodak

and knit wall hangings and blankets

digital cameras. Images from these and

whose patterns are generated using

other experiments are used as pattern

images

sources for creating these blankets.

taken

with

short-circuited

cameras. These blankets are layered with

Designed by Phillip Stearns. DCP Series

irony: a digital photographic image, made

designs are sourced from intentionally

with an intentionally broken (rewired)

short-circuited digital cameras. DA series

camera, is mechanically woven or knit

designs are created using the process of

into a photo blanket. In this project, a

down sampling and colour-quantization

keepsake for cherishing one’s memories

applied to gradients. YOTG Series designs

now becomes a platform for fashioning

are sourced from Year of the Glitch, a

corrupted memory, the cold logic of

yearlong glitch-a-day project by Phillip

digital systems into soft, warm blankets.

Stearns.

This project is related to the Year of the

https://phillipstearns.wordpress.com/

Glitch project and DCP Series of images

glitch-textiles/


Sara Nesteruk Workshop NO. 2 At the beginning of the session, we talked about the process of ‘Writing’ about a piece of our operation but in different forms. I chose my inspiration as glitches as this is what I am looking at in relation to my final major project. I began my ‘writing’ in the form of photography. I took loads of photos, experimenting with the camera settings. This image below I created by accident using a long shutter speed.

I then experimented further with this by looking at the movements on my phone, moving images and videos. I then develop this further by moving onto a Mac and taking photos of random music videos. I think this made a very interesting but visually pleasing effect. I then developed this even further, by making some of the images into GIFs, which can all be seen on my blog.



CCRZ / Museo d’Arte Lugano / Tony Cragg poster


I originally created these personas in a modern style, which can be seen on my blog. After revisiting this, I decided that the personas for my exhibition should be in the style of the exhibition itself. I created these personas using postmodern design so that they would link in to my Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind project.


I tried to think of another process to create glitches. First I

decided to scan in some book pages. I then I decided to try use the scanner to create glitches. I printed out quotes from

the film in Helvetica and then placed these onto a scanner. Whilst scanning them in I moved the pieces of paper slightly,

which gave a really nice glitch effect. I then ended up using this technique quite a lot throughout my project.



Mikser Festival 2012 In 2012, Mikser, the biggest regional festival of creativity, was relocated from the industrial setting of Žitomlin production facility to one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Belgrade – Savamala. This marked a change in the program structure, the festival now being scattered over a number of locations, instead of just one. This year’s festival identity was designed to reflect the overall transformation of Mikser, both in terms of location and program. Relying to a certain extent on improvisation, a quality inherent to the festival, we made over 100 different visuals that were varied within a unique layout, generating the identity that matched the dynamics of the festival. Photo: Milica Mrvic

ImageS and Information taken from: https:// www.behance.net/gallery/6303755/MikserFestival-2012



I decided to try and make my own glitches not using effects or ‘ f a k e’ glitches in Photoshop, but by actually glitching the code of the image. I found that P N G f i l e s d i d n’ t w o r k as well as JPG files. I did this by opening up the image file in Te x t E d i t o n a M a c . I then went through this code and randomly deleted parts, added parts and copied and pasted parts until the image glitched. This process was all based on trial and e r r o r. Sometimes the whole image broke whilst I was editing the code, and I would have to s t a r t a l l ov e r a g a i n . This was more s a t i s f yi n g than creating glitches on Photoshop as it felt m o r e ‘ r e a l ’. After successfully doing this process I decided to continue with this method instead of using Photoshop as I felt i t f i t b e t t e r i n t o my project and I like t h e i d e a o f my g l i t c h art being genuine glitches.


Image taken from drawswords.com



In this workshop, Rob Lycett showed

us

how

to

glitch

images using processing and code.

This

workshop

was

perfect for my project and me. I filmed the whole workshop, which can be seen, on my blog. I used many different images and produced some amazing still images, GIFs and videos. This is by far my favourite process so far to glitch, as it completely different every time you do it, but it also works as a moving image, but also saves the ‘frames’ as still images. This

means

that

it

makes

it easier to have the output of GIF, Video or still image.

// declare some key objects

byte sourceData[]; // create an array to store image data

// this is my image object PImage glitch;

// create a counter

int frameCounter =1; void setup() {

size(2480, 3508); }

void draw() {

// this loops while program is running

//load in the image as data sourceData

loadBytes(“image1.jpg”);

=

// for loop

for (int i= 0; i<100; i++) { int

loc

=

(int)random(64,

sourceData.length); sourceData[loc] random(255);

=

(byte)

}

saveBytes(“ temp.jpg”, sourceData); // save the glitch if(frameCounter <25){ save By tes(“ frames /glitch _”+ f r a m e C o u n t e r+”. j p g”, sourceData); // save the glitch } else {

println(“done”); }

//load image to view it glitch jpg”);

=loadImage(“temp.

image(glitch, 0, 0); frameCounter++; }WW


When to stop researching and start making things Workshop Pre-Production – Getting to know the subject. Making plans Production – Doing the work Post-Production – Alterations, tidying up & adding sparkle After the initial research, this should be an iterative process – reworking after presenting to client or based on tests & experiments Workflow: planning your project Timeleines – with alterations Understanding the key in mind. stages needed towards It is important to completion. If avoid the haphazard there are any unknown – could someone else parts to the project that pick up your could be sticking points project and work out these how to complete it need to be based on the files quantified quickly by they or objects they experimentation. Get an have been given? With idea of how long this in mind, don’t they will take in order to rely on your memory – clarify your workflow. write it down Planning: Designing for a book: Breaking a job down Consider the ‘Folio into component parts. Structure’ (multiples Understanding what has of four) to Make flow charts and happen when. Building lists in contingency –


developed this into a glitch later using after effects.

glitch effects on photoshop using the liquify tool. I

project. I made each letter individually and added the

I decided to make a typeface to use throughout the


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Marcos Faunner | PICDIT

Alexander Paolella | PICDIT


The first photo-shoot I did was in a photo studio in University. I bought plain white vests and knickers for my two models. I also bought wigs and neon makeup for my models. After getting ready, the girls decided that they didn’t feel comfortable in the wigs, and so we removed these and just did the shoot in the vests and knickers. At the end of the shoot when we were in normal makeup and our own clothes we took a few more and I ended up using some of these in my final images. As this was the first photo-shoot, the models weren’t very confident at first, which is why I felt the pictures were better when the models were more confident in their own clothes.

PHOTO-SHOOT 001


Garajistanbul – Yigit Karagoz // http://blog.awesomemountain.com/


002

For this photo-shoot I used a projector to project pictures onto the models bodies. I loved this effect and I feel that this was the most successful photoshoot. The models seemed to be much more comfortable in this photo-shoot because the photoshoot took place in the dark. Because of this, I asked the models to pose topless to get a better view of the glitches on the body. Whilst doing this photo-shoot, some glitched images worked better than others, and in the most successful photos from the shoot, they all included the same image projected onto the body.

PHOTO-SHOOT


Daniel Nelson http://ift.tt/1oYIqNQ // Agni Mitra http://ift.tt/1LtxIn9 // Dylan Glowa http://ift.tt/1TcnzCY // Pikčržder http://ift.tt/1NtMhGH // Riccardo Di Trani http://ift.tt/1Kc5fkV // Nicolas Kouri / Collageno http://ift.tt/1Tpasv0


Jose Benitez https://www.behance.net/gallery/THE-ISLAND/8115517// Vanessa GĹ“tz http://www.vanessagoetz.fr/#/ projet/14/philharmonie-de-paris


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PHOTO-SHOOT 003 In the Easter holidays I visited Northumberland for a week and whilst I was there we visited Embleton beach, which gave an unlikely resemblance to the beach in Wainscott in Montauk that Clementine and Joel visit in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Because of this I decided this would be the perfect place for a third photo-shoot.



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In his second year working with Fratelli Boffi, Ferruccio Laviani has created yet another fanciful world from the depths of his prolific imagination. A

storage unit. Selected for a preview of this new collection, the piece exemplifies this new design philosophy and the harmonious juxtaposition of

concept that goes

the languages and cultures it is

beyond individual

based upon.

products, it combines the expertise of a company that specializes in full-feature and tailor-made projects

Echoes of faraway places and Oriental elements are glimpsed in the ‘disorienting’ design of this

with the creativity of a

storage unit, which seems

designer who can strike

to have been ‘deformed’ by a

a balance between the

strong jolt or by swaying

past and the future,

movements. Although it

blending the harmony

appears to depart from

and magniloquence of the

the aesthetics of the past,

classical with the charm

in fact it draws upon

and allure of the contemporary.

ancient knowledge in the use of carving and fine wood

For the 2013 Furniture Exhibition,

workmanship.

the renowned architect has created an entire universe divided into a

The appeal of this extraordinary

home’s different spaces. Ferruccio

piece of furniture lies in its

Laviani enthusiastically focuses

ability to overturn and question

on the concrete design aspect of

classical stylistic principles

interior design, creating unique

such as purity, cleanness and

products that have a strong visual impact and a one-of-a-kind look, as well as coverings, panelling and flooring. This far-reaching vision blends and encompasses different sources of inspiration

symmetry, while evoking a comforting feeling of deja-vu and a sort of primitiveness, matched by unquestionable craftsmanship.

and questions the traditional tenets of design and furniture. The fanciful blending of styles is paired with an innate sense of wittiness to produce furniture like the Good Vibrations

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/03/14/good-vibrations-distorted-cabinet-ferruccio-laviani-fratelli-boffi/


failed memories, the 4th selection – david szauder


Camille Raviart




The image on the left is the embroidery that I did onto the actual canvas. This time instead of following the string all the way along the lines, I did each part of the line between the letters separately. This process took so much longer, but it will be a lot stronger and it will last longer that the way I did it on the paper. So far this process has taken me about 4 hours and I haven’t finished it yet!

I decided to try embroidery as I thought that this would work perfectly with one of my A-Z designs. I printed the design onto linen paper to add to the effect. I used white string and followed the lines of the print. As this worked so well, I decided to get this design printed onto canvas to not only make it easier to sew, but I also thought it would make it look a lot more visually pleasing.


After realising that the majority of my course was doing similar processes, I wanted to experiment with some more unique processes. I decided to do some research and some experiments into handmade processes. The first process I decided to do was cutting by hand. I decided to do this before I made the decision as to if I should do laser cutting or not.


I wanted to print my A-Z designs as a book for part of the process module. I originally wanted to print this book in Jot Bindery but I decided that as part of my process I would first make it all from scratch myself. I started by individually printing my designs out onto different types of paper. I did this to enhance some of the designs by the use of different papers and cards. I cut them all out myself on the guillotine to form another process. I also bought some pink paper from the print bureau to split up the pages; I used pink as I have used pink and green throughout this project to represent the colours that form in glitches.


Another process I did was painting and sewing onto an image. I printed out a photo of Ealish that I had glitched and then I painted a metallic silver strip down one of the glitched colour blocks, I also tried to stitch into one of the colour blocks but I found this really difficult as the paper was so fine, the string kept ripping through the paper. This is something else that I could later develop onto card, wood or fabric.



In this workshop with Nick Deakin, he introduced us to ‘Zines’ as ways to 1) create visually pleasing work and 2) for idea creation! I decided to make mine link to my glitch project. I took the quote ‘How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot, the world forgetting, by the world forgot’ from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and glitched it on the scanner numerous times. I decided to print out all of the glitches I had made and cut them out and stick them down onto a piece of A4. I then rescanned this in. I printed this version out and made it into a Zine. I posted this to my Instagram account (@kara.clifford) and Nick reposted this on the (@HUDGDA) account.



Whilst watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind I decided to make some abstract canvases based on the colours in the film. I started by putting the colours that appeared on the screen down on the canvas first, the placement on these was determined by where they appeared on the screen. I then used a paintbrush and swept the colours across the canvas based upon how long the colours appeared for, I also matched the speed of the movement in the scene. I then scanned these paintings in and glitched them.



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