I saw your earlier comment on the interesting effects that can come about from bad compression and other digital glitching, and the idea IS intrieguing.
The pixilation and compression actually gives the image the suggestion of concussion and or/raw energy...and the pinking-shears effect on the gradient is pretty interesting too.
Meanwhile, to me, the combination of luminous, dense lines and the weird graininess induced by the JPEG artifacting is putting me in mind of an old book of computer art I have, where most of it went from screen to film to paper, adding in these delicious multiple levels of grot: scan lines and film grain.
Now that we can casually store, display, and print perfect images, every single technique we used to use to get around the old limitations is fair game for artistic expression. The fact that this image is 1600x700 pixels and only 44k in size is far less important now than the fact that it's so deliciously messy, in such a unique way...
*nods* I was about to mention that if you had the resources for it, you could go a step forward and see how far you could take this process in regards to printing: effects that rise from uncalibrated monitor/printer work with mismatched color profiles and the wrong sort of paper, for example.
One of the things that has always niggled at the back of my mind about computer art is how very clean and sharp it can look, which sometimes dampens its impact in my mind. This piece is, as you say, a deliciously messy alternative to all of that. And I can only imagine the creative possibilities of controlling the compression level of different parts of an image!
Frankly, I'd love to see what would happen if you took this idea and ran away with it. :)
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Date: 2006-09-25 05:03 am (UTC)I saw your earlier comment on the interesting effects that can come about from bad compression and other digital glitching, and the idea IS intrieguing.
The pixilation and compression actually gives the image the suggestion of concussion and or/raw energy...and the pinking-shears effect on the gradient is pretty interesting too.
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Date: 2006-09-25 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-25 06:47 am (UTC)Now that we can casually store, display, and print perfect images, every single technique we used to use to get around the old limitations is fair game for artistic expression. The fact that this image is 1600x700 pixels and only 44k in size is far less important now than the fact that it's so deliciously messy, in such a unique way...
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Date: 2006-09-25 12:05 pm (UTC)One of the things that has always niggled at the back of my mind about computer art is how very clean and sharp it can look, which sometimes dampens its impact in my mind. This piece is, as you say, a deliciously messy alternative to all of that. And I can only imagine the creative possibilities of controlling the compression level of different parts of an image!
Frankly, I'd love to see what would happen if you took this idea and ran away with it. :)