Tag Archives: programming

He did the monster mosh: automated datamoshing with tweaked GOP lengths

posted on 21 July, 2017 also tagged , , ,

After I posted yesterday about my automated datamoshing experiment, I got a nice message on Twitter from developer and botmaker Ryan Bauman who was able to run my script on his own videos. We talked for a bit about how it could be improved, and I had a major realization that I had to test […]

Making mosh-ups: automated datamoshing from multiple video sources

posted on 20 July, 2017 also tagged , ,

Datamoshing is a glitch art technique applied to videos to intentionally create “pixel bleeding” and other digital motion artifacts. It became popular several years ago when it was used in near-simultaneous music videos by Chairlift and Kanye West. In those cases, and in the tutorials and techniques documented since then, the glitches are typically introduced […]

LinkArchiver, a new bot to back up tweeted links

posted on 11 July, 2017 also tagged , , , ,

Twitter users who want to ensure that the Wayback Machine has stored a copy of the pages they link to can now sign up with @LinkArchiver to make it happen automatically. @LinkArchiver is the first project I’ve worked on in my 12-week stay at Recurse Center, where I’m learning to be a better programmer. The […]

New bot: @i_remember_txt, tweeting Joe Brainard’s “I Remember” (1975)

posted on 23 January, 2017 also tagged , , , , ,

Joe Brainard’s 1975 book “I Remember” is an incredible work of poetry. The New Yorker called it “his miniaturist memoir-poem,” and Paul Auster’s blurb for the 2001 edition gives a good sense of it: I Remember is a masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard’s […]

Rhyming “who phrases” from New York Times obituary headlines

posted on 11 October, 2016 also tagged , , ,

Many obituary headlines follow a standard formula: “Firstname Lastname, Who You Know From That One Thing, Dies at Age.” It’s a tendency I’ve counted on before when extracting names from obituaries for FOIA The Dead, but tonight it also got me thinking about the “who phrase”: the relative clause that condenses a lifetime of context […]