Blog Best Bits 2004

02 JANUARY
We received the following message from Dark Towers at 07.06 hours today.
We're not sure what to make of it yet, but will
advise you on appropriate action if deemed necessary.
Network rumours saying this is the much-anticipated self-destruct beacon cannot
be relied upon at this stage, although of course the longer this
goes on, the more concerned we will obviously be. 


UNKNOWN MESSAGE

28 MARCH
Nice time at the BITSPLITTERS event.
We can show you a range of fonts, styles and textures, but you, 
the valued customer, must make your own decision based on our
subliminal advertising.

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MEHOZHORAT

18 APRIL
Drilling into your brain is generally not recommended.
The chance of bypassing all vital regions is 0.072, which is
below the acceptable risk-of-death threshold of 0.1.
So you see, numbers enable us to make the right decision every time.

In today's image, we see some green laser-like probes drilling into
a hostile data-dense environment.


KERTRECHTASE

01 MAY
I wrote a computer programme on the BBC2 telereceiver.
It was a mixture of BASIC (the host environment) and
hand-optimised 6809E assembler for the safety-critical
SUBroutines.
On bootup the screen is green.
The programme is a R.A.M. datavisualizer.
This realtime photostat of the screen should be in
black and white. The colours are created by chroma-crawl (or dotcrawl).
We mistune the frequency to make it go like this.
The code is handwritten before being typed.
The code, once entered, is SAVE onto Sharp 702 MiniDisc™ using low-quality
analogue wireguides.
The data can be re-remembered by the
computer if you play it back into its electric ear (only mono required).


JATAC-KE-ORIYUANOVASTAT

08 JUNE
Hand-edited jpg of a black square. In the absence of
colour or structure in the source image, what we see
is the workings of the jpg compression. It's like going
to the top of Hawaii to look at the stars - you don't want
air turbulence getting in the way because it'll make
the light wobbly. I refuse to have wobbles in my pictures.
Here we make the fetish for the lines of the straight direction!


NO AIR

13 JUNE
This image is quite blurred and at low jpg quality to keep
the file size down. I'm playing around with trying to get
some sense of depth into flat images. Does it look a bit 3D
to you? I might have to issue you all with plastic 3D viewer
specs, such as the ones you get when viewing a solar eclipse
safely. By making the sun 3-dimensional, it becomes dimmer
because volume grows at a faster rate than surface area, so
the radionuclides have lower density.

I sold my first prints recently in return for 10 silver whelks
from the ocean deep. I asked my bank manager for a loan to
set up a print studio. She asked what I was making. When I
told her I was selling TV interference and random data, she
didn't seemed wholly convinced. Well, the joke's on her now, ja, nein?


IT'S LIKE I CAN REACH OUT AND TOUCH IT

17 JULY
Fingerschnipp on a new impression orbit.

I have. Have you?

01 AUGUST

GO IN. STAY IN. TUNE IN.

Damn, forgot to bring my digital camera cable home this weekend -
but next week I'll show you the coolo t-shirt I've just made with the
UK government's Go in, Stay in, Tune in catchprase and logo.
I'm not at all a political animal, but this is so laughable
it needs to be expressed by the power of the t-shirt!

We're doomed.

Low-level radiation emitted by nearby computer monitors
causes scanline-synchronized modulation in the photosensitivity
of all living things.


PHOTOGLITCHESIS

18 SEPTEMBER
My binocular brain has stereo thoughts.
My monochrome eye reads braille shadows.
My magnetic blood flows North.
My electron limbs require a bias voltage to move.
My encrypted thoughts create action at a distance.
My DNA is spyware inserted by my parental units.


JAAGN

26 SEPTEMBER
Drilled into my calculator display but then
it stopped working. It must have contained a special
gas that makes it work. oops.

30 OCTOBER

NON-SPECIFIC WARNING

Stay alert.


CWAII-DAA

06 NOVEMBER

SIFT INCOMING WRITTEN DATA FOR KEY WORDS

Currently eschewing digital pics. More into
retro++ traditional photo print-making. Of course, using the
glitch as killer ingredient. 

----------- clean clinical lines neon colorizations
+++++++++++ scratchy matt analog outputs


scan for bad neurons
pre-allocate beliefs
buffer up ideas
finalise thoughts


12 DECEMBER
This is a from memory re-constituted image of a
t-shirt I saw in Japan recently.
Your rank in society is determined by how many of the rare
dark blue mouse-helpers you have. This one has 4, and was
being worn by a young Nintendo slave. He does all the high score 
table code with enough happy pixels to please his bosses and 
so make enough US dollar feed his ageing parents who live downstairs
and scare off any potential Western girlfriends.


JAPAN AM-SO MANY-COLOR-ME!
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