VIERTEL 1 2005

31 MARCH
Rob Lycett has put up the info about the Glitch:Aesthetics exhibition on 7th May,
which he's organising. Also, Iman will be plugging our glitch book mainly, I  hope;
he may have some time left over to talk about his academic research on the glitch.

Watched Ring last night; original Japanese version with subtitles.
Nice effects. Well, you know, just a knackered old VHS tape really.
(VHS = Very High S).

This is a scan from some cool book on nuclear accidents,
with the image header info interlaced into the image
data and then colour-corrected. Along those lines anyway.


BRORB

29 MARCH
Spent most of yesterday downloading all submissions (so far) for the Glitch Book.
My eyeballs hurt now. I hope this won't be a side-effect of reading it.
We'll have to include some anti-glitch antidote in case a reader becomes overwhelmed
and topples over. Maybe some nice still-life paintings of bowls of fruit
positioned at strategic locations: pages 0x11, 0x19, 0x3e and 0x3f. (Double dose
at the end to ensure it's safe to drive a car-car or operate a machine-machine).

You want a glitch pic? Tough. This website is so shite this year.
It might get better though when summer arrives.

15 MARCH
I am very pleased to have been invited to exhibit some
work at a proper gallery - in about 6 weeks time! This is
simultaneously exciting and completely nerve-wracking.

Now pay close attention to this objet diabolique.
Memorise the greyscale values of all 56320 pixels, but
don't convert them into machine code bytes and execute it!


CJORUM

05 MARCH
Many thanks to Shusaku Hariya  at a.i.r.
for posting up our call for submissions!



How cool is that? No, it's not that my browser hasn't got Japanese
fonts installed; that _is_ the actual translation. It's a new experimental
language they're trying out in Japan. It's silent when spoken, but condenses
into distinct rectangular thought-beads when the words fall onto the 
cold computer screen.

27 FEBRUARY
Excuse lack of updates for now. Fascinating to see all the submissions
for, you know, "the glitch book". We need to inflitrate Japan though!
Does anyone know the most popular Japanese art/design web portals where
we could plonk a badly-translated Call for Submissions?  glitch@gmail.com

05 FEBRUARY
We have our first submissions for the Glitch Book.

Need...More...Glitch...

more

more-more

moo-moo

glitch

itch-itch

chiko-chiku

kitto katsu!


!US-TAKOT-TIK

30 JANUARY
Iman Moradi (Organised) and myself have launched the Glitch Aesthetics and Design book site.
We are in the Call for Submissions stage right now, so get yer skates on,
glitch persons of the magic InterWeb. Visit the book site, read the blurb,
put together your best visual glitch art, and get it noticed in a book that we're
confident is going to be slouched nonchalantly on coffee tables the world over.

You complete us.

22 JANUARY

RQST

Does anyone have any office paper? I'm lookng for unused office
forms, ie. where you have grids and squares where the computer
prints special numbers. In the back of my mind I remember my Dad
supplied my sister and me with loads of Abbey National
Building Society office paper in the 1970's and 1980's, because 
it was blank on one side - good for drawing etc. 
I actually preferred the other side though,
with these big grids where I guess people's mortgage details were
printed and analysed by a diabolical robot. 

If you have any lying around, it would be cool if you
could post me some - up to 10 or 20 sheets would be great. What I propose
is that if you email my diabolical self, (Tony), at beflix@gmail.com, 
we can arrange "the drop", and in return, I will send you a couple 
of my new prints when I've done them, to repay your efforts, postage.
(Note the U.S. use of the comma to signify "and". Noted? Good.)
The older and more retro the forms the better. And yellowing, faded
paper is also a bonus. 


NUKE RUSSIA NOW? Y / N / Y

01 JANUARY