Teletext is Dead (Mark 2)

Part two of an experimental glitch video. A film taking an (overly) dramatic look at what might happen leading up to the moment analogue is switched off.

Work in progress and a follow up to 'Teletext is Dead':
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VywerSpT-Rg

Digital switchover - Switzerland

A video from YouTube. Did this really happen? If so, a bit of an anticlimactic end to the analogue signal. I'm hoping the UK at least get a test card for a few minutes or something.

E4 sting Work in Progress

Based on the Teleglitcher video, I have been working on some Teletext aesthetic E4 stings.

This video is from quite a while back and I've made a lot of changes since:



Here's some quick snapshots of the current progress:

Gordon Brown on Northern Rock

On of the videos I have been working on. This particular one is not the best but is upload worthy nonetheless.



Other videos based on this footage include a kung fu fughting Gordon Brown(!) made up of some of those hand gestures about halfway through the clip.

Channel 4 continuity

This video was recently uploaded to YouTube:



A pretty standard continuity but I found the sound annoying... perfect for some of my video editing.

Analogue glitching

Some analogue glitching, caused by weird 'electromagnetic gamma rays. TV glitching starts about 50 seconds in.



Don't know much about circuit bending (I'm no good with the technical stuff) but it looks good.

Digital vs Analogue

Another of these effect videos. I don't like the kaleidoscope effect but something is happening with the analogue pixellation.

Digital killed the analogue star

I love the sound of this:

Nothing much apart from that happens, though. Once you've seen the first ten seconds you've seen it all.

Teleglitcher

Following on from the Telegiffer idea, this is Teleglitcher. In fact despite their aesthetics and patterns created the two are quite different - Teleglitcher can be seen as a more advanced version of 'Teletext is Dead'.



Link to video

New Pixel is Power playlist

Why digital is rubbish

I concur muchly. On the positive side, it looks pretty cool.

Impossible game

I'd hazard a guess that this game (Untitled) by jodi is pretty much impossible to play. Sounds like Doom or Wolfenstein in which all the pixels and the 3D environment mapping has been messed up. Intriguing.

Edit: it's a hacked version of Quake and can be downloaded here.

In a similar vein, Cory Arcangel somehow transformed his computer data into some fancy looking glitch art! Pretty awesome. Found via turbulence.org.

DeuxPix

Another video in the same vein as the previous Larsen Feedback piece. By artist "Rocketrobos" (Toban Nicols) from YouTube. It's pretty cool how it's been done but a bit more technical than I could manage. Very similar to my proposed glitch film for which I am still collecting footage.

Tele Giffer, a tribute to jodi

Inspired by jodi, been playing around with the idea of glitch art in the same way as the short video I did on Monday. I thought it would be interesting to see what this would be like if it were computer generated rather than video shot.

So, I set about creating a set on animated gifs then applied them to HTML, the result below:


This was created using a grid of 4 different animated gifs, comprising of a few graphic and text characters, each with a different timespan and running order. This is what produces the different patterns. These were then arranged into three HTML documents which are navigated by clicking on the animations. Each page has a progressively jumbled collection of animations on the same grid.

Elsewhere, been thinking about the wider picture with regards to presentation. This might be jumping ahead too much too soon but I'd like to visualise a final outsome for this, hence the reason for these videos. Would be good to create an archive/showcase site like the microsite compiling all the data from this project, including videos, photosets etc.

Who broke my teletext?

Working on the idea of glitches, I produced a quickly shot and edited short film based around teletext scrambled receptions. Other areas I could expand to would be snow and test cards, but for now I think the glitch idea has some mileage at least.



I may develop this but it's just a test, really. Maybe I could take the idea and develop it for the web browser much like Jodi have in their Text piece.

Some links

Teletext holidays

Some of the best pixel art on teletext can be found on the holiday pages. This includes imagery and typography, which usually blinks endlessly. This can be compared to early websites with their technique of 'flashing' - basically blinking text or images.

Links

• Lektrogirl's blog is not worth visiting for long, otherwise your eyes may be damaged.
• Look Around You is a popular BBC comedy show. The interface on the recently released DVD is a load of Ceefax pages! Even the subtitles resemble those on teletext. I'm going to have to look out for this.
• Teletext inc. advertisements from Archimedia Design.
  

An advert for ORACLE:

Teletext comedy

A piece by comedian Mark Wooton. It's alright.


Possibly the inspiration for the Wootton vid above (it contains the same joke), an Alexei Sayle presented piece.