I wrote a little Processing sketch that randomly fucks with the byte data of image files. The result is glitched image files. Lots of them. That I can animate. Click on the image above for the movie.

I will hopefully have more iterations of this soon. I kind of like this idea, going along with some previous ideas that I was working with, but from a different direction – that of manipulating the data directly, as opposed to creating the image of it. Let’s see where this goes.

My Aunt Diana and late Uncle Ray’s barn.

I’m back from Seattle, done with the holidays, and eager to get going on some new projects. I hope to get some of the things that I have finished up (more of a matter of figuring out how to document them, and how best to showcase that in a blog setting), as well as finish off some things that I have been working and get those up. Anyways, as this is a blog cum personal slideshow, I have some photos from the trip after the jump.
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I was at the downtown San Francisco Nordstrom today (believe it or not, I am actually not there on a regular basis) and ran across an interesting holiday addition. I’m not sure if it was intentional or not, but the strings of lights cascading down the center of the store bear a remarkable to the work of Félix González-Torres, specifically his 1994 piece, Untitled (America) that was featured at the U.S. pavilion in this year’s Venice Biennale.

Below are photos of the two. Judge for yourself.

The Nordstrom lights
Photo Credit: Ian Bartholomew

So, yeah, its been awhile since I have posted. Things have been crazy with school, and I haven’t had much to post, as a lot of it has not come to the point of finished works. But hopefully in the next few weeks, with some time off, I will get around to posting some of the finished works.