Brainstorm Blog #1

The most exciting part of this project to me so far has been glitching in audacity. I feel like Audacity is the program I have the most control of the glitches over, and I can easily have an idea of what each effect will do as compared to the text editor glitch where you don’t have any clue on what you’re doing. I’ve slowly been gathering different versions of glitches to assemble gifs. In DA 1, I really enjoyed making gifs in Photoshop for our web adventure. Specifically, I remember my favorite gif being a lion scratch that had inverted effects. Since I know we’re making gifs and enjoyed the first time making gifs, I’m trying to get similar effects to the inverted look of the one I made in DA 1, just more refined. 

To generate images for this project I’ve been using the splicer to combine different AI generated images based on randomly generated prompts. Furthermore, with my images I’ve noticed that I’ve taken a liking to the ones that look weird. There’s one image I have of a bunch of hands with weird amounts of fingers, and there’s some face ones that have extra teeth or misaligned ears. I really enjoy enhancing the ‘inhumanness’ of these uncanny, almost human images. There’s something intriguing to me about the TV-static effect, almost like it’s a tv glitching out during doomsday.

Since this project isn’t super rigid, as we’re giving a lot of control to generators, AI, and the editors, I really just want to explore the vast amounts of colors and effects. I enjoy making my glitches look almost 3D, and the dystopian feel of flipping them.