So yesterday a friend told me about glitchart and today i tried it out myself since its so stupidly easy to do. First thing I did was just taking one of my *.jpgs of a lost place here in cologne and tried to edit it via notepad.

Since glitchart, or art in general for that matter, kind of represents the act of defying rules or norms i chose this fitting picture of a graffiti saying „Jaja Es Gibt Regeln.“ which translates into a very ironic „Yes there are rules.“, only acknowledging there are rules but nothing more. I actually really like this way of thinking. It suits the gonzo-outlaw-journalism style of Hunter S. Thompson so so much.

Anyway.

After editing the picture a bit in notepad and saving it I got heaps of errors that the file may be corrupted (duh). After a quick google search I found out that jpgs are best glitched in a Hex-Editor which „translates“ data into a hexadecimal matrix.

After going wild with a free editor i found online I came up with this, first, result.

Actually looks kind of cool. But I really wanted to keep the graffiti visible for obvious reasons, so I opened both the original picture and the glitched one in Photoshop and layered them a bit, turning down the visibility of the glitched one and also raising the contrast of the original. Im really happy with the result.

I saved the result as a *.gif just because a gif only uses 256 colors, thus leading to a little bit cooler „retro“-look.

Lets see if I keep up this blog. Until then? I dont know, living the dream i guess 😦

cya