#ExtraBoy

[sso-ly]

Training Diary - ExtraBoy/Spike:

Today we managed to complete the whole route again, and by doing that we went from Level 11 to Level 14, so will hit Level 15 soon tomorrow.

Also guess who found about the "H" toggle for the Coat by accident, cant believe it took me this long, I really need to learn to see over past updates.

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[puntoyrayafestival]

Unfinished remake of First Born, RIP Oaktabarn. Music by Extraboy.

[rosa-menkman]

Still born

Music by Extraboy. Unfinished First Born remake, RIP Oaktabarn.

[sso-ly]

Training Diary - ExtraBoy/Spike (maxxed):

And with that Spike is fully trained.

[sso-ly]

Training Diary - ExtraBoy/Spike:

Didnt get much time to train today due to it being Norways National/Constitutional Day today, but managed to do enough to go from Level 9 to Level 11.

[sso-ly]

Training Diary - ExtraBoy / Spike:

Days: 15.05.21 and 16.05.21 (posted on 16.05.21)

Forgot to post these ones too and since the day 2 (16) was so small I decided to just combine them.

The ones above this title is from the 15.05.21, where we went from Level 1 to Level 8 (almost Level 9).

The one above this is from 16.05.21, due to a lack of time I only got time to do the Soul Training and got 200 xp from H.O.R.S.E, which got us to Level 9.

[sso-ly]

Training Diary intro - ExtraBoy/Spike:

Was supposed to post this yesterday but forgot to.

FullName: ExtraBoy

Nickname: Spike

Breed: Nixie.

Sex: Male.

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[rosa-menkman]

Washmountain (2)

Lately I have been very much into Quicktime.. I like to say its one of my favorite softwares. Its has so many glitchy compressions. One of the glitches that I really enjoy is a very easy one I used for a remake of the old Washmountain (music by Extraboy) and also for the accidents in celluloid and pixel. Use Quicktime 7 pro (don't know about the new one!) and export any video to .avi (Cinepak 256 grays, least quality). The result is a mad acid techno 090909 color surprise! yeahaa! Even better: fastforward in the HD gets you a green youtube remix!

[rosa-menkman]

Compress Process (2)

A remake of Compress Process I was not to happy how it looked before, something just threw me off, so I decided to play one more compression trick on the video. I hope you enjoY!

[rosa-menkman]

Compress Process

The whole video is created with one and the same skype video recording; its basically a selfportrait of me jumping around. ______________ Creating this video made me think about a couple of things. First of all, the research I am doing is not about destroying the pixel. If we subscribe to wikipedia and agree that the pixel (or picture element) is the smallest item of information in an image, I would rather say that through artifacts like compression and glitch, I deconstruct the pixel of the video. I create new pixels from old pixels, with new dimensions and new pixel-properties. Moreover, whereas pixels are normally arranged in a 2-dimensional grid, I think that we could wonder if the pixels actually has a third, or even forth dimension (in the sense that pixels are made out of different layers, with a certain opacity, that are placed on top of each other, over time). A simple thought that never occurred to me before. This requires some obvious research into the technology of the pixel. A third thing that occurred to me is the misconception of the term compression. In general, (and also in wikipedia) data compression refers to the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. But when I do these types of experiments in encoding (compressing) a video file, it easily happens that a 1 minute video file (that originally only took up 87mb) takes up to 4gb of space in compressed form. It makes me wonder if compression is still a matter of compressing? I can't seem to dodge the question of what would be this 'unencoded representation' wikipedia refers to, when we are talking about files that have been generated through a compression service like skype? This video was successively compressed in three different (glitchy) ways. The first compression made the colors of the video unstable. In windows, the colors changed to black and white while on the mac, the video still had color. It also became pixelated (0'27-0'35). The second compression made the video bleed. You can see what I mean with bleeding from 0'37 to 1'17. These are basically the more messed up parts of the video. The third compression made the video very grainy, (for instance, from 2'50-3'06). Instead of playing frame by frame, the video seems to make collages of itself by putting layers triggered by the sound on top of eachother. A very weird compression mode that I also exploited in To Smell and Taste Black Matter (only seems to work when you add .wav sound to the video and compress with animation codec set on least quality). The only filter I used was a contrast filter and a filter for keying some whites out. I also edited the video to the music. Extraboy made the music for the video. The beginning of the song is consists of a speech synthesis fighting for room with a song composed of text and exe-data. All performed on the Amiga. Gradually this sound gets highly compressed, and at the same time the (g)rainy sounds of a malfunctioning VST enters. That is followed by a new version of the song that was recorded in the original skype video.

[rosa-menkman]

Radio Dada

Fullscreen! Video: Rosa Menkman Music: Extraboy The video-images are constructed out of nothing but the image that feedback created [I focused a high end camera to my screen that showed, in real time, what I was filming, creating a feedback loop]. Then I glitched the video by changing its format and subsequently exporting the video into animated gifs. I [minimalistically] edited the video in Quicktime. Then I send the file to Extraboy, who composed music for the video. The composing process started with a hand held world radio. Extraboy scanned through frequencies and experimented with holding the radio in different parts of the room while touching different objects. Eventually he got the radio to oscillate noise in the tempo that he perceived the video to have. The synthesizer sounds that were added were played live to further build on a non-digital sound and rhythm. This was later contrasted with drums which were digitally synthesized and processed through effects with a very digital sound to them. Just like the video, the mixing of digital and analogue media and aesthetics is mixed into one coherent whole.