#crazy bug and grumpy cat vs the world

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how ppl see kghn how kghn actually is

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I’m new to exid and kinda confused, can you help me with the girls’ names/nicknames?

YEAH okay so 

Solji the beautiful siren with the chubbiest cheeks in the world and the prettiest lips known to man was born Heo Solji and she just goes by Solji but because she’s the mom of the group since she’s the leader and is really caring and cuddly but also can be scary she gets called lots of “mom/mother” nicknames like the girls straight up address her as “mom” a lot during Showtime EXID like literally instead of Solji they would often yell “mom” to get her attention it’s adorable. And ofc fans call her mom for the same reason so like Heo Mother/Mama is something we say a lot, “mama Solji”, etc. Soul.G was her DJ name or something like that? some type of stage name years ago but now she does just use Solji. Heo Bad Gas was something that existed like years ago from way back in like 2012/2013 because when they dieted and ate boiled eggs she got really bad gas. They mentioned it during the first season of BUTBUT TV but don’t actually use this often? It was really just a let’s make fun of each other thing for the moment ips? Mostly just things having to do with mom and also Baby Heo she’s said before is one of her favorite nicknames of hers. I mean she is straight up the cutest woman in the world and she’s the youngest in her family so Baby Heo somehow fits her like just as much as mama Solji and all those.  ummm when she first debuted she introduced herself as “EXID’s Honey Vocal” for obvious reasons come on  and I tag her memether I think? don’t I lol? yeah anyway cause she’s their mother and she’s obsessed with memes, the other members (Hyelin I think but maybe Elly idk??) revealed that Solji sends tons of memes to their group chat. She’s also nicknamed Tweety I forgot about that one cause she looks like Tweety lol and the girls said she looks like Piglet too. And the animal she looks most like is a sloth? that was also lowkey about her being tired all the time while she was sick though so idk if that’s entirely fair lol. A koala is another one that one’s more fair too lol we’ll go with koala. 

LE is the rapper ofc her real name/birth name is Ahn Hyo-Jin and her English name is Ahn Elly. When she was an underground rapper before she joined EXID she chose Elly as her stage name which is also why some people get confused and say “Elly is her old stage name not her name/english name/etc” but it was/is her English name she confirmed it on an early season of BUTBUT TV when talking with Hani, her name on instagram is also literally “ellybaby” and “Ahn Elly” like she only really seems to use LE as a stage name and people call her both Elly and Hyojin off stage cause both are right ig? But yeah so LE is LE, Elly, and Hyojin all and then when you get into nicknames and not just like other names ig? she got nicknamed Elsa after Frozen’s Elsa a while ago cause she looks like her lol. Daisy Duck also because she looks like Daisy Duck but I haven’t heard anyone use that in a long time? “Elly/LE baby” or “Elly/LE baby the crazy” is a nickname that’s a reference to a line she had in a song where she started her verse with “elly baby the crazy”. I tag her euterpe because that’s the muse of lyric poetry and Elly writes all of EXID’s songs to date and has written for other artists as well. She’s so cool. She’s the “Tom” to Jeonghwa’s “Jerry” because she’s like a grumpy cat that likes to beat up Jeonghwa the mischievous mouse. idk what else? She’s the dad of the group like Solji is the mom? Oh and she first introduced herself as the group’s “Charisma” just like Solji is the group’s “Honey Vocal” and it makes sense cause she’s scary af. Or at least it seems until you realize she’s a giant softy and cries just as easily as Heo “crybaby” Solji herself. 

Hani’s real name is Ahn Hee-Yeon, but she does mostly go by Hani. In the same episode of BUTBUT TV (I really wish I had screenshots I mean I might but I don’t think I do but like idk someone will find it eventually) that Elly said Elly was her English name, Hani said that around the time she was born (I think it was either that or right before or right after or maybe just before?? so just know that at some point lol) her parents lived in the US and they liked calling her Hani/Honey growing up cause it’s their favorite American/English term of endearment and she mentioned even family and friends call her Hani more often than they call her Heeyeon normally but they’ve also seemed to be calling her Heeyeon more often and that was a while ago so maybe she’s just moving from it a bit? Or they’re just like eh we need to call you Heeyeon to properly yell at you when you do creepy shit. She was nicknamed Ms. Puff a long time ago during like their debut year because of her hair and face at the time she looked like Ms Puff. She was first introduced as the group’s “Brain” because she’s super smart, has a high IQ, enjoys studying/studies really well. She’s also very meticulous and perfectionistic? don’t know if that’s a word but you get it. So generally she’s a giant nerd she also literally wasn’t/isn’t a good dancer so she takes notes on what exact angles and movements make her look best while dancing and it’s clearly worked out well since a video of her dancing saved the group from disbandment lol. Because of that video too she’s nicknamed “Fancam Goddess” by like media people and stuff in Korea. She’s nicknamed Ahn Hyung by a lot of people because she’s “manly” or whatever. Which she isn’t really she’s just awkward and likes girls. And she’s good at sports but like Sistar are sports goddesses and they’re not called manly like Heeyeon is it’s just a combination of her being awkward and sporty and chill and people thinking that’s not feminine so it must be manly. anyway. She actually doesn’t seem to mind that much and embraces that nickname a lot and EXID as a group go with the jokes about them being more like a boy group than a girl group because they’re all such dorks who don’t know how to protect an image so it’s not really as annoying to me at all as it would be should any of them esp Hani have ever said they thought it was dumb. moving on though cause that’s a whole other topic. So she was actually originally “EXID’s Brain” from debut and onward a bit until she started introducing herself as EXID’s “Brain and Rose” because she thinks she’s as beautiful as a rose/a rose fits her really well and that over the years changed to her just introducing herself as “EXID’s Rose”. This was literally her own braggy decision and that’s why you might see someone say she and Elly too actually are the braggy members of the group bc like they are?? Heeyeon can’t stop complimenting herself and Elly literally said there’s nothing she can’t do but we stan confident queens who know their self worth.  always. 

Hyelin is the cute little small baby one who’s absolutely wild and uncontrollable so she is either called something cute like her original introduction being “EXID’s Cutie” (but I also remember her being “EXID’s Cute Bad Girl” around 2012/2013 idk why but like I remember that being a thing she said and not just cutie idk) or “My Way Lini”/”My Way Hyelin” because she just does what she wants. Like she’s the second youngest (oh yeah fake maknae too that’s a thing ig?) but who can really ever be mad at Lini? She curses on national television and their own leader is laughing about it she does what she wants and she gets away with what she wants. She not only curses and uses slang and dialect a lot but she also kinda just… generally says what she wants. She openly stated her eyebrows were tattooed, talked about what plastic surgeries each member should get, allegedly picked up a microphone at a show cause she heard fans talking shit and literally said “to all the fans of monsta x, we aren’t dating” and like??? that’s not something she wouldn’t do so who’s gonna deny that really? She just can’t control her mouth and doesn’t actually seem to want to really? so “my way Lini” fits her really well. She’s nicknamed Lini cause it’s just a cute nickname for Hyelin, Hyelini is also a thing. JjeopJjeop/jjeopjjeopi is a nickname that comes from her chewing really loudly/obnoxiously when she eats. Him Hyelini cause she’s super strong (like stronger than she should be where’d you get your superpowers lini baby??). Him means strong btw it’s not  another manly joke. She’s a good wrestler and beats their own manager at those arcade punching games. Baby bird because she looks like/is like EXID’s little baby birdy. she’s cute and small and they love her sm. Her English name is Jenny but no one ever calls her Jenny lol? Voldemort is a good one that comes from her famous impressions of Voldemort (her Voldemort sunbaenim)

Jeonghwa is nicknamed “maeboli” most famously I think?because she likes to do things that she knows will bother the older members and she literally is always asking for a beating. A radio dj asked for some clarification on this once and Jeonghwa just said “this isn’t a misunderstanding at all, I really do that” like the girl just enjoys making people chase her around and yell at her. It’s funniest when paired with Elly’s personality because she and Elly are the “Tom and Jerry” of EXID. They’re constantly chasing each other around and Elly is Jeonghwa’s favorite victim and vice versa cause Elly keeps fake bugs in her purse to scare Jeonghwa with. they’re just such dorks idk what to say. Jeonghwa purposefully is really loud and her voice is really high-pitched and she uses it to get on the girls nerves. She’s also called “EXID’s Sunflower” by fans sometimes because her and Heeyeon are the visuals of EXID and she’s more of the bright tall cheerful etc sunflower. She’s also called “pure visual” of EXID because her visuals/looks whatever are veery “pure” and innocent looking she’s got sparkly eyes and she’s just generally got a really friendly and innocent look esp compared to Heeyeon’s sharp and sexy look so the sunflower vs rose and pure vs sexy visual thing is probably why they’re both officially the visuals of EXID like imagine choosing between the two of them anyway. She gets called lady and princess Jjong/Park/Jeonghwa a lot cause she’s basically the “most lady-like” out of the members (or so it seems). and she just looks like a pretty lady with her pretty eyes and round face and her long ass limbs that make her the size of a tree. she got called a monkey sometimes during like Showtime years beause of her limbs too lol she’s got long arms and a small face and so she looks like one of those cute little monkeys I forgot what kind though. Merida was a nickname that started and ended with her orange hair from 2017 when they promoted Eclipse but she’s still merida in my tags just cause I still haven’t changed it. I’ll do it eventually. ummmm?? She was apparently Park Foot Odor for some time around debut but she denies this whole thing. That was from the same episode of BUTBUT TV where Solji’s gas and Elly being dirty was talked about too. Also we call her Jjong a lot just like how we call Hyelin Lini. 

There’s definitely more but like I can’t think of them rn? Sorry. 

[webartslearningbloguni]

Session 1: Post-Digital Imaging and Storytelling

Glitch Art

One area of Post-Digital that i find really interesting is Glitch Art as there are millions of different things that you can create, even with the same piece of code. The possibilities are endless. Glitches are usually things that people try and avoid, especially when it comes to websites and video games, as you want them to be working properly in order to use them. Artists began to see that these glitches that are often deemed as a nuisance, could actually be turned into something rather interesting, an art form in itself. One of the earliest forms of Glitch Art was Digital TV Dinner (1978) by Jamie Fenton and Raul Zaritsky who created a short video of what happened when they manipulated the Astrocade games console which resulted in glitching effects. It is understandable why Glitch Art is such an aesthetic, as will not lose its popularity any time soon. I can understand that the trippy chaoticness of the aesthetic is what draws most people in, with all of the plentiful vibrant colours that this artwork brings. I feel that glitch art will always have a relevant place is the post-digital world, as it will always be there as a way to expose technology in a way that shows people that no matter how complicated we can make these technologies, there will always be a way to create chaos within them and alter their unblemished appearances.

Laimonas Zakas (Glitchr)

Laimonas uses Glitch Art in quite a recent way, by using social media as his medium. Being able to write glitches and manipulate code on social media isn’t easy, and most platforms try and stop it as much as possible, but Laimonas has become well known for creating whole pages on Twitter and Facebook of this crazy looking stuff. When you view his work on the social media sites, it does look very odd because both Twitter and Facebook work hard to make sure that their sites are kept looking uniform. I like how he can show that it is possible to still cause havoc on what some might say is a boring looking website, and break the norm that we have come to see.

Glitchr ‮ (@glitchr_) on Twitter. [online] Available at: https://twitter.com/glitchr_ [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

Sabato Visconti

I like the work that Sabato does, and he has made a lot of varied art pieces using Glitch Art, experimenting with colours and different images. Even though a lot of the time you lose the meaning of the original picture Sabato glitches it, I like the way that he can create a practically new image instead, with new meanings. It is clear when viewing his art that the main theme of the work is Glitch Art, and he is careful to use images that will blend seamlessly together once glitched, so that the artworks are still pleasing to the eye.

Sabato Visconti | Official Artist Website |. (n.d.). Images Adrift - Sabato Visconti | Official Artist Website |. [online] Available at: http://www.sabatobox.com/images-adrift-pixel-drifter-glitch [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

Mathieu St-Pierre

Mathieu is a Canadian visual artist that specialises in Glitch Art. You can tell straight away from his website that he is a Glitch Artist, and it reflects his style well. He is probably most well known for his work Melting Ice Cream (2012) where he used the video software Sony Vegas to create the artwork. Even though you can’t make anything out in this image, I still really like the style and vibrant colours which almost entrance you and I feel that I can’t stop looking at it, which I feel really captures a part of what glitch art is about.

Mathieu St-Pierre glitch artist. (2017). Melting Ice-Cream. [online] Available at: https://www.mathieustpierre.com/melting-ice-cream [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

My Experiment

1.

I got my idea for these following two examples, from watching a Ted Talk by Wesley Thorp who has a really interesting take on Glitch Art and the way it is made. He likes to look at what is behind every digital image, which is data. The computer itself doesn’t know that what it is showing you is an image, to the computer it is just a load of ones and zeros. So if all that is behind a digital image, then it should be possible to manipulate it.

Original Image: Bullet Cat. (n.d.). [image] Available at: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bullet-cat [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

2.

The second glitched image i created was by looking at what different softwares I could use to glitch an image, based on all a digital image being is data, which means I can even change an image file into a sound file, and by using a sound editing software, I can manipulate an image and create something different. I converted the image into a .BMP file, and opened it in Audacity. I then highlighted chunks of the ‘audio’ and cut and pasted it in different places to get the image that you can see here.

Original image: 5624215-llama. (2018). [image] Available at: http://vdsm.americadaily.net/vs-28687.html/5624215-llama [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

3.

Another type of Glitch Art is called Pixel Sorting. This method creates a glitch effect by sorting pixels in terms of criteria, like hue or luminosity. Using a website called pixelsort.me, it allows you to upload an image and it will pixel sort it for you and create a new image where the pixels have been sorted into a specific order.

Here are a couple of pictures I tried pixel sorting with:

Original Image: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/london. (2019). [image].

Original photo: Billion Photos (2019). [image] Available at: https://wallpaper.wiki/formula-1-wallpaper-hd.html/wallpaper-wiki-formula-one-flame-desktop-wallpapers-pic-wpc003890/ [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

Original image: Anon, (2016). [image] Available at: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjj16Psn_3fAhWIERQKHQg1AikQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spectator.co.uk%2F2016%2F05%2Fhow-a-grumpy-llama-became-the-third-person-in-our-relationship%2F&psig=AOvVaw0iEgzZI0KxYoccHqUeElY1&ust=1548104238869407 [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

References:

Betancourt, M. (n.d.). The Invention of Glitch Video: Digital TV Dinner. [online] Questia.com. Available at: https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P4-1978602091/the-invention-of-glitch-video-digital-tv-dinner [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

Inc., A. (2019). PHOTOMOSH. [online] Photomosh.com. Available at: https://photomosh.com/ [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

Klee, M. (2015). The long, twisted history of glitch art - The Kernel. [online] The Kernel. Available at: https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/12265/glitch-art-history/ [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

pixelsort.me. (2019). pixelsort.me - sort yourself. [online] Available at: http://www.pixelsort.me/ [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

Visconti, S. (n.d.). Glitch Photography and Postphotography - Sabato Visconti | Official Artist Website |. [online] Sabato Visconti | Official Artist Website |. Available at: http://www.sabatobox.com/glitch-photography [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].

Wong, G. (2013). It's not a bug, it's a feature: the rise of glitch art. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/25/rise-of-glitch-art [Accessed 20 Jan. 2019].