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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Billy Mays Autotuned

Spiraling and hypnotic… I’ve watched this video five times now since I got a link to it last night from Jonathan. Beyond the novelty of what the video is doing, I feel that a new variety of melody has been created which is approaching the Infinite Jest samizdat.

Grade B Ill house shakes

Built to Spill are begging to be green-screened

Oh to be the prototype of the unattractive female face

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Update: I struck me yesterday that these experiments in averageness are somewhat interesting in that they kind of approach the uncanny-valley from the other end. Normally we see people trying to make lifelike robots that end up totally freaking out our brains. In this case, these people are starting with human [...]

Putting brightness where hue should be

Java doesn’t make it easy, but you can mess with pixels in HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) as well as RGB (Red, Green, Blue). Doing so gives you opportunity for immediately trippy results. In the first picture I maxed out the saturation and Pete’s true hippy nature is revealed. The second picture took [...]