I just tried to play this and it made safari glitch out. 
excellent
(Before squishing itself, it cloned a smaller resizable version of the entire window floating over itself, then exiting and relaunching safari without quitting would change the dimensions of the squishing randomly. Serendipity.)
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Bloopy
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This was the result of the Color Cast tool in PhotoImpact going out of the bounds of what it could handle on an image with a lot of JPEG artifacts (Color Cast is normally used to adjust colours to look more natural, eg. if a photo was taken inside under yellowish light bulbs). It’s difficult to find other images with the right colours to cause the same effect. I don’t have the original image I used as it was on a forum that’s gone down, but I guess it was some sort of clip art of a star and planet. Pretty cool though!
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Angela
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nice! how’d you do that? If you dont mind getting into the process some : )
The process, if there is one, is pretty random. It’s really just a byproduct. My main computer, the one I’m typing on now, is a Dell tower from 2004 running Windows 7. It is so old that it has trouble playing videos. The only way it will play them without stuttering is if all other applications and windows are closed. I discovered, however, that if I open another processor-intensive program while a video is playing, it will choke the video stream and glitch the video.
It’s become like a video game for me. Watch a movie, wait for an interesting scene to pop up in terms of imagery or visual dynamics, open other apps in an attempt to glitch the video (the timing is frustratingly imprecise), and then make sure I hit the pause button before the image resets. Sometimes I lose an image because the video resumes before I can pause it.
The process is not repeatable; I never get the same thing twice. But it’s fun, and sometimes the results are interesting. It’s pretty much a roll of the dice in terms what the results are, so I can’t take too much credit!
I was watching the movie Eighth Grade the other day and nabbed these screenshots, for example:
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Didn’t know there was a term for it. Very cool!
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Angela
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That’s REALLY awesome!
Is the computer able to run QuickTime or some other screen capture app? I’m thinking it would be cool to screen grab the datamoshed movie, or clip of a movie. Maybe that can be the cpu intensive buddy app.
I wish I had your computer now 
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Thanks for linking this. Just this week I revisited datamoshing and was thinking of making more videos that incorporate it. And the more ways/processes, the better! (More options to select from for the final video : )
Gonna give this tutorial a try today I think.
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I’ve never tried to grab a moving image. Not sure if it would work, but it can’t hurt to try.
I do need to upgrade my computer one of these days, but I can always cheat and use my wife’s laptop if I need to run some new-fangled apps. Fewer happy accidents that way, though.
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This brings glitch art to mind, but it’s from a brain glitch rather than a computer glitch. I had something quite different in mind when I entered the formulas, and only realised what I’d accidentally done after I saw the result. I refined the parameters a bit and edited the image to make it less pixelly. It’s a plot of a partial sum of the Dirichlet eta function:
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Was scanning some old family negatives from the 1960s when the scanner went wonky on me.
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Angela
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I’ve made a video that incorporates data moshing quite a bit. Hope you enjoy!
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Ready made vinyl artwork!
A few recent glitchy things from my phone!
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Thhhh
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I have played around in Max with direct feedback of gl textures. Result gets pretty wild, but hard to capture.
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In earlier iterations of Quicktime and Mac OS, I used to encode videos as divx or xvid, then duplicate them and cancel the duplication before it finished. The result was these corrupted files that, as you scrubbed through them, retained some earlier frames cross blurred/broken/smeared with later frames. My trick no longer works with modern software.
I guess this is a long shot, but I faintly remember someone somewhere who made a way to produce this effect through code, but I can’t figure out how to find his site, if it still exists.
I’m sorry I can’t follow up with an illustrative example, but the relevant images are on a separate drive. Thanks for any insight!
andrew
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something like this might work (in the terminal) ?
cp /path/to/movie.xvid /path/to/movie_2.xvid
then control-C before it finishes
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Justmat
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i had a first go at datamoshing yesterday. the video result is hit or miss, but there are some really nice moments, i think 
i used avidemux for the moshing, and the glitching starts at 10 seconds in.
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Blueboy
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This is 10 years old, but it’s a good one.
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