Teleglitcher, an early video from my 2007 Pixel is Power project, has been featured in a special presentation at the New Zealand Film Archive. Kiwi visual artist Dick Whyte, with the help of Mark Williams, put together a screening of various experimental media, described as such: “What do Miss Piggy, Britney Spears, Mussolini, Super Mario…
I always promised myself I’d get round to archiving my old sketchbooks, and this Easter weekend has given me the opportunity to do so. I’ve got about five years of stuff in the attic to go through, so that might take a while but to start, here’s a selection of the best artwork from my…
Clearing out some of the bulkier files on illarterate.co.uk, I came across a timeline created for my final year Graphic Arts Research Project (GARP) I’d completely forgotten about. It may be text only, but wasn’t teletext? Well, I know it incorporated some primitive artwork, but wasn’t the text the bit you were interested in? No?…
Anybody who’s bought a newspaper and looked at the back page today will probably have noticed a particularly poor Photoshop of Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt. This one, in fact: Well, guess who made it? That’s right, some fool whose text you are reading right now. Namely myself. Feel free to peruse the…
When creating the ‘Teletext is Dead’ video, I tried out a number of soundtracks, messing around with the pacing before finally settling on a fast paced, hectic concoction. This early mix, by contrast, is much more relaxing and laid back, whilst at the same time strangely intense. Music is provided by Nick McCabe. Oh, and…
I wonder if copyright messages are themselves copyrighted? Let’s conduct an experiment. Here’s a video consisting entirely of legal warnings from the likes of VVL and the VHS Video Collection. Who will be the first, if any, to get the video removed? Find out right here, soon. Or not, depending on how many people actually…
You know what? I forgot all about this thing, so it came as a pleasant surprise when I encountered it once again this afternoon. As with most of my stuff, there’s quite a few bugs in there, though these are by human error rather than design. I thoroughly recommend Whiteboard Pong, though the Snake game…
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…by getting it gloriously wrong.
The date was set – Teletext, the digital medium often seen as the spiritual successor to the Internet, would be switched off along with the analogue signal in 2012. But now that date has been brought forward two years thanks to poor financial performance, possibly caused by the rise of the Internet. In the next…
Haha, finally my long-awaited chance to enter Teleglitcher into the E4 sting competition! Specially cut for 2009, this version is a ten second re-edit to fit the new time constraints. And here it is, in all its HD YouTube glory! Warning, may be a bit manic for some tastes. I don’t hold out much hope…