Coding- it’s super daunting. A whole different language that lives right in your computer.
Don’t get me wrong, I still know nothing about coding. Like, absolutely nothing.
But I got introduced to something that looks a lot like coding. Does it count? Maybe not. Either way, it made me feel cool.
Look at that beauty. I have no idea what any of it means. But my art Professor had us open up a .jpeg image in TextEdit, and that’s what came up. All the little bits of information that the computer uses to make up the picture. Here is the original photo:
These are 5 of my best friends. We like to think we’re like the TV show “Friends.” (I’m Pheobe, of course.) But that’s all probably for a different blog post.
I took this picture of them a couple weeks back and processed it through VSCO. Then I opened it up in TextEdit to see this random array of letters, numbers and symbols.
This is where the glitch comes in.
My professor taught us how to make glitch art. To mess up images to make cool irregularities.
I started deleting large sections of the code and replacing many parts with the names of my friends typed over and over. For example, here’s Tyler’s section:
After a while of totally destroying sections of the code, the results were pretty cool.
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