Video effect that I adore
There have been a number of videos recently that employ an effect that can only be described as turning the artifacts of streaming buffering into something truly artistic. I saw it first with Beck’s “Youthless:”
And then again last week with Cassettes Won’t Listen’s video for “Into the Hillside:”
And finally, tonight, from the Presets. How I had never seen the video for “Are You the One?” is really beyond me:
Maybe it comes from years of surfing the internet on Venus Telephone’s blistering and never-changed-since-2000 384 kbps connection, but there’s a part of me that will always have a soft spot for these whacky pixelated messes.