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Because it's beautiful.

The effect is known as datamoshing and has become popular in some contemporary video art. It got popular from a Chairlift music video and is achieved by removing keyframes from compressed videos.

Check out this how-to for the non-Ruby way to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8

Here's the Chairlift video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzXVeugvYc

And here's some work (from Takeshi Murata) that I think directly influenced the datamoshing effect becoming popular: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ucn3m7rN8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I




Thanks for the links.

There is also a Vimeo group: http://vimeo.com/groups/videoglitch




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