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