Hey all, if you see a particular instance being a source of *bad stuff*, consider reporting them to the admins of your instance for possible blacklisting.

We need to cut this stuff out at the root.

I was doing a workshop last weekend and while I was showing my work I discovered that two of the pieces in my portfolio are just... dead links. both pieces were made on commission for organizations that no longer exist, and I was reminded of the fact that if you want something on the internet to last you have to host it yourself.

(this is why I'm a mastodon fan. not that I'm hosting my own account right now, but it's good to know that I could!)

Make your own glitchy images w/ audacity!

- Save to an uncompressed format (.bmp works great!)
- import into audacity as Raw Input w/ Encoding: U-Law and Byte Order; Big Endian
- Play with effects on all but the first quarter second or so (to avoid messing up headers)
- export to format "Other uncompressed files" and click options, set Header to RAW and encoding to U-Law. If you have issues, rename from .raw to .bmp!

Example image:

https://mastodon.social/media/EgBIl10C6awr7ad0NHo