Some new bits. Slowly degraded the original day by day.
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Fuuuck man that last one is SICK!
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Thanks buddy!
What resolution are you working in? Good for print?
145mm square @ 300dpi
Not the best for prints. Pretty small tbh. Was never planned as being something that would get printed.
I guess you could go to 150dpi and double the image size… but then pixellation & artifacts are a risk
I was wondering because I was thinking of making some one off 12"s with my own tunes, would be cool to have something like that printed on the sleeves. Just thoughts so far, nothing concrete.
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You could progress that degradation process even further and make a repeating pattern of it in a bigger size perhaps?
Absolutely. In fact degrading the quality might actually work with this sort of thing.
Just went even further with it.
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Dope.
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High res with some canvas texture would look dope I think.
So this one guy reached out to me a couple of months back and wanted to use one of my pieces as coverart for his debut album that dropped today.
Funfact: we studied at the same uni, ableit 1-2 years apart, I volunteered at a festival last year that he was supposed to play at this year etc. #smallworld
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCLTaIiBRff/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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I usually do images at 12" x 12" (album cover size) so that they look just as good when saved as a smaller image
Tempa template mockup. A lil’ bit of music alternate history. The B-side is by-the-numbers, while it was difficult to replicate the A-side filter effects cause I don’t know how to exactly get that effect.
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Yeah same, not sure why I went with such a weird size.
Nah, you’re in the right here. Fuck creating art with the intent of scalability and availability
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Make your image greyscale - adjust exposure & gamma correction.
Make a layer above it and fill it with your desired colour. Set blending mode to multiply.
Search google for TV lines images or TV static etc, and place that image above the original image
Set blending mode to screen - adjust exposure & gamma correction to taste.
Boom. Done.
All my music will be made in 96kbps now and only released on a zip disc for the same reasons
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Idk, not saying that but just that often starting with the framework of ‘this is going to be a piece of public/viewable/sellable’ Is very destructive to the creative process
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100% agree, I was reading something online about this exact thought yesterday. That we’ve forgotten how to create things just for the sake of creating, for fun, for peace of mind or whatever.
That we’ve been brainwashed into believing that everything we make must have the main function of being sellable or commodifiable. That the only goal is the hustle, and everything should feed into that.
I call bullshit.
I was being facetious with my zip disc comment but ironically, I think if someone did release music/art that was intentionally inaccesible and obscure then it would conversely make it more popular.
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Don’t over think it when it’s just for personal enjoyment. Same goes for all creative mediums.
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when is any creative thing a personal enjoyment? I struggle to do that. in every little thing I do I always have this search for validation or respect of others in the background. even if it’s learning some classical bit on guitar “for jokes” it boils down to when can I impress someone by playing it or making myself appear more interesting by knowing how to play classical guitar pieces. maybe that’s just me
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