film/data bending commentary

The aims of the film and data bending portions of project three were oriented around depictions of mortality and the disintegration of friendships/relationships as a function of time, respectively. Regarding the latter, by copying large portions of the code and pasting them to areas where they shouldn't be, sizable, intact parts of the jpgs were superimposed/transposed elsewhere. This is most prominently exemplified by the floating outline in the photo that shows me gazing at a sunlit lake. Additionally, when looking at the pictures that I would later manipulate, I felt a stark discrepancy between their crispness and the comparatively poor quality of my memories of those times; thus, I felt compelled to show the images as they would be if they experienced a degree/rate of decay similar to that which my neuronal networks apparently do. In terms of the film part, I was attempting to provide an overarching tension between the beautiful aspects of life and the heavy harshness/oppression that can exist in the same demesne. Admittedly, however, I was focused less on the conceptual basis of the film and more on the technical procedures that went into editing it. As a side comment, the factory farming component of the film would likely make a large impression, but I didn't intend for it to; It just appeared because of my compromised timeline for obtaining footage.