RNDM in the wild
It’s been great to see people posting images generated with RNDM - I’ve received such good feedback and it’s sparked some interesting chats with other Substackers. I was particularly blown away by this write up from – a huge thanks to Michael for including me in your excellent Substack and to for tipping him off about the project. Duane’s posts have become one of the high lights of my week so make sure you give him a follow.
Michael brought up a couple of great points in his article that I had also been thinking about. He proposed the idea of “open sourcing” the project for others to adapt, this was actually something I was working on and it is now available - check out my GitHub for all the original source files. If you do happen to adapt RNDM into something new, please let me know! I’d love to follow it’s evolution.
Secondly he mentioned the ability to save images directly from the browser. I began work on this idea by attempting to rebuild the app using the JavaScript Canvas API but quickly realised the aesthetics would be compromised as it renders the blend modes differently. This became a dead end and I abandoned the idea and began looking into other methods.
After some research I managed to cobble together a very user-unfriendly way to create high resolution captures. The setup is powered by Node.js (to run scripts outside the browser), npm (to install dependencies), and Puppeteer, a library that automates Chrome. The script is run from terminal which means you need a little familiarity to get things setup and running, not ideal but it does work and exports the compositions at a decent size. The biggest downside is that you can’t see what you are exporting as everything is generated behind the scenes, once the script is run a high resolution (4x) image appears magically on your desktop.
It works, but it isn’t ideal. I’d rather find a way to build an export function into RNDM as a feature so watch this space!
Analog glitch experiments
I’ve been working on some more analog glitch photography and and video.
The video footage will be used in an upcoming Eyes of Your Eyes lyric video that is currently in production at PostIdol Media. I spent some time scouring archive.org for unusual old footage and found some educational videos that fit the theme well. What a great resource!
I’ve been experimenting with glitching some portraits but don’t have a particular project in mind yet, hopefully the muse hits soon! Here is an example from some recent test shots. I love the detail that the macro lens captures.
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