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This is the original image:

Concept: Anonymity and hidden identities && Changing Personas on the Internet (Identity transformation)

Much like the chameleon, when we try to be anonymous by hiding our identity on the internet, we are attempting to camouflage ourselves by blending into the environment.   With this attempt to blend according to our surroundings, we may alter our reactions and perhaps even personas depending on the situation or the people we are communicating with. This is reflected with the colour changing characteristic of the chameleon. In turn, the glitch effect also represents this characteristic with the unpredictability of every change, especially the colours and patterns.

Glitch Attempt:

 

 

 

 

Process:

Initially, I used WordPad and Notepad to glitch my images. However, that did not work for me at all as with any small edit, the image will be broken. I referred to several tutorials online which mentioned that jpg and png images will easily be broken and that I have to convert them to TIFF or BMP for the images to work on WordPad and NotePad. Despite doing so, there was still no improvement.

I researched further and found that notepad++ may be a better platform for glitch art. Thankfully it worked!!

I begin with copying and pasting a few lines here and there and that resulted in the first image: fuzzy effect. I continued doing so for some time but did not see any significant changes in the image. I then tried a different approach and referred to the hex editor method recommended online.

This is the original text:

After changing it to HEX:

I replaced some alphabets and phrases here and there, in chunks first then followed by fewer lines. Tutorials also recommended that the effective replacement will be alphabets a-f and number 0-9.

 

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For micro project 4, I approach it in 2 ways:

1) Impromptu live interview @7am in the morning:

I have been taking the NTU shuttle bus for the past 3 semesters and I am quite curious about how other students/passengers think about the service so I decided to do a very short impromptu interview. In this video, I interviewed my lecturer for one of my modules this semester as well as the in charge (headcounter) for the shuttle service at the Marine Parade bus stop! As it is still quite early in the morning, it is hard to get my friends to come online promptly when my live streaming starts so I did not prepare that many audience/viewers. For the friends, I asked, quite a number of them couldn’t wake up in time. The bus will leave about 7.10am so I reached slightly earlier today and pre-empt my lecturer that I am doing a 3 min live broadcast and she was agreeable to be a participant in my broadcast. After the broadcast, I also asked if the Malay lady was okay with me posting this up for my project, I was quite glad that she agreed quite readily!

Here are some other comments left by my friends:

2) Nature- an expansion of my first video about birds:

On the topic of nature, I like the sense of continuity from the bird video in micro project 1 so I decided to find something similar to expand on! In the morning as part of my route from home to the shuttle bus stop, I will have to walk past this mini “Bird Park”. In a way, it is part of my daily routine hence this part of nature feels rather close to heart.

Here are some closer shots of them:

    

some other comments left by my friends:

This is actually the 2nd attempt of the video. The first attempt was at 6.45am in the morning with the mist but it is actually quite hard to video the birds so I went ahead to conduct my interview at the bus stop before heading back for a 2nd attempt on the way home.

Overall, micro project 4 is still quite interesting because I conducted my first live interview and I tried to engage people from the 1st space (physical space) as well as reacting to audience from the third space (replying in speech with live comments coming in)!

 

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Before Micro Project 3, I have never done any live videos or broadcasting, so it was a new experience for me.  I attempted several live videos, including 2 of them at the neighbourhood community garden with Instagram live before attempting another 2 live videos at the Bedok Hawker Centres with Facebook Live. When I was trying out the features at the community garden,  I didn’t know how to screen record with sound on my phone (forgot to enable mic) and was left with the videos muted. Hence after figuring out the issue, I decided to do a more impromptu broadcast about food recommendations at the hawker centre because I am a foodie and this is something I genuinely want to share with my viewers. The whole experience was really fun and as I was recommending the stalls in my videos, quite a few people sitting around who heard me along the way were staring at me with a questionable look. Nonetheless, I begin to find myself liking live broadcasting because of the spontaneity and that the content is really raw and unfiltered.