Glitch Art Dot Com

As a man who blubbers over every discarded photo album I find at Good Will I can really get behind the Rescued Film Project. They collect and process undeveloped rolls of film sent into them from all over the world.  Their sights appear to be set on anything from the 1930’s to the 1990’s.  The images are then digitized and curated on both their web site & blog which I highly recommend.  While never explained at what point in the digitization process it occurred a recent batch of photo scans produced unintended results.  Unintended but not unwelcome.  More of this please.

Thanks to a mysterious software bug that occurred while scanning these joyful family photos, probably from the 80s, strange colourful shapes swarmed the peaceful scenes, harmonizing with the colour palette of the original negatives. The results are stunning. I personally almost feel like Neo from Matrix, when he starts to see the code.

“Is this real life?” asks the Rescued Film Project. I say: this might be the fabric of our world.

From Gizmodo. Glitch art images courtesy of the Rescued Film Project, republished here with permission.