Circuit BreakA
A Demonstration of visual effects that can be achieved through the physical intervention of digital cameras
The camera hiding in your grandma’s attic with rusted batteries and a scratched lens has a body and a brain. By simply connecting wire to specific sections of your camera’s circuit board, you can bend and alter how it captures images, bringing new life to it.
After hearing about “Circuit Bending” online and learning of its capabilities to edit camera footage in real-time, I knew I had to try it out. All I needed was some copper wire, a stupid amount of digital cameras, and my wits about me!
The Circuit BreakA publication teaches you the coolest skill that you never knew you needed – Circuit Bending.
By targeting current towards specific parts of your camera’s circuit board you can create awesome new effects, and all it takes to learn is the blood several old cameras that you are willing to cut all emotional ties with and cast into the fire.
After hearing about “Circuit Bending” online and learning of its capabilities to edit camera footage in real-time, I knew I had to try it out. All I needed was some copper wire, a stupid amount of digital cameras, and my wits about me!
The Circuit BreakA publication teaches you the coolest skill that you never knew you needed – Circuit Bending.
By targeting current towards specific parts of your camera’s circuit board you can create awesome new effects, and all it takes to learn is the blood several old cameras that you are willing to cut all emotional ties with and cast into the fire.
As most feel enchanted by the grain and warmth of film or are enticed by the crisp clarity of DSLR, it is easy to forget about
the time in which we were trading quality for commodity. Footage from early household digital cameras looks shit. For this very reason, they have now all been forsaken into scrapyards and car boots.
This project serves as an ode to the cameras we’ve forgotten, and to the ones we’ve lost along the way.
This project serves as an ode to the cameras we’ve forgotten, and to the ones we’ve lost along the way.
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