Here's an interesting experience made on Youtube, to show what happens when a video is uploaded to Youtube, ripped from it and re-uploaded... a thousand times. "Canzona" did this, uploading its first video one year ago, and the last one on may 27nth. He made this as an hommage to Alvin Lucier who made the same experiment, recording his voice and then playing it again, re recording etc...
All thousand videos are available on Canzona's page, but here are ten videos to show the progression of the photocopy effect.
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 1 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 100 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 200 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 300 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 400 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 500 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 600 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 700 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 800 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 900 [Youtube]
I Am Sitting In A Video Room 1000 [Youtube]
This reminds me of Jean-No's experiment on the jpg format, in which he saved an image usign jpg compression 3 000 times.
thanks to opera for the wii, i can now watch youtube on my tv
we have gone full circle











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