Apart from his music and sometimes brash self-promotion, Kanye West is best know for wearing his distinct “shutter shades”- slatted sunglasses custom designed for him by Alain Mikli. While there have been knockoff designs of the sunglasses in almost every retailer as of late, website F.A.T. is offering the first ever Kanye-vision bookmarklet claiming to allow the user to “view the internet the way Kanye sees it”.
Bookmarklet and download available at F.A.T.
May 14, 2009
Kanye-Vision: Surf the Internet Kanye West Style
February 18, 2009
Anti Hi-Def Glitch Style
Datamoshing. It’s a video editing style that’s exactly as the name sounds. The look is achieved by messing around with video compression keyframes and roughing up the data until a beautiful, choppy, psychedelic mess ensues. Think of a video signal royally glitching up, and you get the idea. Kanye West uses this style in his recent “Welcome To Heartbreak” video (below) and check out Chairlift “Evident Utensil” for more mind-melting fun.
The idea of glitch based art is nothing new, but it seems to be enjoying a renaissance. Maybe it’s an anti high definition backlash – or visual representation of future [...]




