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‘botanical garden with white walls’

2025

8-bit drawing toy & circuitbent Mario Paint, analog blended with dirty mixer + TBC

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abstract compositions in amber phosphor 5 - 14

2024 / 2025

early 90s My First Sony video drawing toy on a Samsung monitor from the early 80s

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titlemaker verse i (2025)

I’ve had the urge to write lately, but doing it on cloud services and modern shit that’s probably gonna train bots on my words feels awful. instead I’m writing poetry on an MSX-based titlemaker with zero networking capability and treating it like a proto-writerdeck

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'fractal phosphor light paint: redux', 2025, long-exposure photos of CRT TV

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'i want to get away', 2021, composite of in-camera captures (analog oscilloscope and titlemaker on CRT)

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Ma'am you are so incredibly talented I stg, hope you're doing well ❤️

<3 <3 <3 awh thankyouu thank you!! i'm doing alright!!! i've been spending a lot less time on the internet these days but i misss u & I hope you and your family are doing well tooo!!!! sending so much love ur way ~

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oh man your art is amazing. any tips on how to get creating art with old tech like you do? I love the idea

thank you!!! <3 there are soooo many different ways to approach it. really any old CRT TV/monitor you can acquire is a perfect start. ask around if you don't have one, they might get harder to find but in my experience a ton of boomers still have em lying around (and will be overjoyed to part with them)!! as for camera, I used an iPhone SE for years and loved it, you don't need anything too fancy.

if the CRTs are all dead or no longer easy to find, you can definitely use an upscaler and a capture card. don't let the CRT hunt scare you away; it's like a tube amp but for visuals. it's not gonna make or break good art, and i've used a capture card for a different aesthetic as well! it's just one of many ways to render the analog signal.

beyond that, if you already have a digital art style or have the discipline to develop one, just pick up a copy of Aseprite and an HDMI to composite converter and you're good to go! whether you learn traditional pixel art techniques to adapt, or just downscale your art style, it's a pretty low barrier to entry there.

if you're more hands-on and want a glitchy aesthetic, the Dirty Video Mixer by Karl Klomp is a go-to first build. a camcorder + VCR/DVD player + dirty mixer combo is a classic setup for video artists. or if you're more into software, you can build an 8-bit creative code machine with an ESP32 devkit; there's an Arduino library for analog video based on Sega Master System emulation.

if you want to do the vector-style aesthetics like my oscilloscope pieces, look into 'oscilloscope music'! I personally use OsciStudio hooked into Blender, but there's free software as well.

last but not least, just follow your sense of wonder, experiment, try whatever. except don't open up the case of your CRT TV because it has super high voltages even when unplugged and will kill you

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'telefragging.gif', 2021, composite of analog oscilloscope and CRT shots

inspired by a mechanic from a very old game called Quake

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abstract composition in amber phosphor IV (2024)

8-bit drawing tablet on amber CRT monitor

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abstract composition in amber phosphor III

2024, early 90s drawing toy on early 80s amber CRT monitor

6020x4024 digital photo

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new millennium, new york (2024)

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abstract composition in amber phosphor II

2024, early 90s drawing toy on early 80s amber CRT monitor

6020x4024 digital photo

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abstract composition in amber phosphor i

2024, early 90s drawing tablet on early 80s amber computer monitor

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some shots from the video I did for @ekkoastral’s on brand from their new album pink balloons <3

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‘wrath goddess sing///betteroffdead’, 2023, mixed media (mostly stop motion + VHS)

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demotape_1989.GIF (2023)

pixel art x analog glitch

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‘something sinister’

2023

circuitbent SNES