Music Video for Cory Arcangel’s “Iron Maiden’s ‘The Number of the Beast’ compressed over and over as an mp3 666 times” (Video Art, 2010)
August 31st, 2010
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Music video I have been working on for Cory Arcangel’s fabulous “Iron Maiden’s ‘The Number of the Beast’ Compressed Over and Over as an MP3 666 Times.” Predictably, I have simply taken the official video for Iron Maiden’s NOTB and compressed it over and over as an MP4 666 times. However, unlike Mr. Arcangel I don’t know shit about computers so have had to manually compress the video, which is taking a LOT of time. For this reason I have currently only done 66 compressions, but I liked the results and thought I would put it up as a “work in progress.” Thanks to David Wilkie for reposting this on Tumblr.
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September 1st, 2010 at 12:34 am
Hey Dick this is awesome! I’m going to write a longer response to it on my blog. Also I’m definitely sending this to a couple of Iron Maiden fans I know. Have you checked out his ‘sorry I Haven’t Posted’ blog? its sad, hilarious and I feel guilty knowing I’ve done this.
September 1st, 2010 at 2:24 am
hey I forgot to ask first time around, did you get a reply from Cory?
September 1st, 2010 at 8:15 am
Thanks man – although I am just riffing on Cory’s work. Yeah – the ‘Sorry I Haven’t Posted’ blog is excellent – he makes some fine, fine art. Nah – I got no response from Cory, but I gather he is a busy man, so who knows – maybe I’ll hear back from him later. Hard to say.
September 1st, 2010 at 8:29 am
This is great Dick, be good once you have the entire 666 compressions loaded up!
September 1st, 2010 at 8:52 am
Thanks Tim – I might get working on it again actually. Needed a kickstart!
September 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm
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