Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast music video by Dick Whyte
September 2nd, 2010Another music video project from Dick Whyte. This time a video for Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast, except its different.
Internet artist Cory Arcangel has compressed the song MP3 666 times now Dick has done the same to the video with 66 compressions to date, hopefully we’ll see more.
What I love about this video is the interstitial space these images occupy. They look almost abstract. Everything blends into each other its all muted. When you think about it the compression artefacts are slowly spreading and subsuming the original. Its the end of the tyranny of representation. You sort of know what’s going on but you can imagine anything.
Great stuff.
