Today's project is a group time travel brief. We came up with a bizarre acid sci-fi epic inspired by the jazz musician Sun Ra. Turns out he actually made a blaxploitation film that's weirdly similar to our concept. Here's my pitch:
The lone survivor of an apocalyptic disaster on Saturn, Sun
Ra constructs a device known as the Arkestra, a kind of futuristic chariot that
operates like a musical instrument and allows for temporal-spatial travel, leaving
the remnants of his vibrant Egyptian-like civilisation for the monochromatic
bars and streets of Chicago's jazz scene. After witnessing the oppression on
Earth and gaining a cult following for his mystic wisdom and musical prowess,
he leads his newfound disciples back to Saturn to become the foundation of the
utopian society he initially lost. This creates a stable time loop that brings
us back to the beginning of the story, thousands of years later.
Obviously, I instantly appointed myself the group's narrative theorist, because I'm just that kind of guy, but I think it's an interesting foundation for some mad illustrationz, yo! I also kind of stumbled my way into glitch art and databending. Databending is the process of editing the code in an image to alter it visually. I thought it could be a pretty cool way of visualising temporal-spacial anomalies like time travel.
Below are some experiments. The first few are 2001: A Space Odyssey on acid. But, like, more than usual.
The next set are like Saturn rendered by a ZX Spectrum, loaded off a tape deck.
I dig it. It's kind of like printmaking. Every image you databend is unique, with its own imperfections and happy accidents. The fact that it's made digitally only makes it more special.
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