Phracker

Artist, Art Hacker, Musician

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My Latest Abomination

Opal Gemstone by Phracker, visual art

Opal Gemstone

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Featured Glitch Art

Flow of Colors by Phracker, visual art

Flow of Colors

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Featured Animation

Creatures of Light and Darkness (Animation) by Phracker, visual art

Creatures of Light and Darkness (Animation)

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Featured Fractal Art

Julia Doubly Mapped by Phracker, visual art

Julia Doubly Mapped

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Featured Other

Feather Lithograph by Phracker, visual art

Feather Lithograph

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Grey-ace and MGTOW. In other words, I'm not interested.

The sections below showcase artistic styles that I more or less invented and that I wish to be known for:

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About Phracker

Artist // Hobbyist // Digital Art

June 25
United States
Deviant for 9 years
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My Bio

Merch | Prints | Music

"Lunatics are good at thinking outside the box."

-- TJ Kirk

PayPal donations welcome: phracker2@proton.me

I'm a computer hacker who uses tech skills in the creation of visual images. I'm diagnosed with high-functioning autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, which probably influence my art to some degree. My style is bold and edgy, with high contrast, bright colors, and an overall "techie" vibe. My primary tools are GIMP, Processing, and DreamUp, and I also use a text editor for databending. I'm also a musician and make electronic music, which I sell through my BandCamp site.

I'm a dark empath and a cerebral narcissist. I'm openly sexist but still support women's rights. Pro-capitalism and pro-business but against unmitigated free markets. Pro-reason and anti-stupidity. Pro-spirituality and anti-dogma. I'm a radical realist. I believe in viewing things as they are rather than as they ought to be, and that opinions should be based on objective inquiry rather than ideology. I support sexual liberation and de-stigmatization of nudity. I believe a thing is only bad if it causes tangible, measurable harm. Symbolic harm and offenses against morality are meaningless concepts. I value freedom and authenticity above all other things. I'm shamelessly Machiavellian without being dishonest. I'm known for being extremely generous at times and extremely callous at others. I am neither good nor evil, I am simply logical.

I do:

Glitch art

Generative art

Pixel art

Kaleidoscopic fractals

And lots of random experiments

Some miscellaneous stats:

Current operating system: Ubuntu Linux (Jammy Jellyfish) on my laptop, Windows 7 Home Premium on my desktop, also use Commodore 64, Raspberry Pi OS, and Arch Linux sporadically

Shell of choice: /bin/bash because I'm old-fashioned

Programming languages: C, Processing, Javascript, PHP, R, Commodore BASIC, bash, sed, awk, GNU Make, Ruby, TeX

Diagnoses: High functioning autism, ADHD, OCD, schizophrenia, bipolar I, temporal lobe epilepsy

Sexuality: Grey-ace, vorarephile, exhibitionist, submissive

Religion: Former atheist, current pantheist

Current net worth: Upwards of $15,000 total in cash, stocks, silver, and crypto

Current occupation: Unemployed, focusing on side hustles

Side hustles and online ventures: Day trading, art marketing, tech blogging, software development with GitHub, and selling my music

B E G I N N I N G

Favourite Visual Artist

M.C. Escher

Favourite Movies

The Matrix, Tron, Jack Reacher, Fight Club

Favourite TV Shows

South Park, Star Trek, Monty Python, Bloomberg

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Aphex Twin, frxgxd, XXXTentacion, Lorn, Machine Girl, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Sewerslvt, The Glitch Mob, Skope, Rhys Fulber, The Chemical Brothers, Dynatron, Squarepusher, Gunship, Gorillaz

Favourite Books

Anything nonfiction that I can learn useful or interesting information from. Honestly I don't read that much despite enjoying reading, because my attention span is shit.

Favourite Games

Doom, Quake, Nethack, Angband, Manyland, online chess

Favourite Gaming Platform

DOSBox, Commodore 64

Tools of the Trade

Nikon S9500, GIMP, Processing, Vim, HexEdit, Dall-E Mini, DreamUp, and sometimes my own body

Other Interests

Hacking and cyber-security, Unix/Linux, coding, mathematics, music composition, playing the piano, history, metaphysics, retrocomputing, blogging, investing, fitness training, true crime, 4D chess

The man, the myth, the legend

Innovations

I believe marketing is an essential part of art. I want to be an affluent artist, not a starving artist. That means I view my art venture as a brand, and I believe that a good brand is one that constantly innovates. Here are some of the innovations of the Phracker brand:

Hexels: Pixellated fractal art with diagonal pixels.
Noise art: Using statistical noise distributions for visual effect.
Deep horror: Exploiting the distorted nature of AI-generated art to produce uniquely horrifying creepypasta abominations.
Holofoil style: A style of glitch art that involves a unique combination of color separation, motion blur, databending, edge detect, and overlaying to produce an iridescent appearance.
Cosine bending: A form of databending that manipulates the parameters of the discrete cosine transform algorithm used to compress a JPEG.
Pre-glitch style: Glitch-like effect achieved by pixellating and then sharpening an image.
Code art: Art that combines imagery with computer code or ASCII/ANSI characters.
Raster art: Artwork made to look like a rendering by a raster scan on a vintage CRT computer monitor.
Edgecore style: A style of glitch art that involves applying cosine bending to get a blocky appearance and then applying vertical and/or horizontal shift lines to a get a vibe that's vaguely reminiscent of pixel sorting but still different.

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Fashionably Feathered

How to Draw a Feather

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On Art Hacking by Phracker, journal

On Art Hacking

Mar 4, 2022

Someone on this site asked me what art hacking is, so I decided I should probably write a journal entry explaining it. So here goes... "Art hacking" is a term I first encountered in 2015 when I was taking an adult education class that more or less focused on that subject. In this class we looked at different tools used to bring art into the Information Age - tools like Arduino, Processing, Inkscape, etc. For some reason I was the only person who signed up for that course, so the whole thing ended up being a one-on-one with me and the instructor. He introduced me to the concept of art hacking, which I will define as follows... Art hacking, at least the way I define it, consists of three related and overlapping activities having to do with digital art: Hacking art - that is, taking image files and dissecting them and manipulating the data in new and creative ways. There are various ways of doing this, including data bending, circuit bending, and pixel bending. Creating art using

On Art Hacking

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Other Interests and Ventures

Because I live on retard bucks, I have a shitload of free time to do whatever I want. Besides making digital art, I also do the following:

Computer programming
Mathematical research
Day trading
Digital music composition
Piano music composition
Hacking and cyber-security research
4Chan PSYOPS

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5 hours ago

There are two things you have to understand about psychopaths: One is that they are extremely petty, and even the most trivial injury to their ego will cause them to develop a lifelong grudge against you. The other is that no amount of retaliation or retribution is ever enough for them; no matter how miserable they make your life, no matter how many people they turn against you, they will never be satisfied with the amount of damage they've caused. I know this sounded a bit out-of-left-field, but I've had to revisit my relationships with a couple psychopaths that I made the mistake of pissing off years ago, since one of them is now living in my city and I seriously doubt that he's forgiven me for the time I disobeyed his direct commands ten years ago, which resulted in him trying to murder me and then getting evicted from where we were living. Best I can hope for is to learn his routine so I don't run into him, and hope that he has memory problems and has forgotten about that whole

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2 days ago

There's a difference between tough love and just being a dick. It's only tough love if you're actually rooting for the person to succeed. Like I've had staff at my disabled living facilities be real hard on me, but that's because they want me to get better and reach my full potential. On the other hand, when you hear conservatives talk about "tough love", they're typically rooting for the target of the tough love to fail. They're not interested in helping that person get better, they're interested in taking that person down a peg, for whatever reason, like maybe they're jealous of that person because that person gets free housing and health care due to a disability, and they want to take away their benefits. They're not hoping for that person to start grinding and build a business and become a millionaire, they're hoping for that person to die on the streets because in their eyes that person is "undeserving". The world will make a lot more sense to you when you realize that

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2 days ago

Featured Art

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Trying something new here. I'm gonna start featuring artworks from other artists that I like. [DEVIATION] I like @PersonalAmi because he's really good at drawing pussies. [DEVIATION] @COOLZONE17500 makes some of the most spectacular psychedelia I've ever seen. [DEVIATION] Courtesy of @julejeurissen . [DEVIATION] Synthography by @ArwaL1 . [DEVIATION] This one's from @GhostFreak-Artz . She does a lot of scenecore type stuff. [DEVIATION] @IaraSZ0 did some really nice art for the feather tutorial. [DEVIATION] @E1EV3NART does a lot of art with some really cool CRT effects. Anyway, that's all I'm featuring for now. I might feature more artists later. Go ahead and check out these artists, maybe give them a watch too.