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Phracker

Artist, Art Hacker, Musician
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Second Single Just Dropped!

Phase Modulation - by Phracker (Click to listen)

Neon Diamond (My First Processing Project)

Experience Phrackwave - a fusion of breakcore and retro gaming music.

Newest Deviation

Featured Product (Click on the image to purchase)

Lone Wolf Pixel Art T-Shirt

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

It Slips Through Your Fingers
Royal Mandala
Cybercritter
Cross Glitch
Progressive Corruption (Animation)
Moshhiiu
Lunardropworld
bugraddkmenli
dccomicrecords
dreamyfractalend
GunderStar
david30084
caacxx
jojoiwi
EntityOA
Junke1
AssemSalh
Artist // Hobbyist // Digital Art
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My Bio

Merch | Prints | Music


PayPal donations welcome: phracker2@proton.me


Brief personal info: 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. I use GIMP for most of my digital art. I also make electronic music in a subgenre that I call phrackwave. Click the Music link above to hear it.


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

Psychedelic art

Mathematical art

Tech stuff

Nude selfies

Dark art

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: Pansexual (mostly hetero) grey-ace, vorarephile, exhibitionist, submissive


Current net worth: Upwards of $10,000 total in cash, stocks, silver, and crypto


Current occupation: Unemployed, focusing on side hustles


Side hustles and online ventures: Day trading with Fidelity, art marketing, tech blogging, software development with GitHub, digital music composition (I've been procrastinating on releasing my album)


B E G I N N I N


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, various Monstercat artists, various glitchcore artists
Favourite Books
Tech books from O'Reilly or math books from Dover Publications
Favourite Games
Currently playing some BBS door games and games on my C64
Favourite Gaming Platform
DOSBox, Commodore 64
Tools of the Trade
Nikon S9500, GIMP, Processing, Vim, HexEdit, Dall-E Mini, and sometimes my 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


Pixel Self Portrait

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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Arc is Long: You participated in LGBTQ+ Pride Month!
Arc is Long
Lucky Shamrock: You made it rain gold coins!
Lucky Shamrock
Hype: You got hyped up! (7)
Hype
Diamond: It's the highest of honors to be awarded an exclusive Diamond badge! (2)
Diamond

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On Art Hacking by Phracker, journal

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

Protip: If any scammers start showing up in your DMs, just tell them to fuck off in the rudest, nastiest way possible. I've determined that there are actual human users behind these accounts, and they do react emotionally to shit. I know this because I've had scammers block me after I was rude to them. A bot wouldn't do something like that. If these scammers experience nothing but hostility from the people they're trying to scam, then eventually they'll just give up and stop creating new accounts when they get banned. Do your civic duty as a legitimate user of this platform to get rid of the scammers before they completely take over DA and turn it into a cyber-crime cesspool. The massive uptick in scammer activity on this site over the last year is very concerning to me, and I think it's urgent that people address this problem before it destroys our community.
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[image] How about E: All of the above. Like, you know those four choices aren't mutually exclusive, right? I don't see the contradiction.
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I feel this constant temptation to just start paywalling my art and adding subscription tiers, because everyone who does that seems to be making bank. Not to mention, the DeviantArt algorithm seems to be promoting paywalled content at the expense of free content lately, probably because they make money by taking a percentage of the subscription fee. Who knew people would pay top dollar just to be able to view or download random AI-generated JPEGs that they can just generate themselves for free? And without even seeing what they look like beforehand to know if they're even good or not. Like, why are you clicking "Subscribe" when the only preview you're getting is just a big amorphous blur? You literally have no information about what you're buying. How is that enough to entice people?
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Thank you for the fave!!!

As Easter blooms with the promise of spring, I extend heartfelt wishes to you and your loved ones for a day brimming with joy and togetherness. May the gentle whispers of hope fill your hearts as you gather around the table, sharing laughter and cherished moments. Let the colors of Easter eggs and the scent of freshly baked treats remind you of the beauty of new beginnings and the abundance of blessings in your life. Here's to a celebration that illuminates your soul with the light of love and renewal. Happy Easter! 🐰🌷🥚

That was kinda out of left field, but I appreciated the gesture. :flirty:

Thanks for the faves, appreciated as always my friend! 😊

Thank you for the Fav!

Thanks for watching me!❤️