Phracker - Hobbyist, Digital Artist | DeviantArt (original) (raw)
Artist
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Hobbyist
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Digital Art
- June 25
- United States
- Deviant for 8 years
- linktr.ee/phracker
- He / Him
My Bio
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:
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
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
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
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.
Galactic Lightsaber
Diamond
Silver Fragment
Golden Fella
Hype
Donation Pool
Support my art!
I'm e-begging, because why not? 
10000
Goal
22
Donors
Status
1330/10000 points
Llama Farm
Post Spotlight
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
Next time someone tells you that the American people chose Trump, just remind them that the top Google search the day after the election was "How do I change my vote?"
Wow, the front page is actually showing me my own art. I've never seen it do that before.
Today I learned that the US is the only country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Not just the only developed country, but only country, period. That's pretty fucked up if you ask me. Just remember this next time some conservative says that you can't touch rich people's money because they'll just take their business elsewhere. There is nowhere else for these business magnates to go, because there is no other country on Earth that is more biased in favor of the owner class and against the working class than the US.
Profile Comments 7.2K
Thank you for adding my illustration to your favorites. Greetings from Argentina, expect more images this week...
so much for your support !!
Don't know what that's supposed to mean, but okay. 