{"id":27979,"date":"2025-03-26T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27979"},"modified":"2025-03-26T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:58:17","slug":"emitter-the-fluid-art-colour-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/03\/26\/emitter-the-fluid-art-colour-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Emitter: The Fluid Art Colour Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/emitter1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/emitter1.jpg\" alt=\"emitter1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roman De Giuli&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMd608zCEWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emitter<\/a> is a machine for producing and modulating paint drips whose smeared patterns are recorded with a high-definition video camera. This is another niche enthusiasm which YouTube has been encouraging of late: short videos of intense colours or patterns filmed in 4K or higher. De Giuli goes to more trouble than most when creating his vivid smears, on a technical level anyway. Beyond a certain point you have to start doing more with your colour splashes than stitching the best bits together with a house soundtrack. Looking at the YT comments reveals a horde of happy viewers so I&#8217;m evidently I&#8217;m not the ideal audience, especially when my CMYK-attuned eyes scream &#8220;Out of gamut!&#8221; whenever they encounter very intense RGB colour combinations. You can see more Emitter videos at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RomanDeGiuli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">De Giuli&#8217;s YT channel<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MetaFilter<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/emitter2-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/emitter2.jpg\" alt=\"emitter2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman De Giuli&#8217;s Emitter is a machine for producing and modulating paint drips whose smeared patterns are recorded with a high-definition video camera. This is another niche enthusiasm which YouTube has been encouraging of late: short videos of intense colours or patterns filmed in 4K or higher. De Giuli goes to more trouble than most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/03\/26\/emitter-the-fluid-art-colour-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emitter: The Fluid Art Colour Machine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Emitter: The Fluid Art Colour Machine","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[13900],"class_list":["post-27979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-technology","tag-roman-de-giuli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7hh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}