Breaking Bad

Summary

A motion experiment running Breaking Bad footage through a real-time AI segmentation model, generating vivid glitch artifacts, bounding boxes, and normal maps that fragment and distort each frame.

Visual description

A cut-out photograph of a man in a green button-up shirt and no trousers stands in a desert, raising a pistol in one hand and holding a camera in the other, with a dusty camper van behind him. Computer-vision overlays sit on top, including small tags reading Person, vehicle and rock, and a fan of thin red, blue, yellow and white lines connecting points on the van and rocks. The photo is ragged and eaten away at the edges, with torn fragments flying off the cliff at upper right and the rest dissolving into a pale grey-white background.

Key takeaway

Show the machine's perception as part of the picture, with bounding labels and connector lines drawn over the scene. Let the segmentation mask erode the image edge so the glitch is the visual identity.

Reuse notes

Reach for this as a motion still reference. Pairs with abstract, experimental directions. Original by Ingi Erlingsson.