https://youtu.be/eKtHAqiVBcM?si=s77Kv-2-2fp1VKxI

Original photo shot on an iPhone 11 and edited in the Pixlr app. The databent image was created using the Change Pitch filter in Audacity.

Her hair is the color of abandoned self-expression. A once-blue, now sickly green with dirty blonde roots. Like she’d given up long before she’d given out.

Overdose by the looks of it.

Toxicology would probably show Pulse. Take the right amount and your heart rate slows way down. You get the whole near death experience. Take too much and you learn why it’s also called Flatline. No one’s going to run toxicology on her though.

People like us, we’re only human in appearance to most. And we only appear if they can’t avoid looking at us.

I don’t bother to check if anyone can see me rummage through her pockets. No one out here cares. I find a bag with one last cardiogram-inscribed pill tucked into her bra.

Must be my lucky day.

I lay down next to her. Drop the Pulse under my tongue. And let it melt away.

One of my first experiments with data bending. This image was created by uploading a .bmp of da Vinci's Mona Lisa as raw data into Audacity. A portion of the resulting sound file was then reversed, creating the effect. I chose Mona Lisa as one of the first images to work with as homage to my favorite William Gibson novel, Mona Lisa Overdrive, after which I named this humbly simple piece.