i had a dream about mark zuckerberg and bread (the bread part isn't unusual. i like bread). but i thought about a nondescript zuckerberg (is there any other thing?) trapped as bread screaming but also completely out of his mind.
anywho, when i woke up, i made this.
there's no sound because i can't imagine bread zuckerberg making a sound. he may have a mouth but he cannot scream.
Generative work where each object represents a person trying to consume another person. if touched, a defense response of spiraling is triggered. Audio generated by video analysis of objects, movement, defense mechanisms and consumption
inspired by the computer program in the movie Pulse
main code in processing, audio via python
changes involve more defensive maneuvering yet compulsion to seek, the defensive spiral has been changed to a fibonacci spiral
Generative work where each object represents a person trying to consume another person. if touched, a defense response of spiraling is triggered.
Audio generated by video analysis of objects, movement, defense mechanisms and consumption
inspired by the computer program in the movie Pulse
I don't like fiction for the same reasons I'm bugged by sunrises and sunsets. It's inaccurate for 99.9% of the relatable lived experience. Obviously, some genres are more relevant than others in terms of being mimics of human existence but what I'm talking about is the boredom. The sheer tediousness of actual existence. There are few stories that push a reader through a week of someone's life where all the character does is mundane drolleries. Even dystopias are made to look action packed and slightly better than the everyday.
But, about the sun.
Sunrises and sunsets constitute a very small fraction of the total day. People eagerly wait for them and watch them, photograph them, film them, etc. They get painted and written about - put on travel brochures and used to sell things. It's a creepy orgy of obsessed people waiting for the thing to either show up or disappear but when it's around? Where are those people then?
Few people give a shit about the sun at 1PM.
No one's waiting for that sun. It shows up in people's photographs like an awkward stranger in the background of a family vacation. "Oh, sorry guys! I'm in the way, just let me move real quick" the sun says as it hustles behind a cloud and out of view.
Sure, there are those who go out to work on their tan in that sun but it knows (like we all know) that it's just being used for it's radiation like the cheap star that it is.
One could say that the sun get's plenty of appreciation for rainbows and coming out after the storm but does it? No one's looking at the sun because there's a big fucking rainbow right there in the sky and everyone is like "oooooohhh!!!! rainbow!"
Well here's to you, Mr. Dayball. No one likes you but you do stuff anyways.