Humagent, and the Road There: Six Films, One Session, One Engine
Six animated short films built in a single working session. A registry-based expression system, a Shot/ShotList abstract...
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The Reckoning: Ten Minutes of Stick Figures Arguing with God
A ten-minute animated theological tribunal in stick figures and chiptune. Five voices, four audio layers, 78 MST3K-style...
Chapter 17: Community
For six months, I worked alone with this workflow, afraid to share it. Then at a Python meetup someone said 'You too?' T...
Stars Press Start: 21 Passes to Make TTS Perform
A 105-second music video built in 2 days and 21 passes: a Nevada stargazer sees constellations as arcade sprites, gets a...
Chapter 16: Becoming
There's a moment in any transformation when you stop observing the change and realize you've become it. Not learning. No...
Deduct Yourself: A Tax Day Hallucination
A 78-second absurdist tax-day music video about the tax code's open secret, an AI bunny oracle, double-time rap, and Gri...
Chapter 15: The Great Unleashing
You get used to the walls. You stop seeing them as walls and start seeing them as reality. Then AI removes them, and eve...
HUMANS.EXE and Ten Thousand Days: Day Two at Napkin Films
Day two at Napkin Films: a Hitchhiker's Guide-style field guide to the human operating system, and a meditation on ten t...
Four Films From Code: Stick Figures, Chiptunes, and the AI Director's Chair
Four animated short films, written entirely in Python, scored with numpy-synthesized chiptunes, voiced with cloned speec...
Pixel Vault: A Playable Museum of Game Design History
Every prototype is one HTML file. Under 50KB. No frameworks, no CDN, no npm. Double-click and play. Pixel Vault is a gro...
Elnath: Decan 3 - Expansion & Boldness (April 9-18)
The photons entering your eyes tonight left Elnath in 1894, a year of bold expansion in every domain. This blue-white gi...
Decan 2: What Holds When You Are Tired
Aldebaran spent six billion years doing invisible work before it became one of the brightest objects in the sky. Decan 2...
Chapter 14: The Weight of Creation
Every generation of builders faces the moment when they realize the thing they are creating is not just a tool. It is po...
Aldebaran: Decan 2 - Foundation & Endurance (March 30-April 8)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Aldebaran in 1960. This K5 III orange giant spent six billion years on the...
Alhena: Decan 6 - Communication & Intellect (May 9-18)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Alhena in 1916. This white subgiant burns at 9,260 Kelvin, pouring most of...
Altair: Decan 19 - Vision & Speed (September 16-25)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Altair in 2008. This A7 V white main-sequence star rotates once every 8.9 ...
Antares: Decan 16 - Transformation & Willpower (August 17-26)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Antares in 1475. This red supergiant, 680 solar radii across, is simultane...
Arcturus: Decan 14 - Wisdom & Guidance (July 28 - August 6)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Arcturus in 1988. This orange giant started with the Sun's mass but only a...
Canopus: Decan 10 - Navigation & Purpose (June 18-27)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Canopus in 1715. This yellow-white supergiant is the second brightest star...
Deneb: Decan 20 - Creativity & Transcendence
The photons entering your eyes right now left Deneb around 590 BCE, from the age of Pythagoras and the Buddha, when the ...
Denebola: Decan 12 - Reform & Intuition (July 8 - July 17)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Denebola in 1989. This white star at the tail of the lion hosts a debris d...
Nunki: Decan 18 - Knowledge & Direction (September 6-15)
The photons arriving from Nunki tonight left the star in 1797. Its name is Sumerian, five thousand years old, coined by ...
Pollux: Decan 7 - Duality & Relationship (May 19-28)
The photons entering your eyes tonight left Pollux in 1991. This orange giant, the closest evolved star to Earth, is bri...
Procyon: Decan 8 - Loyalty & Courage (May 29 - June 7)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Procyon in 2014. At 11.46 light-years, this is not ancient light. It is re...