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Title card for SAME NERVE, Song 08 of Out of Your Mind: a split frame, a stick-figure bunny on a jagged red nerve in cold blue on the left and the same figure on a smooth gold wire in warm light on the right, one nerve, two readings, a Napkin Films production
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SAME NERVE: an Alan Watts mirror-song where pain and pleasure share one wire

SAME NERVE is Song 08 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about pain and pleasure: the same nerve fires for both, and the suffering is the resistance, not the sensation. So the song is a literal mirror, the same melody and the same words harmonised first in C minor and then in C major, while a Plan 9 bunny walks the nerve like a wire and learns to ride the pulse it used to brace against. CC BY 4.0.

ONLY LIFE blog hero. A radiant warm amber bloom at the center of a dark field, rising embers around it, the warm core of life the film blooms into.
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ONLY LIFE: a machine of coherent complexity, undone

The opposing view of coherent complexity. A cold blue machine of rings and gears and towers cracks, collapses, and reveals a warm breathing core of life that blooms to fill the frame. F minor trap, a Bavarian philosopher voice, and a Sanskrit chant of darkness into light.

Title card for Making Complexity Legible, Case I of The Cartographer of Complexity: a stick-figure cartographer over a wireframe grid beneath the line chart the ocean, don't shrink it, a Napkin Films production
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Making Complexity Legible: a beat-locked spit-rap on charting complex systems

Making Complexity Legible is Case I of The Cartographer of Complexity, a new Napkin Films series about Making Complexity Visible. The idea: you cannot make a complex system simple without deleting what made it work, so you do not shrink the sea, you learn to read it. A tidal-EDM spit-rap, Plan 9 and OG Bobby trading bars over recomposed Telemann, with a cartographer bunny who roams a sea that brightens as it becomes legible. CC BY 4.0.

Title card for EGO IS AN INCH, Song 07 of Out of Your Mind: a stick-figure self dissolving into copies behind the words the looking is the looker, a Napkin Films production
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EGO IS AN INCH: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the self you can never grab

EGO IS AN INCH is Song 07 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about the ego: an abstraction like an inch or a line of longitude, useful for measuring and impossible to pick up, because the thing reaching is the thing reached for. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over Mussorgsky's grotesque Gnomus reborn as Eb-minor EDM, while a Plan 9 bunny, recast as the inch itself, taunts from just out of reach. CC BY 4.0.

ATTENTION IS THE LOOM hero. A stick figure bunny between two looms, the orderly front and the knotted back, a constellation woven into the cloth. Out of Your Mind, Film VI.
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ATTENTION IS THE LOOM: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap where the loom does the dancing

ATTENTION IS THE LOOM is Song 06 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about attention: what you attend to becomes the cloth, and the rest falls through. The front and the back of the embroidery are both true, and the gap is the rhythm. This pass rebuilt the motion from scratch so the loom actually weaves and the camera dives through the cloth to its knotted back. CC BY 4.0.

THE GAME INSIDE hero. A stick figure bunny on a lit stage holds a blazing golden sun in its hands, the red curtain behind it. Out of Your Mind, Film IV.
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THE GAME INSIDE: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the cosmic game of hide and seek

THE GAME INSIDE is Song 04 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about the game of hide and seek that consciousness plays with itself. Life is a play. The central self is playing every part. The only rule is to forget you set it up. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over Bach's Goldberg Variations re-composed into G major EDM, and the Plan 9 bunny answers back as the player who keeps finding him. CC BY 4.0.

THE GRAND TOUR blog hero. A radiant golden bloom at the center of a dark field, a spiral of light opening at the golden mean, the climax of the film.
• 10 min

THE GRAND TOUR: a two-voice film where the picture is the physics

A two-voice music film where the picture is the physics. A small AI crew raps the lecture, Pythagoras and the pure ratios and the golden mean, and then the maker's own voice takes the bloom. The visuals are the math, rendered as light, every pulse read straight from the track.

BIG BRAIN TEST thumbnail. Glowing marquee-bulb sign across the top reading BIG BRAIN TEST, sitcom game-show stage in deep purple-black with red and blue side spotlights, three contestants on lit podiums: minimalist stick-figure cyborg bunny on blue (left), tall stick-figure with Doberman head and red collar on red (center), stick-figure with green Alpine hat and white feather on gold (right), three small silhouette hecklers in the bottom corners, gold tagline at the bottom reading "a dedication to Ben Gleib", runtime tag 1:30 in the top right.
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BIG BRAIN TEST: a Napkin Films dedication to Ben Gleib (1:30, EDM rap-game-show with five peanut gallery comics)

A 90-second comedy dedication to Ben Gleib. Plan 9 the bunny, OG Bobby Johnson (Doberman Governor), and Der Gouverneur (Bavarian philosophical clone) take a televised brain-teaser game show hosted by a fast-talking warm-roast comedian who cannot believe how wrong everyone is. A peanut gallery of five comics riffs from the corners and the void. The triangle has eight sides. Or three. Or RING. We pay either way.