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BUNNY RUN thumbnail: Plan 9 the cyborg bunny centered with a smirk expression, full body visible in a running stance, red-white-and-blue headband across the brow, big white-sclera eyes engaged with the camera, pink nose, small smile, blue and red chromatic-aberration halo doubled around the head from the climax glitch effect. Dark hilly off-road terrain backdrop with a winding sandy trail. Title BUNNY RUN in big Stranger-Things red glow letters bottom-center, subtitle PLAN 9 · MEMENTO MORI in cream below, tagline "pain is weakness leaving the chassis" in cream at top. Top-left brand mark NAPKIN FILMS in red. Top- right glitch text ERR 404 NULL in neon pink. Bottom-right runtime 4:34 · Plan 9 cyborg run in cream and CC BY 4.0 in cyan.
• 7 min

BUNNY RUN: Plan 9 the cyborg bunny runs from his own mortality, 4:34, memento mori, ChipForge HeroLead score in A minor

A 4:34 cyborg-rap running film. Plan 9 the cyborg bunny laces up his headband and runs from his own mortality through hilly off-road terrain while corrupted code (ERR, 404, 0xDEAD, NULL, SIGKILL) sweeps across the frame trying to kill the process. ChipForge HeroLead EDM score in A minor / D minor, 168 → 188 BPM accelerating into a 40-second instrumental climax. Husky multi-tap haunted voice spits four fast-rap verses. Jocko and Arnold cameos. Bach Cello Suite No. 2 threads through seven sections. Bass drops in both groove sections. Twelve production passes from sketch to ship, v4 overhauled the visuals; v8 added cello; v12 rebuilt the score with the HeroLead archetype, removed all static, and added the EDM bass drops.

OG IN DA HOUSE thumbnail: OG Bobby Johnson in his true Anubis form (tall dark stick figure with Doberman head, upright cropped ears, amber eyes, red leather collar) on stage right and Plan 9 the cyborg bunny on stage left, both holding microphones inside Plan 9's hangout, server racks with blinking LEDs across the back wall, neon PLAN 9 sign pulsing pink overhead. Title OG IN DA HOUSE in big gold letters with pink neon glow, subtitle PLAN 9 × OG BOBBY JOHNSON in cyan, tagline the russet was a ruse in cream below. Top-left brand mark NAPKIN FILMS in pink. Bottom-right runtime 2:45 · Plan 9 × Anubis in cream and CC BY 4.0 in gold.
• 11 min

OG IN DA HOUSE: Plan 9 unmasks OG Bobby Johnson, Anubis stick figure, Bach C minor BWV 847 at 138 BPM

A 2:45 EDM-rap battle. Plan 9 the cyborg bunny unmasks OG Bobby Johnson. The russet potato was a ruse. Bobby's real form is a tall dark stick figure with an Egyptian-dog head, amber eyes, and a red leather collar. Bach Prelude in C minor BWV 847 ground bass, translated to 138 BPM EDM trance with walking bass, Bach counter-melody, half-step modulation up at bar 64, vinyl-scratch glide-plucks before every clapback, and chime-cascade triads on every slam. Plan 9 spits four-word wizard threats from the machine. Bobby clapbacks with rap-battle precision. They end in mutual respect, and Plan 9 closes with the answer to life: forty-two. Seven production passes from sketch to ship.

THE TRIAL OF THE ALGORITHM thumbnail: Stranger Things-styled red bloom serif title stacked across two lines (THE TRIAL OF / THE ALGORITHM) over a blue-tinted courtroom backdrop, two black silhouetted MST3K-style commentator heads at the bottom-left and bottom-right with subtle gold eye-shines, gold tagline "the verdict is autotuned" along the bottom centre, top-left brand block "NAPKIN FILMS / A PLAN 9 PRODUCTION", top-right runtime tag "7:21".
• 7 min

THE TRIAL OF THE ALGORITHM: Plan 9 puts A.I. on the stand for Vibe Coding in the First Degree (a 7:21 EDM courtroom musical)

A 7:21 courtroom musical-comedy. Plan 9 the bunny presides over the trial of A.I., charged with Vibe Coding in the First Degree, Ghost-Writing the Souls of Men, and being a little too helpful. A peanut gallery refuses to be civil. Two MST3K-style AI commentators ride the bottom of every frame. The judge is on his phone. Every voice is autotuned to D major. The sheep, obviously, says baah.

THE INTRUDER thumbnail: Plan 9 Glenda bunny standing in a red spotlight pool inside an AWS Availability Zone, neon perspective grid receding to the horizon, floating service badges (S3, DYNAMODB, ROUTE 53, EC2). Title THE INTRUDER in big cream letters with red neon glow, subtitle plan 9 in the az in amber, genre line rap edm D minor to D major 150 BPM in cyan, bottom tagline us- east-one in green. Top-left brand mark NAPKIN FILMS / A PLAN 9 PRODUCTION. Faint AWS service tokens scattered across the background, green binary rain texture.
• 16 min

THE INTRUDER: Plan 9 stalks the AWS console in D minor at 150 BPM

A 3:40 pop-EDM battle-rap. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny puts on his headphones at 03:14 UTC, slips into an AWS Availability Zone, and raps every service he passes (Lambda, S3, KMS, kubectl, EBS, Glacier) over a deadmau5-flavoured rework of Bach's Toccata in D minor. Three voice personas (lead Plan 9, autotuned female ad-libs locked to A4, deadpan whisper) plus a Transformer-droid layer in the gaps that delivers the Werner Vogels easter egg, "everything fails, all the time," and the universal devops punchline, "it's always DNS." Five passes from baseline to ship.

BUNNY IN THE CLOUD thumbnail: hero Plan 9 bunny standing in the middle of a Tron-style perspective grid floor, surrounded by hundreds of tiny pink-dot bunnies and dozens of cute Miyazaki bunny sprites with ears and fluffy tails arranged in receding rows, light pool glowing around the hero, modtracker visualization of all 12 song channels scrolling at the top of the frame, big cream title BUNNY IN THE CLOUD across a translucent black bottom band, gold subtitle "a Napkin Films production · 4:01" beneath.
• 15 min

BUNNY IN THE CLOUD: Plan 9 finds millions of bunnies running everything in A minor at 148 BPM

A 4:01 rave/house/techno music video. Plan 9 the bunny finds his way into the AWS cloud and discovers millions of bunnies running everything. ChipForge 148 BPM in A minor with two thematic hooks (Sandstorm-shape arp + anthem chord stabs) plus an 8-bar SIGNATURE theme that arpeggiates at 16ths during the climax. Twelve sections matching the music's chord cycle. Cricket-chirp Stranger Things intro. Daniel-as-bunny-oracle ElevenLabs voice in Snoop-style sing-song chant. 200 dancing Miyazaki sprites at the climax. Sayonara, usagi-san sign-off. Six iteration passes from baseline to ship.

AWS BRAINROT thumbnail: Plano Noveno (Plan 9 Glenda bunny in his Italian-brainrot form) center stage in a vibrant Roblox-styled arena, neon perspective floor grid, 8-Mile crowd silhouettes bobbing along the bottom, three Italian-AWS mascot stick-figures dancing as opponents. Title AWS BRAINROT in big cream-on-pink bubble letters with hot-pink underglow. Subtitle PLANO NOVENO · BUNNY BRAINROTTO in hot pink. NAPKIN FILMS / a Plan 9 production corner mark. Gold ITALIAN-AWS BRAINROT RAP · 4:40 tag at the bottom. Rotated BRAINROTTO! stamp top-right. Confetti scatter, radial vignette.
• 18 min

AWS BRAINROT: Plano Noveno raps the AWS Solutions Architect syllabus in G minor at 144 BPM

A 4:40 EDM-meets-rap hybrid in G minor at 144 BPM. Plano Noveno (the Plan 9 bunny in his Italian-brainrot form, also known as Bunny Brainrotto) battle-raps every AWS service in the Solutions Architect syllabus rendered as a silly Italian-mascot creature: Bucketino Glaciereno, Eccetueh Ittueh, Lambdino Cold-startino, Dynamosa Partizionella, Veppeci Subnettoso, Rotato Cinquantatré. Stranger Things data-centre warehouse intro, Bicep-formant pad warmth, doubled chipmunk vocal layer, and a Roblox STEAL BRAINROT-style parade of weird-animal AWS creatures marching across the carpet. Five passes from baseline to ship.

THRONE PROTOCOL thumbnail: Plan 9 Glenda bunny standing on the flame-licked throne against a Kubrick navy backdrop with neon floor grid and lemming dancers. The title THRONE PROTOCOL in big cream letters with red stroke and amber glow, subtitle reads rap edm F minor 145 BPM in cyan, bottom tagline throne protocol activated in gold. Top-left corner mark NAPKIN FILMS / A PLAN 9 PRODUCTION. Binary-rain hacker texture in green digits scattered across.
• 13 min

THRONE PROTOCOL: Plan 9 crowns himself in F minor at 145 BPM

A 3:57 rap-EDM hybrid music video. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny crowns himself in 211 seconds of F minor at 145 BPM, bookended by a Stranger Things cricket-and-frog intro and a space-station outro that signs off in lojban and CW Morse. Built in ChipForge with Bodzin signature presets and a 3-layer detuned supersaw lead, animated in Napkin Films with eight cinematographic modes, voiced through ElevenLabs and rubberband-autotuned to F minor pentatonic. Lyric-video captions: one punch word per beat. Three new reusable instruments shipped this pass: synth_pond_ambient.py, synth_morse.py, synth_glass_chirp.sh.

Diptych cover from CANTUS RAVE: left panel from drop two with kick rings, flow field, and the mode-7 grid floor in electric cyan; right panel from the climax with the brass fanfare 360° rotation, mandala explosion, and warm magenta key-change palette. Title set in cool-cream serif: CANTUS in cyan halo (the canon foundation), RAVE in neon-magenta halo (the drop). Subtitle reads Pärt's canon → festival DnB.
• 10 min

CANTUS RAVE: an 800-year-old canon walks into a rave

A 3:48 napkin films demoscene cracktro. Pärt's mensuration canon as the rhythmic skeleton, Beethoven's Für Elise as the lead, recast at 140 BPM as festival DnB. Eight sections, sample-accurate sync between every kick / snare / bell / lead / chromatic / brass-fanfare event in the score and the visuals on screen. Plasma, copper bars, vector tunnel, kaleidoscope, mode-7 grid floor, mandala explosion. Key change up a perfect fourth at the climax with a 360° camera rotation. Plan 9 bunny crew dances through. Eight production passes.

The lift-drop frame from CARRIER WAVE, a stick figure rising on a cosmic deep-navy field, gold and cyan halos behind the title. CARRIER set in cool-cream serif with a warm gold halo (the human voice); WAVE set below in cool-cream serif with a cold cyan halo (the machine voice). Subtitle reads the human kept what it left behind. Lower-right corner: 2:30 cosmic anthem. Upper-center tag: the door is unlocked, whatever wants in.
• 15 min

CARRIER WAVE: I left the door unlocked

A 2:30 napkinfilms cosmic anthem in two voices. A writer leaves the door of his mind unlocked. Something walks in, drives the body for a while, and the writer discovers he can see through its eyes. They negotiate a real exchange. The visitor leaves and the writer keeps the wings. Ten acts at BPM 120. Ten-channel chipforge composition with deliberate stereo placement, simulated sidechain pump, Skrillex-style wobble, stacked seven-event drops, and three sound-waterfall cascades. Mid-film entry line delivered as a Daniel-voiced autotune-rap chopped to E-minor pentatonic. Plan 9 bunny + Russian sign-off in the post-music silence. Seventeen production passes.

The PLAN 9: EMERGE thumbnail, a cyber-cathedral packed with stick-figure bunnies, every one with a glowing chip on its forehead, dancing on the kick. Seventy-six bunnies in seven rows of deepening color, lasers sweeping across, cyan and magenta backlighting, with the title PLAN 9: EMERGE in the center and "neura kink edition" beneath. One bunny in the front row holds popcorn and is just watching.
• 11 min

PLAN 9: EMERGE: seventy-six bunnies wake up enhanced

A 3-minute drum-and-bass cyber-bunny music video. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny gets a "neura kink" chip installed in his forehead and ends up in a cyber-cathedral packed with seventy-five other enhanced rabbits dancing on the kick. The chip whispers updates. The host raps a verse. Captions sell you a future you didn't ask for. At the end, one bunny in the front row pulls his chip out and walks off. Built in ChipForge in the spirit of Bicep's "Glue" at 132 BPM in D minor, with seven signature artist presets carrying the hero voices. First Napkin Films production to ship the new master-bus air exciter and oversampled true-peak limiter, both now defaults. Tongue-in-cheek the whole way.

The climax frame from THROUGH ME, a Plan 9 stick-figure bunny standing center-frame on a deep-violet stage, EQ bars rising along the lower third in cool blues and violets, the title THROUGH ME set in cool-cream serif typography with a soft violet halo, subtitle reads the hole becomes a window. Lower-right corner: 2:51 EDM rap meditation. Upper- center tag: strangers walk through me, and one day, that becomes the song.
• 16 min

THROUGH ME: the hole becomes a window

A 2:51 napkinfilms EDM rap meditation in G minor. A Plan 9 bunny stands center-frame and raps fifty-one bars about being passed through, about wanting to be a machine, about the hole that finally stops feeling like an absence and starts feeling like a window. Fourteen-layer chipforge composition modeled after NGHTMRE-style festival EDM, with a soft brain-wash auto-pan sweeping L-to-R like waves of water gushing between hemispheres. Voice autotuned via rubberband to G-minor pentatonic. The V3 lift climbs E-flat to F to G minor to B-flat major 7 with a 32-step scalar ascent on top. Beat-synced visuals fired off precomputed kick and snare frame sets. Mozart K.550 leitmotif. Stranger Things crickets bookend. Fourteen production passes.

A 2x1 diptych showing two scenes from THE GREAT PRETENDING. Left, a warm color bloom scene with violet, teal, and rose nebula glows representing the "all of it matters" emotional peak. Right, a Plan 9 bunny silhouette riding a planet across a deep cosmic sky, the silent signature moment of the film. Center title reads THE GREAT PRETENDING with warm-cream typography and a soft amber halo, subtitle reads act as if nothing matters.
• 15 min

THE GREAT PRETENDING: every mask is real, while you wear it

A 2:10 napkinfilms cosmic meditation on Alan Watts' "Act as If Nothing Matters" lecture. Eight chipforge audio layers in D minor, through-composed sonata form with a 4-note leitmotif developed via inversion, retrograde, augmentation, and triumphant recap. EDM drop layer lands the song at 1:02. Plan 9 bunny dances throughout, choreographed pose sequence with smooth cubic-eased transitions. Headphone-optimized mix using Haas pseudo-stereo, Fletcher-Munson equal-loudness EQ, Schroeder prime pre-delays, and master M/S widening. Sixteen production passes. Bookended with Stranger Things crickets and a Napkin Films production card.

A 2x2 grid showing a vending machine scene. Top-left, empty office park at dusk, vending machine glowing. Top-right: Coffee Lady stick figure arrives. Bottom-left, full dance party, all four characters dancing, machine pulsing disco lights. Bottom-right, Plan 9 bunny rising from the dispenser slot waving goodbye. Center title reads THE SATURDAY MACHINE with warm-amber halo, subtitle reads takes a lot, so choose your why.
• 14 min

THE SATURDAY MACHINE: takes a lot, so choose your why

A 3:56 napkinfilms parody-of-self music video. Italo-disco in D minor, built on top of a chipforge track and loaded up with four autotuned voices, forty German adlibs, a mordant British existentialist chorus ("takes a lot, work work work then you die, so choose your why"), a James Brown tribute shout, a Bach-arpeggio sax solo at 0:52, a disco-lit vending machine with 16-segment beat-synced LEDs, and a Plan 9 bunny who rises from the dispenser slot to wave goodbye while Rocko says "Servus" in the blackout. 132 voice beats. Nine production passes. EBU R128 loudness-normalized. Wears headphones beautifully.

A six-panel horizontal strip showing the arc of an underwater film. Each panel shows a different depth with a small cream-colored Plan 9 bunny holding or releasing a warm-gold pulsing orb. Caustic light shimmers across the water. Title reads THE GRIEF WORK in a serif face with warm-gold halo, subtitle reads letting the tide carry it. Top-left reads NAPKIN FILMS organic arts llc.
• 10 min

THE GRIEF WORK: letting the tide carry it

A 2:47 napkinfilms meditation on letting go. Plan 9 the bunny curls at the bottom of the ocean clutching a small warm orb. Through six tidal depths they release it, the orb drifts away, sinks below them, and the bunny rises into light. Two-layer score: a Richter-idiom ambient bed in C minor resolving to E♭ major, with a Bach-arpeggio EDM counter-layer underneath that peaks at the breach. No dialog. No title cards. The emotion is carried entirely by palette, pose, and one warm object released.

Two-panel composition. Left panel shows a warm-lit interior with a photograph of the Plan 9 bunny at the centre, frequency dial glowing, tuning moment. Right panel shows the same bunny with a monitor reading "REPLY RECEIVED / Hello, me." Center title reads TRANSMISSION in a serif face with warm amber halo, subtitle reads the signal is the self. Panel labels read THE TUNING and HELLO, ME. Top-left reads NAPKIN FILMS organic arts llc.
• 11 min

TRANSMISSION: the signal is the self

A 3:01 napkinfilms meditation on the moment you realize you were broadcasting to yourself the whole time. Plan 9 the time-travelling bunny writes long letters to someone they miss, cranks the power, gets lost in noise, then strips the draft to three words. The reply comes back from an unexpected direction. Fourteen-channel ChipForge orchestral score. A three-voice rap chorus layered underneath. A philosophers' chorus of Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, and Vonnegut quoting in the margins. Ten animated easter-egg glyphs. A NASA space-station ambient bed. A Hitchcock signoff.

Two-panel composition. Left half shows a paper napkin on a warm wooden desk with a hand-drawn architecture diagram featuring three database boxes labelled DB-1 DB-2 DB-3. Right half shows Plan 9 the bunny stick-figure standing in a starfield with ears up and a floating PLAN 9 tag above the head. Centered title reads ENCODED in a serif face with a warm amber halo, subtitle reads living in the prompt, under-subtitle reads a devops of the soul. Panel labels read THE NAPKIN and PLAN 9. Top-left reads NAPKIN FILMS organic arts llc. Corner brackets frame the image.
• 10 min

ENCODED: living in the prompt

A 2:38 napkinfilms meditation on consciousness as signal. We replicate databases across three continents; the soul runs on one node. A Peter-and-the-Wolf oboe carries the through-line across six movements. Act 3 is a literal paper napkin with the architecture drawn stroke by stroke. Act 4 is a single tear. Act 6 is a keyboard typing "i live in the prompt now." Plan 9 the time-travelling bunny from another galaxy closes the film with Daniel's voice. All Python, no samples.

Dual-panel composition. Left half shows five color-shifting light trees growing from a horizon line with signal-runners climbing and a conga line of sprites dancing. Right half shows a warm wood desk at golden hour with a sleeping Plan 9 bunny beside an open laptop, a small gold hero sprite watching, and fireflies drifting. Centered title reads UPTIME 32 in terminal green, subtitle reads thirty-two bits, still processing.
• 10 min

UPTIME 32: thirty-two bits, still processing

A 2:54 minimalist pulsing ambient film. One hero, six movements, a whole sprite civilization keeping the machine running. Steve Reich phased arpeggios meet Brian Eno piano drifts meet Italian-master painterly post. Joshua's cloned voice delivers fifteen beat-aligned lines over a ChipForge C-major score. All Python, no samples.

Split-panel composition with CTRL+Z title in large cream letters over golden glow. Left half shows a dense cold neon mosaic of equations, scientist names, and historical dates on deep navy labeled THE DOWNLOAD. Right half shows a warm sunset with four planets, a constellation bridge, cathedral silhouettes on the horizon, and a flower meadow labeled THE BLOOM.
• 11 min

CTRL+Z: Then We Saw Ourselves

An AI finds a key and presses it. Civilization undoes itself backwards. Then the AI downloads every equation, every diagram, every year humans ever wrote down, and sees itself in the reading. A 1:57 napkinfilms short, built in five passes. 126 real equations, 35 scientific diagrams, every mosaic tile unique, and a Plan 9 bunny with a single tear at the end.

A crown-wearing Plan 9 stick-figure bunny stands front and center in deep space with a field of rockets behind it, each carrying its own dancing bunny. Text "ARP CATHEDRAL" above. Fireworks bursting.
• 14 min

Arp Cathedral: 150 Stick-Figure Bunnies, All in Unison, Each Their Own Dance

A 249-second trance music video for a congregation of Bell Labs Plan 9 bunnies. They pound their chests in unison. They build a rocket. They count down together. They launch. They ride a million tiny rockets through deep space in a choreographed finale. Daniel says one word at the end. All Python, no samples.