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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.

Apr 20, 2026 • 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 stick-figure bunny stands front and center in a black starfield crowded with rows of white rockets, smaller bunnies riding them, flames at every tail

Apr 19, 2026 • 14 min

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

A trance music video for 150 stick-figure Plan 9 bunnies who pound their chests on the beat, build a rocket, count down and launch. How one beat-weight curve keeps every dance in sync.

Title card reading PLAN 9 RAP BATTLE in pink letters over a stick-figure bunny in a red bandana against a dark brick wall with red paint splats, with the lines a napkin films production, MMXXVI and certified

Apr 19, 2026 • 9 min

Plan 9 Rap Battle: A Bunny, a Beat, and 40 Bars of Machine Spit

The Plan 9 bunny raps 40 autotuned bars in a 3AM alley over a sparse trap beat. How TTS, rubberband pitch correction and two layered ChipForge scores got it as close to a rap as it gets.

Six-panel blog header for I Want to Be Martian: Ligeti starfield, porch longing, chorus, rocket liftoff, Kubrick corridor upload sequence, and rover on Martian regolith

Apr 18, 2026 • 8 min

I Want to Be Martian: A Stick Figure Love Letter to Space and Bradbury

A 122-second animated short in six acts: a stick figure and his wife dream of uploading to Mars. Three voices, a Holst-Mars ostinato, Ligeti tone clusters, and a rover on Mars in 2035. For Bradbury.

Title card reading HUMAGENT, Don't build agents, become humagent, over a row of gray stick figures with one center figure glowing orange, arms raised, under the words imagine, dare, soar, shine, become

Apr 17, 2026 • 5 min

Humagent, and the Road There: Six Films, One Session, One Engine

Six stick-figure films from one working session: a registry of 24 facial expressions, a Shot system with dutch tilts and iris wipes, and a 1984-style ad that says don't build agents, become humagent.

Title card reading THE RECKONING, a ten-minute theological tribunal, with a white stick figure at center and four smaller colored figures in red, green and purple glows, faint words like covenant and language drifting around them

Apr 17, 2026 • 7 min

The Reckoning: Ten Minutes of Stick Figures Arguing with God

A ten-minute stick-figure tribunal scored in chiptune: five voices, four audio layers of MST3K-style commentary, a Picardy turn from E minor to E major, and Sodom and Gomorrah read as a failure to listen.

A stick figure on a wooden porch waves up at a night sky of constellation lines, Pac-Man, a Tetris block and rows of space invaders, as a beam of light from a swirling vortex lowers a small robot

Apr 16, 2026 • 9 min

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 abducted by stick-figure aliens, and rides a Tempest vector tunnel to Bach's Toccata in D minor reborn as chiptune rave.

A stick figure holding a box stands on a giant 1040 form while a glowing neon bunny holds up an LLC sign, with dark offices on the left and swirling music and dollar signs on the right

Apr 15, 2026 • 6 min

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 Grieg's Mountain King reborn as chiptune rave. Day three at Napkin Films.

A stick figure stands beneath a starfield with "10,000" glowing in massive numerals, a frame from Ten Thousand Days

Apr 14, 2026 • 6 min

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 thousand finite days. Two more films, one more day, same absurd stack.

Four stick figures on a dark stage under colored spotlights beside a CRT monitor full of code, with floating musical notes and a small bunny

Apr 13, 2026 • 6 min

Four Films From Code: Stick Figures, Chiptunes, and the AI Director's Chair

Four stick-figure short films drawn frame by frame in Python, scored by a chiptune engine built from numpy, voiced with my cloned voice, and directed with an AI agent. How each one was made.