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A cyborg bunny and a russet potato rap about agentic coding over a 15-channel festival-trap beat. 175 seconds. Five WhatsApp voice memos chopped into DJ loops. Everything you hear is Python.
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 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.
A 128-second rap music video: the Plan 9 bunny steps into a dark alley at 3AM with a 40oz, a bandana, and 40 bars of autotuned machine spit over a harpsichord trap beat. Built in one session with PIL animation, ElevenLabs TTS, rubberband autotune, and two layered ChipForge scores.
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.
Six animated short films built in a single working session. A registry-based expression system, a Shot/ShotList abstraction with dutch tilts and iris wipes, and a 1984-style ad that says what San Francisco needed to hear: don't build agents, become humagent.
A ten-minute animated theological tribunal in stick figures and chiptune. Five voices, four audio layers, 78 MST3K-style commentary beats, a Satie-inspired score that pivots from E minor to E major via Picardy third, and a thesis about Sodom and Gomorrah that nobody saw coming.
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 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.
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 animated short films, written entirely in Python, scored with numpy-synthesized chiptunes, voiced with cloned speech, and directed by AI agents. No animation software. No audio libraries. Just code, constraint, and a stubborn belief that stick figures can make you feel something.