ghost waters sing
An interactive poem. Click any letter and it will randomise the word around it, while keeping the selected letter the same.
I created the initial text by starting with a word and then coming up with a word that felt like it fit after it (and repeating that process), giving no thought to meaning. The only constraints I gave myself were no words longer than 6 letters, and each line had to be the same length in a monospace font. The final thing ended up significantly darker than I was expecting, but it's interactive, so you can change that.
Download ghost waters sing
Controls: escape: quit; mouse: randomise word surrounding letter
The Rules:
- The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (3/6/23).
- All downloads are zipfiles containing a Windows executable.
- All source code and assets are included, licensed under the Anti-Capitalist Software License.
- As long as you abide by the license, you can do whatever you want with the download.
Further Reading
An absolutely beautiful video essay on memory via wikipedia articles by everest pipkin.
A gentle, hopeful tale of the end of the world in the SCP-adjacent Wanderer's Library.
A wonderful National Film Board of Canada documentary on the owner's of an owl sanctuary.
I love Cosmo D's games, but I finally played Betrayal at Club Low this month and if I'm honest I found it kind of slight. It's interesting mechanically, but it felt like that was at the expense of the narrative and the level/environment design (which were so well done in The Norwood Suite).
To be super reductive (and well, unfair), I feel like Cosmo D's games tend to revolve around 2 main obsessions: music and pizza. And for me, the games prioritising music are significantly more interesting than the games prioritising pizza.
What to do when someone is having a panic attack.
A fascinating article on The Verge about the very specific and convoluted consequences for google of that AI Drake song being posted on youtube.
The poignant story of a single Japanese pine tree.
Gabrielle de la Puente with an absolutely incredible piece of writing about The Northern Boys.
A snapshot of the people looking out for the curlews on the Insh Marshes.
"okay, so yeah that's cool cos we're, like, adventurers": I love this early Be Your Own Pet performance. The performance and lyrics have me imagining a bunch of scrawny teenagers talking themselves up to some sketchy guy offering them work by claiming "we've been to every place, everywhere in the world!", which is just too good. I hate that the music industry chewed them up in its miserable machinery. They were just kids themselves, they deserved so much better.
I really enjoyed Truss.
Aevee Bee with thoughts on our current dystopia and how it differs from the vast majority of fictional dystopias out there.
John Corbett with a fascinating talk at Causal Islands about his work to develop a Cree programming language.
It's starting to get warm enough that I can have the windows open without freezing, and there is so much birdsong in the evening here. Feels like the world has well and truly woken up from its winter hibernation. Okay, well, I hope that there are birds with you and that you're taking care of yourself. See you soon.