2012 with farts

Jen and I just made this. Check it out:

How will you survive when the earth farts?

the future of human evolution?

Apparently viruses play an important role in evolution. They often mix genes around between separate species as they spawn and spread from host to host. We have already begun to engineer viruses for our own purposes. Will we use viruses as nanobots in order to reprogram our own genes? Perhaps if we are to continue any sort of biological evolution this will be the only way. Otherwise it seems that our only alternative for further evolutionary development would be synthetic in nature, the development of artificial intelligence.

President(s)

What the people of the small nation did not know when they elected Ven Trouse as their president was that Ven Trouse was not the only person living in that body.

In fact, even during the campaign several other personalities gave speeches, engaged in debates, and waved at crowds. For those who have encountered multiple personalities before it should have been obvious, but people have a great ability to tune out changes. Now President, Ven Trouse has 25 personalities. Many of these are children. Some of these endured sexual and physical torture while he was young. Some arose in order to create some semblance of a normal, functioning child. Two personalities are female. One of these arose in order to blend in at all girls school and another evolved in order to experience romantic love in the same setting. Perhaps the strangest personalities are the savants. There are three of them. One for psychotic revenge, one who’s sole purpose is to keep the last in check, and one who does math in order to escape. There is a single personality with synesthesia that has exceptional skill in music but can be far more self-destructive than any of the others when certain smells or words are present.

Most of his adult personalities have full knowledge and memory of what the others do. Some personalities have no memory of the others and some personalities are completely isolated and unreachable by the others. The only two things that all of Ven’s personalities have in common are the body in which they dwell and the devout belief that religion can go to hell.

(I may write about this person more in the future, in series)

for more on multiple personalities: video

Debt

The chain of debt leaps from person to person, from organization to organization. With each step it becomes more massive and more abstract.

Soon it encompasses most of everything. The world is butchered into debtors and bondholders.

It is bondage. Most are left broken and broke.

Where, does liberty lie?

Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? Underpants?

I don’t know why, but on this particular date i find myself compelled to convince this woman that I have in fact killed someone before. I am not the macho type. I don’t hope to make her like me more by doing this. I don’t want her to think I’m cooler or manlier and besides, I already know that that wouldn’t be the type of reaction that she would have. No this is more of an experiment. Not quite a test. I don’t really care whether she is still interested in me after I tell her that I have killed before, and perhaps go on to describe it. I just want to see what will happen if she believes me. I want to see if this will somehow start an unstoppable chain of events as it might in a television program. Perhaps she will tell the authorities and then I will be blamed for a crime that I did not actually commit. Perhaps nobody will believe me if I change my story. I suppose I will just have to wait and see.

Graduation FTW

Bronwen and I won the Zero Film Festival this year in animation for our film “Graduation!”

Internet, Space, Identity

Once the internet spreads across all parts of our cities and sixth sense technology integrates with us in an intimate sense, our spaces and identities will change rapidly. Applications will let us interact with strangers privately in person. We will scan each other and attach things to each other. We will either become more anonymous in crowds or not anonymous at all.

Empathy

Some of us are naturally more empathic than others. We can all put a little more effort into caring about each others feelings and intentions. We don’t need to continue wrongfully executing people, having wars, and being rude on the street.

Try to be nice. Life is hard, we’re sharing space in it, let’s make the best of it.

Blackula 2000

Synopsis: Blackula returns again, AGAIN! This time, blackula becomes president. Are you prepared for the White House to go black, then run RED with BLOOD? Blackula! He’s after bleeding heart liberals. Blackula! He’s coming for red blooded republicans. Blackula 2000! There’s a VAMPIRE in the White House.

Coming of Age

Today the young men and women gather at the village. Today they come of age. They face three trials.

The first trial is one of patience. A huge obelisk of chocolate stands before the young men and women. A block is lopped off of the top and lobbed into ninths. Each individual places one block in his or her mouth. The block takes exactly one day to dissolve. It is too hard to chew. They will be watched. If the block leaves an individual’s mouth, that one fails.

The second trial is one of willpower. The young ones are given a very addictive substance. They are then placed alone in a room with additional doses. They are told to resist and are secretly watched. Those who overdose fail, or die.

The third trial is to build a computer, harness resources to power it, then use the computer to complete an application to NASA. The computer is then destroyed just before the application is sent. Those who take revenge with physical violence fail.

In short these trials are set up to prepare for a life of waiting, trying not to over-consume or die, doing the impossible, having terrible things happen and finding ways to deal with those terrible things that don’t end in violence.

Those who pass are told that they are not adults, just oversized children with more hair and strange sexual fetishes.