#plan 9 bunny

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SAME NERVE: an Alan Watts mirror-song where pain and pleasure share one wire
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SAME NERVE: an Alan Watts mirror-song where pain and pleasure share one wire

SAME NERVE is Song 08 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about pain and pleasure: the same nerve fires for both, and the suffering is the resistance, not the sensation. So the song is a literal mirror, the same melody and the same words harmonised first in C minor and then in C major, while a Plan 9 bunny walks the nerve like a wire and learns to ride the pulse it used to brace against. CC BY 4.0.

Making Complexity Legible: a beat-locked spit-rap on charting complex systems
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Making Complexity Legible: a beat-locked spit-rap on charting complex systems

Making Complexity Legible is Case I of The Cartographer of Complexity, a new Napkin Films series about Making Complexity Visible. The idea: you cannot make a complex system simple without deleting what made it work, so you do not shrink the sea, you learn to read it. A tidal-EDM spit-rap, Plan 9 and OG Bobby trading bars over recomposed Telemann, with a cartographer bunny who roams a sea that brightens as it becomes legible. CC BY 4.0.

EGO IS AN INCH: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the self you can never grab
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EGO IS AN INCH: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the self you can never grab

EGO IS AN INCH is Song 07 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about the ego: an abstraction like an inch or a line of longitude, useful for measuring and impossible to pick up, because the thing reaching is the thing reached for. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over Mussorgsky's grotesque Gnomus reborn as Eb-minor EDM, while a Plan 9 bunny, recast as the inch itself, taunts from just out of reach. CC BY 4.0.

ATTENTION IS THE LOOM: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap where the loom does the dancing
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ATTENTION IS THE LOOM: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap where the loom does the dancing

ATTENTION IS THE LOOM is Song 06 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about attention: what you attend to becomes the cloth, and the rest falls through. The front and the back of the embroidery are both true, and the gap is the rhythm. This pass rebuilt the motion from scratch so the loom actually weaves and the camera dives through the cloth to its knotted back. CC BY 4.0.

THE WEB: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the day you found out you are the web
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THE WEB: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the day you found out you are the web

THE WEB is Song 05 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about relationship: nothing stands alone, the figure is held up by the ground, and the dewdrop net reflects itself forever. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over a Bach Brandenburg canon, a web of voices that imitate and pull on each other, while a Plan 9 mirror-bunny answers from the other end of the loom. CC BY 4.0.

THE GAME INSIDE: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the cosmic game of hide and seek
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THE GAME INSIDE: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the cosmic game of hide and seek

THE GAME INSIDE is Song 04 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about the game of hide and seek that consciousness plays with itself. Life is a play. The central self is playing every part. The only rule is to forget you set it up. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over Bach's Goldberg Variations re-composed into G major EDM, and the Plan 9 bunny answers back as the player who keeps finding him. CC BY 4.0.