Posts by dan from why.movie

A hundred demonstrations would have no effect in showing you who you are, should you cling to a dead story. Only when we choose our story can the ‘evidence’ be recognized and utilized. That beliefs come before knowing may seem strange, but if the creator is the truth, that is to say creation determines what…

i had resisted watching this for a long time because i had the impression it was a mundane Americana coming of age snowglobe, and it is, but turned out dark and gritty, with a sort of DOG toy universe aesthetic. Spooky. A little confusing and perhaps misogynistic or teen misogynistic as the mother and cloris…

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excerpted from Why Novelette What might be the latest order of operations? Let’s say we write a novella? I bet we could easily get 30k words just by sorting and sequencing what we already have. The question is, are we going to finish, is this the way to completion… a novella? If I turn my…

Verses are consciousness playing. There are probable and improbable verses. Whereas transitioning to an improbable verse might be both difficult and ill advised, aspects or chunks of an improbable verse might be invited or coaxed into a higher probability in the current verse. If the story is compelling enough, if play would be enhanced. Thus…

World building 2025-boxes-origin-and-repurposing add to notes Is there an airship departing in the far distance? Do the boxes drop in a airfoil configuration, or perhaps an origami parachute, then just before they hit the ground, break the bonds keeping them together and bounce gently into position. This would perfectly foreshadow the last scene where the…

A beige cube nestles in a meadow. A puff of wind rustles the surrounding grass, causing a subtle scritch scratching of blades against the side of the cube. Other cubes are scattered around the field, near and far. Almost a still life if not for the slight swaying of green. The sun transits the blue…

Christina and Gerry meet

Scene • The Box Looses Joe

Prompts – initially, the boxes search for actual scenarios in the world that are poetic analogs to the query. Because the Big Boat and crew are project specific, the network knows that it’s being asked to riff on the real world, to efficaciously hallucinate. Prompts show the capabilities of the box network. If Joe or…