Author: cyriak

A journey into the mouth of madness. This video congealed from various animated experiments.

Enter at your own risk…

This is a frames to beats-per-minute calculator. You can use this tool to calculate how many frames of animation will pass with each beat of your music. Simply fill in two of the fields and press solve to calculate the third value.

I find this tool useful for making animated music videos, so I thought I would share it.

I have written a book. It’s about a horse who destroys the universe. You may well be wondering why, and why. Let me see if I can explain…

unbound.com/books/horse-destroys-the-universe

Back in 2015 I decided to have a go at the NaNoWriMo challenge, to write a novel in a month. I didn’t expect anyone would ever read it, I just enjoy writing and telling stories, so I deliberately chose the most outlandish subject I could think of, which happened to be a horse destroying the universe. The task was to somehow construct a semi-believable sequence of events that would end up with such a scenario.

The story is told from the perspective of Buttercup the horse, who is the unwitting participant in an experiment being conducted by a dysfunctional pair of human scientists. As the weeks of writing progressed and the chaos of the story escalated, I began to realise that there was a lot more going on here than a horse destroying the universe. The fact is, you need so many things to go wrong in order to obtain such a result that the journey of this horse and it’s two hapless human accomplices became far more interesting than the destination.

So, with this rough sketch of a novel complete after a month, I decided to spend some time hammering it into the shape of a proper book. And two and a half years later here I am, crowd-funding to get it published. Will it reach the funding goal? We shall see…

To celebrate hitting a million subscribers on youtube I made some remixes of my music and videos, or rather my cat did. The event was live streamed, you can see the recording here.

Thanks to everyone who has enjoyed my weird videos over the years.

Here’s a new music video I made for the Japanese band Denki Groove

A super-intelligent robot horse is floating through space, dreaming about the life it lived many years ago. It tries to re-live this past happiness, but as is often the way with nostalgia, what it ends up creating is something altogether new and overpowering.

That is the strange story behind this video. The ideas of technology and happy memories were inspired by how the music sounded to me. It also reminded me of a horse for some reason, perhaps in the way that horses have traditionally been a living part of human technology, and imagining a future where this role was taken to its extreme conclusion.

Horses make me laugh as well, so it might just be that.