Animation 04 : My Cat Breaks Into Vowels

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The first still of this animation is available as a 1-of-1 NFT on the following chains :

1. Base (if this doesn’t appear when clicking WITHIN AN EMAIL, remove “?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email” from the url address in your browser and press enter. Substack sticks these query parameters onto links automatically within emails, which is very annoying when the destination cannot handle them.)

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3. Solana

4. Tezos

You can check the provenance across NFTs on this page.

I created it by feeding the 4th set of 3 words of my poem “My Cat Breaks Into Vowels” into an AI image generator multiple times, and then blending them into a surreal animation. Look for subtle differences as the frames change.

Playing all 76 animations back to back will recreate the word-unit palindrome poem from my book of the same name, from the point of view of an AI taking only fractions of the poem out of context and attempting to interpret what it finds.

Enjoy, and feel free to share with your friends if you find this interesting.