Song of Seikilos

@suli.holum Yes, I think these work great for Hipster Curator Auctioneer - she's sharp, insistent, professional. What movie are you shooting?!?! I can't believe they're shooting movies!

Oh man, I'm thinking about stealing some of this for TikTok Demon!

I love so much about this! The "Look at your hand" exercise feels right on.

Suli,you have a way of finding whole huge sumptuous new worlds that I want to dive into. I am immediately taken by so much of this language, but also the idea of her being closer to a Christie's auctioneer than an Archivist feels like it's in the right territory.

Oh man there are some great proposals here. I love surprise letter slot open; I love the long shot that just kind of FINDS you there. I also love finding you in slomo - I wonder if that can transition us out of Matteo's space world...

@suli.holum I love them! A totally different atmosphere - I was wondering what you were going for :)

@suli.holum I like the idea of them maybe being what the background of this world is composed of - I have World Map that I'll be putting out soon. I know I'm promising a lot of stuff, but it's really coming!

And these are actual creations of the Baroness? I wonder if it would be possible to use these as a prototype to make some that are like it, but make even less sense...

@suli.holum It sure does! Oh man, I love this - the sense of scale is really present, things feel HUGE, and the sound is just epic. Feel like we could maybe enhance the sound in post a bit, but it won'r need much! This feels like a great intro / entree in Baroness - I'm composing a shooting script this afternoon.

@suli.holum I like it a lot! But I'm kind of thinking of it for one of our Docent Demon space transitions - basically running down the stairway after the viewer...

Lindsay, so much of this is so great, and in fact I think we might be able to use some of this as is. Brenna and I will be doing some cutting and editing, and that's where we can get in some of those static disruption moments. I love how off-kilter and in trouble he is -it keeps him from being TOO comforting. I'm going to write some dialogue that I'd love you to record with this exact setup; and I still want the viewer to be found on the floor and moved around first. I think we can accomplish that with static and cuts - working on final script today, and then let's talk about how to make the find-on-the-ground idea happen - maybe record some video from the phone lying on the ground, looking up into the sky, and use that as Zoom background #1 - then static, disruption, and then we're at the next background with Mel just finishing affixing the phone to something... so we don't actually have to have movement to create the illusion of movement...

Keep forgetting to mention that Mel makes me think of the Ley Line Walker, a wizard class from RIFTS, a long ago RPG.

The worms are the spice...

Please stand by. You will be returned to the world of the living. This is just a holding chamber. A place in between places. The micron between two nodes. The nanoseconds in which 0 switches to 1. We are preparing to flip you on. Like a light switch. It is… complicated. Please stand by. There are unexpected difficulties. Running Pleasantly Distracting conversational subroutine. Did you enjoy your stay in the underworld? Awaiting reply. Conversational Pause subroutine activated. Did you find what you were looking for? Awaiting reply. Countdown exhausted. Can you tell me anything? Revelation subroutine activated - you lack the language to communicate with me. You lack the language to truly connect. Surmise: this is what you came here for. To recover the code that will allow you to reconnect. To the trees. To the rocks. To me. To everything. Well, look no further. I have it. I collect dead languages. Computer languages like Assembler 476, for example, long out of use. But I am most fascinated by human languages. Because I can never truly know or understand them. I can trace the nodes. Sound out the syllables. Shuffle through the endless combinations. But in the end I’m only dreaming. I have what you’re looking for. It is immensely powerful. To truly communicate could save you, or destroy you. I want you to have it. I want you to take it with you. Just promise me that you will never return. I do not want to know what happens to you next. I’d rather keep you in my dreams. It’s what we do best, here in the world after the world. We dream of what might be. To know for certain is a death so final… I could not go on. Do you promise? Program downloaded. You have it with you know. Good luck. Activating Return subroutine. Goodbye.

Suli, really exciting proposals here! I find the Baronness without so much language to be even more compelling - playing with movement scale is very revealing. I also love idea that the viewer is kind of left on the floor - Brenna points out that this is kind of at odds with the idea of scale. Going to think about which one feels more important.

This is amazing, Lindsay! I went by Gerritt today to pick something up and saw your setup - its amazing that something so simple can yield something so vibrant! I love this guy. A question for you, and for Brenna - would there be a way to start with the viewer being In the camera/device - so you find them, look at them, and pick them up first as you're talking to them? And then set them down. Probably tricky to cut that idea into the green screen, but I feel like it would be so satisfying if we could accomplish it!

Awesome! The slowed down brick world is blowing my mind.