every frame of this video is synthetic, made with ai using text as input. i’m super proud to be helping the research team at OpenAI by testing out their new video model, Sora.
the song is an excerpt from my new single “sugarize”, releasing in just over a month.
Worldweight – by August Kamp • official music video made using Sora
it’s hard to even know what to say about finally having a video for “worldweight”
i feel like this piece of art is my absolute heart and soul. i remember the way i felt when these notes tumbled through my hands and onto the keys of my synthesizer almost two years ago. i remember how it rained outside and how i felt so lucky to be able to pour these feelings into a song – something that could hold onto them so i didn’t have to anymore. i closed my eyes while i played – something rare for me as i don’t know my keys all too well – but i closed my eyes and i saw pictures in my mind.
this is what Sora is best for – in my opinion. taking these pictures that i’ve held onto for two years and saying “august – we can share these with folks”. that’s what i think is special about this tool. i get to share what was once locked behind my shut eyes – all alone.
which is to say – this is how the song has always “looked”, it’s just that now i get to show you.
full video 4K widescreen youtube link in my bio
love u cinco
love u cinco
this is my friend seraj
seraj is in gaza. he has lived with perpetual war for 19 years of his life. a month or so ago, i noticed seraj had followed me after i reposted a post of his on instagram. i may have commented, im not sure offhand.
i am appreciative of the extra attention my account is getting right now, and i will continue as usual to post the things i am working on, but also we all gotta talk a little.
as many of you know – instagram quietly made it a user-interface hassle to see (rather – be shown) what is happening to the people in (namely) gaza from an algorithmic standpoint.
they are quieting the “noise” that is being caused by people crying for help. it’s uncomfortable – to everyone, i think. some of the images and accounts that seraj posts or discusses are harrowing and graphic. i often find it painful to be made aware of horrible things, and at some level, i hope we all do. we feel uncomfortable because these things should never ever ever happen to any human being with a soul and a body and a single chance at being alive on this earth as who they are now.
each human self is the whole world and they are disappearing by the tens of thousands. one by one, on purpose, at the end of long lines that wrap around the husks of buildings that used to hold the people who now form lines and later piles. these are families like ours, with computers and calendars, and arguments and rugs and each other. our very own money pays for all the guns and bullets every day and a half or so.
for the love of god, guys. do you not feel this ? who would each of us be if we refuse reckon with the reality of the worst things we have ever seen or heard – every day – as they happen ? what constitutes “normal” if we fail to see that looking away from this is unacceptable ?
explaining it away is worse – by the way.
yesterday i saw there was yet another airstrike on a residential area that i recall as being near where seraj is. i checked in and he didn’t reply but the message says “seen” and that is at least something.
please donate to his fund if you can at all. share his name and his voice. i wanna meet him. i want him to be safe.
still feeling fairly trippy about all this, thank you everyone for checking out this quiet little corner of my brain. i’m grateful and dizzy that i could manage to share it with you ♥️ full video 4k widescreen link in my bio
i’ve never been much of a keyboardist in my own mind, i always just felt like i could barely get by kinda how i do with typing. but osmose makes me feel like i know every little trick. it’s so natural – so comfortable and warm. i cannot describe it without tripping over my words.
have you ever seen a place like this ?
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there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
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if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
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keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
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there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
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there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
.
there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
.
there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
.
there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
.
there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
.
there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
.
there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
have you ever seen a place like this ?
.
there’s probably already a pool in your mind, you’ll get to that by dreaming usually. some people can just think about it, but not me.
.
if you swim to the bottom of that pool you’ll find a little door. good. open it and swim through
.
keep on going, eventually you’ll surface in one of these ten places. let me know which one you end up at !
clamberveil • lumenbraids • halospore
clamberveil • lumenbraids • halospore
clamberveil • lumenbraids • halospore
been digging up some old works i forgot to post
everything from the build to the vibe to the sound engine is unbelievable. i simply cannot tell y’all how game-changing this machine is going to be. @expressive_e thank you so so much for taking a chance on me and trusting me to document my exploration of this monolith. so much more to come, this feels like using DALL•E for the first time but for my tactile senses. hard to explain. i’m just finishing up a video live-jamming in the garden with this thing too – that will be up later today. love to all ♥️
isolated biome chambers – another old work from last year or so
