Various Things I Have Made
In no particular order.
@_DJ_3000_
A bot playing out a joke from The Simpson’s Season 5, Episode 17, “Bart Gets an Elephant.”
@ManyShirts
A bot using CheapBotsDoneQuick and Tracery’s SVG capabilities, generating ugly shirts forever.
@EveryCruz
To avoid campaign financing restrictions, Ted Cruz’s campaign uploaded 15 hours of raw footage directly to Youtube. I downloaded it, used Pocketsphinx to transcribe it, and sorted that transcript alphabetically. Then I used Videogrep to create supercuts for each word, uploaded those to youtube, and set up a twitter bot to tweet links to each video. This task is now complete.
An Arthrogram
This is a “graphic novel” exploring every possible panel configuration given certain constraints. I self-published this with Lulu.com, and it is available for purchase from Amazon.
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A “cut out” of William S. Burroughs: I remixed a lecture by removing all the words. Prepared for a special issue of Enculturation edited by Casey Boyle and Jim Brown.
Pigeon Forge
My remix of Nick Montfort’s poem, “Taroko Gorge.” My piece riffs on the nostalgic theme I find in the original poem, but blends it with the imagery of East Tennessee tourism.
This work was included along with several other remixes in the Electronic Literature Organization’s Collection, Volume 3.
@SLOW_CRAWL
Some of the news, all of the time. Always exactly one tweet unless something has gone wrong.
@CrookedCosmos
This is a bot that runs NASA imagery through a pixelsorting script. Adam Ferris did this first, so this is the same idea but over and over again with randomized parameters. I got the title from a heavy metal band-name generator.
Haiku by Robot
This is a twitter bot based on a poem I found in an issue of Highlights magazine. After my tweet of that image proved popular, I set out to make a bot that can generate these haiku indefinitely.
NaGraNoGenMo
The graphic novel I generated for NaNoGenMo 2014: The Something, The Thanksgiving, and The Nothing.
@CIA_TXT
Tweeting excerpts from the “CIA Torture Report,” so you don’t have to read the whole thing at once.
@BasicallyTopGun
This is a bot I made as a response and tribute to @555uhz, which Twitter suspended for copyright violation. Currently on hiatus.
Friday++
This is Rebecca Black’s “Friday”, but edited with MoviePy and some Python so that it gets faster every time someone says “Friday.”
WTF’ing Dickens
In the spirit of @WhitmanFML and @LatourSwag, this bot combines text from Dickens’ Great Expectations with text from public tweets containing the hashtag #WTF.
Electronic Literature Travel Tips
Considering a trip to the land of Electronic Literature? Here are some helpful tips for your journey. I created this by asking my students to write notes of advice and encouragement to future students. I then overlay that advice on travel-themed images pulled randomly from Flickr.
@ExoPalettes
This bot takes the technical name for a known exo-planet, then gives it the nickname of a palette from ColourLovers.com, then generates an idea of what that planet might look like with the colors of that palette.
@OminousStudies
After Secretary of Education Betsy Devos made a comment about liberal professors “ominously” telling their students what to think, I made a fork of Mark Sample’s @StudiesBot that simply prepends scary words to the invented disciplines.
Friday–
This is Rebecca Black’s “Friday”, but edited with MoviePy and some Python so that it gets faster every time someone says “Friday.”