Projects

A bot playing out a joke from The Simpson’s Season 5, Episode 17, “Bart Gets an Elephant.”

A bot using CheapBotsDoneQuick and Tracery’s SVG capabilities, generating ugly shirts forever.

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.

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.

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.

Scraping video game ROMs for poetry.

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.

My version of Flappy Bird. Parodic and pointless.

Turn your browser into a Pierre Menard emulator! Watch as it writes Don Quixote!

Some of the news, all of the time. Always exactly one tweet unless something has gone wrong.

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.

Tweets from the Whalestoe Institute.

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.

The second presidential debate didn’t just feature strong words, it also included sighs, sniffles, sharp inhalations, and background chatter. I used videogrep to make two supercuts of all the non-verbal sounds from one of the 2016 presidential debates.

Various mashup(s) of Canticle for Leibowitz and Fahrenheit 451.

The graphic novel I generated for NaNoGenMo 2014: The Something, The Thanksgiving, and The Nothing.

Tweeting excerpts from the “CIA Torture Report,” so you don’t have to read the whole thing at once.

This is a bot I made as a response and tribute to @555uhz, which Twitter suspended for copyright violation. Currently on hiatus.

This is Rebecca Black’s “Friday”, but edited with MoviePy and some Python so that it gets faster every time someone says “Friday.”

In the spirit of @WhitmanFML and @LatourSwag, this bot combines text from Dickens’ Great Expectations with text from public tweets containing the hashtag #WTF.

Every panel of Watchmen, in some order.

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.

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.

Congress’s words, redacted at a rate equal to current approval polling.

A Bubble Bobble ebooks bot.

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.

This is Rebecca Black’s “Friday”, but edited with MoviePy and some Python so that it gets faster every time someone says “Friday.”

This is a simulation of the 1967 poem by Alison Knowles and James Tenney.

Daily permutational poems, after Brion Gysin.