Mastodawn

🎨🐒 So an #ape in #Japan spent its days counting and painting, and now it's gone at 49. Who knew our simian cousins were out here living more cultured lives than most of Twitter? 🙄📉
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3zl2ywyo #art #culture #Twitter #simians #HackerNews #ngated

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted, dies at 49

Ai's cognitive abilities had been studied extensively since she was brought to a Japanese institute in 1977.

illestpreacha Dec 14

SimianChoirAgain

Video: https://youtu.be/fNaZu6ocjl0

Blog: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/codejourneymonkeyday

#pixelation #glitchy #Livecoding #animation #WCCC #WCCChallenge #monkeyday #monkeyday2025 #internationalmonkeyday #sounddesign

For Monkey Day 2025: The Simians located on the Planet Zenthian have at times been recorded singing in a choir. First recorded in 2023 and Coded with #SonicPi, the 2025 edition revisits the choir with added effects from #HydraVideoSynth & #LiveCodingYoutube.

Original: https://blog.illestpreacha.com/sciartseptember2023simian

#Poem

They Howl in Unison
They grunt in Union
The dissection of the intersection
Isn’t needed for this reflection
Or any introspection
As the Simian Choir
Aims to Pitch Higher

#creativecoding #coding #simians
#newmedia #scifi #videography
#worldbuilding #illestpreacha