Stepped outside to go for a walk over lunch, and spotted a dead bird on the sidewalk. A few feet away was another Cedar Waxwing, absolutely refusing to leave the side of the deceased one

I sat down next to it and was able to take this picture from just a few inches away.

The bird hopped a few steps away, but didn't go far.

When I walked away it returned to the other bird's side.

Hard not to anthropomorphize its actions as grief

Totality

It was so cool to hear the birds get quiet, the crickets to start chirping, all the traffic on the road stop, and then the internet go out as 70,000 people tried to live stream or send photos from a city of 17,000

Some random #CreativeCoding sketches from the past few weeks #py5

Code: https://codeberg.org/TomLarrow/creative-coding-experiments/src/branch/main/x_0100

Some various #CreativeCoding sketches I've done over the past few weeks in #py5

https://codeberg.org/TomLarrow/creative-coding-experiments/src/branch/main/x_0100

The chaos of life has finally slowed down enough that I could attempt some #CreativeCoding again. I started to build out some flow fields, but when I tried to add some visualizations to help me see how the flow fields would look before I moved particles through them, the resulting visualizations themselves were pretty cool, so they became the sketch #py5

Happy Little Accidents

Code: https://codeberg.org/TomLarrow/creative-coding-experiments/src/branch/main/x_0100/x_0127