Stream of Consciousness

A tool that sends your thoughts down a stream of consciousness.

DATE.: December 2020.
CONTEXT.: Personal.
LOCATION.: Hong Kong.
FORMAT.: Website.
THEMES.: Emotions; handmade web.

I asked my lovely friend Cameron for a poem to make something from, and this was the thing! I really liked this approach to project-making and definitely want to try with more people who I admire :)

Notes on the making:

Originally focused on "minnows like thoughts" by trying to display real-time tweets of people thinking out loud ("I wonder", no retweets mentions or media), but it ended up being about "stream of consciousness". Changed perspective from observation to expression (?)
Starting to think of some of my work as like… website poems. Engaging with an emotional idea with some interactive/real-time component.
File formats! Encodings! Codecs! A complete mystery and a half; I wish I had the chance to learn more about them in film class. I spent way too long fiddling with this and with browser quirks.
Accessibility: as always, not 100%. Mobile accessibility would be the most important here; other ideas include speech-to-text, support for accented characters and IME languages, more optimised video.

A close-up of the controls, the poem, and the instructions.

Words being carried down the stream of consciousness.