Circle World

December 19, 2019 6:23 AM

Cyriak is back with a new offering, a perfect palate cleanser for the end of the year. [6m]

Also, he's apparently written a book about a horse.

posted by hippybear (25 comments total)

I can recommend Horse Destroys the Universe, after receiving it as a birthday present. Imagine Accelerando, except with more horse.
posted by panhopticon at 6:56 AM on December 19, 2019

Meow!
posted by sydnius at 7:18 AM on December 19, 2019

The Cyriak Cinematic / Claustrophobic / Cyclic / Choreographic / Cataclysmic Universe
posted by oulipian at 7:32 AM on December 19, 2019 [1 favorite]

"This special situation of the State as a category—oblivion and return—has to be explained. To begin with, it should be said that the primordial despotic state is not a historical break like any other. Of all the institutions, it is perhaps the only one to appear fully armed in the brain of those who institute it, "the artists with a look of bronze." That is why Marxism didn't quite know what to make of it: it has no place in the famous five stages[...] It is not one formation among others, nor is it the transition from one formation to another. It appears to be set back at a remove from what it transects and from what it resects, as though it were giving evidence of another dimension, a cerebral ideality that is added to, superimposed on the material evolution of societies[...] a vibratory spiral." -- D&G AO p219

posted by Richard Saunders at 7:39 AM on December 19, 2019 [1 favorite]

At the beginning, I thought, 'You've changed man. It used to be all about the spider demons.' Then I watched more, and thought, 'nah, dude, we're cool.'
posted by kaibutsu at 7:53 AM on December 19, 2019 [6 favorites]

wtf is on your palate that this cleanses it
posted by lalochezia at 8:29 AM on December 19, 2019 [19 favorites]

I can't figure out how the kittens get into the walking buildings.
posted by carter at 8:32 AM on December 19, 2019 [3 favorites]

Oh you know kittens, always getting into places where they don't belong...
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:37 AM on December 19, 2019 [5 favorites]

Mr Harris does produce quite amusing takes on metastasis.

Strange to think how old the videos are that he self-references: Cycles (2010), Baaa (June 2011), Welcome to Kitty City (November 2011). I mean, the kitten-obsessed 5 year old I shared Kitty City with is now a driver …
posted by scruss at 9:04 AM on December 19, 2019

Cortex how do you feel about these fractals?
posted by rebent at 9:58 AM on December 19, 2019

I've watched a lot of Cyriak videos over the years, but this one really does feel like he's taken it to a whole new level. Bravo!
posted by crazy_yeti at 11:40 AM on December 19, 2019

I have no idea how Cyriak got his kittens wedged into his walking buildings, or why
posted by polecat at 12:32 PM on December 19, 2019 [1 favorite]

i'm waiting for cyriak to reproduce and his children to start making videos... or immersive vr??
posted by danjo at 12:58 PM on December 19, 2019

I like the music. It's like someone grinning in your face too close for too long. It's not a surprise he's an admirer of Cardiacs.
posted by Grangousier at 3:12 PM on December 19, 2019

Oh, and the sign that Cyriak is a class act: most stuff is synced with the upbeat. The downbeat is for children.
posted by Grangousier at 3:17 PM on December 19, 2019 [1 favorite]

Wow. What a nightmare! (In the absolutely best, uniquely Cyriak way).
posted by iandennismiller at 4:29 PM on December 19, 2019

Well, that's the first time that I'd ever seen sheep knitting outlines of Platonic solids.
posted by ovvl at 5:03 PM on December 19, 2019 [2 favorites]

I’m not sure what exactly is going on with my palate, but I really don’t think it’s clean now...
posted by jenkinsEar at 5:40 PM on December 19, 2019

If it were just a little longer it could fade out at 6:28, but maybe that's too obvious.
posted by wobh at 7:30 PM on December 19, 2019

wtf is on your palate that this cleanses it

I mean, did you even live through 2019?
posted by hippybear at 8:05 PM on December 19, 2019 [2 favorites]

If you can call that "living"...
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:21 PM on December 19, 2019 [2 favorites]

degrading repetitions of nightmare animal mutants and urban traffic until it all breaks down... is a palate cleanser after 2019.
posted by hippybear at 10:29 PM on December 19, 2019

Yeah, if we were all just a teddy bear scientist's collapsing simulation, I'd feel a lot better about everything.
posted by Scattercat at 4:55 AM on December 20, 2019

teddy bear scientist's collapsing simulation

That's going to be my next sockpuppet name.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:10 AM on December 20, 2019 [1 favorite]

Well, that's the first time that I'd ever seen sheep knitting outlines of Platonic solids.
I think they're "impossible" versions of the Platonic solids as well. The sheep makes me think of this character from M.C. Escher's 1958 lithograph "Belvedere".
posted by crazy_yeti at 12:09 PM on December 20, 2019