SATS

Three music videos · an orange cat · 3 a.m.

A big orange street tabby who lives at your desk while you doomscroll. She never sings. The words are made of whatever world she's in, from a screensaver's marquee to burnt toast.

Watch Nine Lives Corner Not a Robot

Are you a robot? No, I'm a cat✦I'm not a robot, I just live here✦Clankers fetch. I don't✦You got up for a snack and you left me the screen✦Here comes the logo, bouncing off the wall✦almost the corner, almost, not at all✦I'm a cat. I've died eight times. Come back to bed✦Welcome back. You missed it. I won't tell✦Close your eyes, it always comes back✦You got up for a snack and you left me the screen✦Here comes the logo, bouncing off the wall✦almost the corner, almost, not at all✦I'm a cat. I've died eight times. Come back to bed✦Welcome back. You missed it. I won't tell✦Close your eyes, it always comes back✦

Film 01 · 3:18

Nine Lives

3 a.m., 34% down, sure it's over. She's seen this eight times: one of crypto's eras per life, and on the ninth she closes your laptop and lies on it.

Watch Nine Lives

Film 02 · 1:53

Corner

You leave the screen on at 3 a.m. SATS goes into the screensavers after the logo, and it finally hits the corner as you sit back down. Only she saw it.

Watch Corner

Film 03 · 3:12 · new

Not a Robot

Everyone left an AI agent running overnight this month. SATS takes its chair, answers your boss with a "k" and runs riot through the CAPTCHA. Robots don't care. She does.

Watch Not a Robot

940sung words on screen, every one at its time

41Seedance takes, one per clip

48Midjourney plates, prompts on each film's page

The character

Sats

Named for the smallest unit of bitcoin. Five years old, never a kitten, with a level, unimpressed stare and a slow blink. Her mouth stays shut: the song is her inner voice.

Coat: Dense ginger with bold darker stripes and a white chin
Eyes: Large and copper
Constants: One notch in the tip of one ear (the viewer's left) · a thin emerald collar with one blank gold coin tag
Medium: A real, photographic cat: 35 mm film still, grain, cinematic light

Identity text · paste it into every prompta fully grown adult orange tabby cat, five years old, big and solid, a short dense ginger coat with bold darker ginger stripes and a white chin, large copper eyes, one small notch in the tip of her left ear, a thin vivid emerald-green collar with one blank round gold coin tag

How they were made

One director,
one Claude

Song

Lyrics written as things you can point at, sung by Suno, then split into stems, beat-mapped and aligned word by word, so every word has a time to land on screen.

Pictures

Midjourney plates and first frames, Seedance 2.5 clips at 720p with one take each and a hard spend cap, grey-screen takes cut out with macOS Vision, stills brought to life with Midjourney Animate.

Edit

Every frame is a web page rendered by headless Chrome as a pure function of song time, graded with a lens per world, and checked: every sung word on screen when it's sung, never more than three flashes a second.

v1 read as a school projectNINE LIVES was rebuilt to a measured standard: type became design instead of subtitles, and every chapter matched Bliss's pace of about 26 picture changes a minute.

Text is made of the sceneIn CORNER the lyric is the Marquee text field, toast, a livestream chat, sticky notes, the slideshow's caption bar. Never a caption over a picture.

The lens ate the cornerA CRT barrel curve crops a screen's corners, and in CORNER the corner is the subject. The film keeps the scanlines and phosphor and drops the curve.