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Ink-wash film · 2:40

蘭亭集序

Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems

An ink-wash valley: a pavilion under a pine, friends bowing by a winding stream, and his calligraphy writing in a card at the top right.

Wang Xizhi · late spring of 353
Calligraphy by 長青, my great-grandfather
Ink-wash SVG animation · 2026

One take through an ink-wash valley, in step with a reading of the whole text, while his calligraphy writes itself in the corner. Then all 351 characters again, stroke by stroke.

3D film · 1:00

The Price of Light

One desk, one light, 3,700 years

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Five slices of one desk across 3,700 years: a sesame-oil lamp, a tallow candle, a kerosene lamp, a desk lamp with a bulb, and a 1990s desk lamp in front of a city at night.

From 1750 BC to 1994
three.js 3D · music written in code · 2026

A sesame-oil lamp turns into a candle, a kerosene lamp, a light bulb and a fluorescent tube, while the room around it changes era. The caption counts the work it takes to pay for one hour of light: 50 hours in ancient Babylon, half a second in 1994. Then the camera flies out of the window over the city.

Drawn live in 3D: best on a computer, with the sound on.