This piece has multiple meanings for me. It's about being in a world where you feel like you're an odd one that stands out. Your beliefs and worldviews go against what most people believe, your way of thinking is different, you question everything you see, you try to understand the world's secrets and forces that drive it. And you feel like you're the only one that does it. You feel like you're the only one that notices or cares. Politicians are corrupt, governments lie to us, corporations control our media, food, water and medicine, but everything's okay - last night's TV show was fucking great, your favorite sports team won the derby, they brought pizza at work on Friday, fucking idk Lil Nas or Lil Uzi or one of the Lil rappers or whatever dropped a new album, Fast & Furious 30 is coming out next weekend, the iPhone 69 is being released tomorrow or omg some famous couple broke up did you hear?!? And for some reason you don't care about any of it, because you can't unsee everything else that's going on in the world. And you're the odd one for being like this. That weird, glitched brick.
It's also a piece about feeling replaceable, unimportant, or meaningless. Often times we feel this way for many reasons - it can be a lack of purpose or validation, or maybe because we feel unaccomplished, like we're nobody. Existential questions are constantly bouncing in my brain... life is so meaningful but so meaningless at the same time, we're just a speck of cosmic dust floating into the infinite... just another brick in the wall.
This is an animated + interactive piece. Open the live link ("view original animation") to view animation and access all features.
Keyboard functions:
- [1]: set wall to black
- [2]: set wall to white
- [3]: set wall to random color
- [4]: glitch new random brick
- [5]\: glitch "cement"
- [r + ArrowUp]: increase wall 'r' color value
- [r + ArrowDown]: decrease wall 'r' color value
- [g + ArrowUp]: increase wall 'g' color value
- [g + ArrowDown]: decrease wall 'g' color value
- [b + ArrowUp]: increase wall 'b' color value
- [b + ArrowDown]: decrease wall 'b' color value
- [f]: toggle full-screen mode
- [spacebar]: save a .gif
- [s]: save a screenshot as .png
You can resize the browser window to your liking (or go full-screen) before saving your .gif or screenshot.
Touch functions:
- Double-tap: set wall to black / white
- Swipe right / left: set wall to random color
- 2-finger swipe right / left: glitch new random brick
Created with p5.js.
