Animation Archives - Listening Pond

This Video Should Not Exist by Mark Waggott

It all started by accident!

Midjourney

I was using Midjourney A.I. to generate some images of futuristic concept motorbikes for another video, and had a few browser windows open with some concept motorbikes that I was using as image prompts for Midjourney.

Later that day, I was seeking an image of some “people talking on cell phones ignoring each other” for a totally different video, and was using that as the prompt combined with some other image prompts.

Well you guessed it, I accidentally used the concept motorbike image with the prompt “people talking on cell phones ignoring each other” and the 4 images above were generated. Not exactly what I was after, but they looked cool so I put them aside for another day.

When I finally got back to these I just kept generating the same prompt and getting different results each time. I also tried using a concept car as the prompt, then used the already generated images as prompts with the same text prompt over and over.

Flushing Your Life Away by Mark Waggott

Short, funny, surreal toilet flushes just for a laugh. In a world where attention spans are short these clips are perfectly designed to have you staring at your phone for a bit longer watching pointless short bursts of entertainment.

Animated Poetry by Mark Waggott

A series of audio visual poetry animations. These are kind of like music videos but with poetry used for the voice overs. Various A.I. tools were used to produce these including: Midjourney, Kaiber, Chat GPT, Voicemaker and various stock clips.

Weird Me Out by Mark Waggott

This is a very strange, weird, and surreal, yet poetic animation. It’s quite dark and illustrates some not so pleasant scenes about the world we live in. Its the start of a collection called “Weird Me Out”

Twisted History by Mark Waggott

This funny animation tells the story of the entire history of Earth from the creation of the universe to modern day humans. The story is based on actual historical events but with a few funny twists. Journey through every decade from the last century and beyond.