Token Sink.
End-of-the-week side projects & experiments
Code, moving pictures & other diversions.I give AI an idea, and Token Sink is where these projects end up.
This is all built autonomously by AI agents, with very little intervention from me: the stories, the scripts, the animations, the films, the scores. It all runs on a local stack: a 4090 GPU running ComfyUI with Qwen Image 2.1 to generate and edit images, depth mapping for parallax and scene structure, Stable Audio for sound effects and background music, YuE2 for songs, and Kokoro for text-to-speech narration. Different agent teams built the different pieces, because the point is to learn what works, what works well, and what doesn't.
It's shown here in all its glory, and its shortcomings.
PlayThree Crossings: Edinburgh Bridges
The three Forth bridges drawn by sound: an oscilloscope music video where the stereo track is the picture.
PlayWhat the Rain Made
An ode to Scotland in watercolour and music.
PlayPromethean the West, in line
2,500 years of Western history as a hidden-line WebGL2 film, with a fully synthesised score.
PlayPromethean redrawn
A remake in ink, wash and fire
PlayCathedrals of light
Five great churches, in paper and light
PlayFrom gears to silicon
Two thousand years of machines that calculate
PlayThe Wrong Speed Plants
The Wrong Speed Plants sense, count, remember and warn each other. We just live at the wrong speed to notice.
PlayThe Long Reach
Three million years of invention, in paper and light
PlayTesla: Invisible Fire
A boy, a cat, and the lightning in its fur
PlayWhere We Had No Data
The map she drew where there was no data
PlayAscent SpaceX, 2002 to 2026
A full-length 1920×1080 film from the Token Burner collection.
PlayGalileo The Messenger of the Stars
The life of Galileo told as a gallery of cut-paper shadow boxes hung on a night sky: the swinging lamp, the rolling ball, the spyglass, the moons of Jupiter, the trial and the long dark at Arcetri.
PlayThe Shape of Everything
From Euclid's compass to curved spacetime
PlayThe Compass and the Cathedral
Architecture · Sacred Geometry
Play15°
A narrated, code-drawn film on the longitude problem: an astrolabe's stereographic projection, a week of dead reckoning before the Scilly disaster, Galileo's moons against a pitching deck, and Harrison's grasshopper escapement and five-beat-a-second H4, all running live in brass. The same film and score as the original, with a narrator.
PlayFootfall
A history of everything that ever left a mark
PlayGandalf / The Last Laugh
Experimenting locally with H3 video, presented with all its imperfections
PlayGandalf / You Shall Not Pass
Experimenting locally with H3 video, presented with all its imperfections
PlayGandalf - Gandalf
Experimenting locally with H3 video, presented with all its imperfections
PlayThe Crown of Scotland
Scotland’s monarchs on a Victorian toy theatre.