Videos
From seventeen years of family New Year videos to classroom experiments and educational spoofs, video has been a medium for play, collaboration, and surprise. Some of these are polished; most are deliberately not. The point was always the making.
Illusory New Year Videos
A seventeen-year family tradition of short films welcoming each new year through typography, optical illusions, and visual trickery. The series ran from 2008 to 2025, and each video was a collaborative experiment in constraint-driven filmmaking.
Fun Videos
Classroom experiments, educational parodies, playful demonstrations, and the occasional piece that defies categorization. Not a series, just a growing collection of video projects that seemed worth sharing.
The work
From blog post to AERA paper: Kant, Borges & AI go to BollywoodApr 24, 2026Last summer, digging around in an old Dropbox folder, I stumbled across a Kant quote I had used in a…
Kant, Borges, & AI go to Bollywood: Connections Nobody Asked ForJul 10, 2025Intro: I am not entirely sure of the point of this post: a somewhat random associative rumination that brings together…
Welcoming 2025: A Final Reflection (& Calling an End to a 16-year Tradition)Dec 31, 2024Since 2008, our family has been creating short videos to celebrate the start of a new year. Each video is…
The Conscious Suspension of Belief: Getting Smart about Human-AI InteractionOct 13, 2024A classic tale of early cinema recounts the 1896 Paris screening of the Lumière brothers’ “L’arrivée d’un train en gare…
Reflection: Welcome 2024Dec 31, 2023Since December 2008 we have been creating a video to welcome the new year. When we made our first video…
Vinit Masram (1988 – 2023)Jul 16, 2023I found out about Vinit Masram’s passing a week or so go. I did not know Vinit personally, having met…