pasquale dsilva. australian guy living in new york. his brain is wired wrong in the best way. sounds arrive as colors. bass is purple. high hats are yellow. doctors called it chromesthesia. he calls it "the curse that never stops giving". cant listen to music normally. every concert is a full visual spectacle no one else can see. currently teaching AI to make animations with feelings and desires at Illusion of Life which sounds like a bit but is a real company with real funding. the pixels want things now. we are in completely uncharted territory. this is either the future or a warning. honestly both
made Keezy in 2014. eight colored buttons that eat sounds and spit them back. thats the whole app. got reggie watts AND toddlers to love it. skipped every demographic in between on purpose. those people are boring anyway. wrote extremely long influential essays (Transitional Interfaces / Spatial Interfaces) explaining UI animation is the fourth dimension. everyone said "interesting" then ignored him. five years later everyone copied it exactly and claimed theyd thought of it first. he keeps receipts. will bring this up unprompted. do not mention animation at parties unless you have 45 minutes and nowhere to be
worked at Elepath with a bunch of weirdos inventing products in a room. some became real. founded Thinko after. raised VC money to build a "computer entertainment studio" which is just making absurdist internet art with a business plan. made WhoPaid99Cents dot com. you pay 99 cents to see who paid 99 cents. then pay again for updates. 400+ people fell for this on purpose. it works. its perfect. its art. also made Famera a psychedelic video chat app. spent $355 on cameo getting lindsay lohan to say "o famera president forgive me for being a dirty little stinker" plus fart noises. posted it. Rolling Stone investigated. we had achieved comedy. this is what vision looks like when you give creative people money and step back