Welcome to Kitty City - new video from Cyriak

Video Link. This is why Cyriak is my favorite animator on the net. Sometimes, I suspect that he is the internet, trying to communicate with us in a language it thinks we understand.

Previously: Cows and cows and cows; Baa: experiments in ovine geometry; Another universe made of cubes; Exhausting the entire problem space of animated teddy-bears, cars, people and pigeons

• [chris coreline]

  Im glad i live a sober life, im pritty sure this would kill anyone under the influence… of anything.

• [jeligula]

  Cat-erpillars?  I visited Kitty City and now want to go home.  I propose the name be changed to Disturbia and all off ramps to Kitty City be closed.

• [Trevcaru]

  The World of warcraft advertisement next to this video adds to the madness.

  • [Mari Lwyd]

    You get World of Warcraft? BB’s trying to sell me acne medication.

    Not sure what this means.

  • [Ant]

    What advertisement/ad.? [pats his adblocker and grins]

• [Tyson Williams]

  I don’t think I will be able to sleep after seeing this… ever! 

• [endymion]

  I think he’s my favorite too.

  And as a musician (classical pianist), I’ll add one other opinion: he’s a fantastic composer too. His music is always a big cut above the rest.

  • [jeligula]

    Sorry endymion.  I am a classical guitarist and find Cyriak’s compositions in his animations to be repetitive and tear-inducing.

• [prichard0116]

  Cyriak’s work never ceases to amaze/disturb/surprise me. I’m at a loss for words…or perhaps my mind is still lost in Kitty City.

  I do have to agree that this particular work is the internet crammed into a video transmission for all of us ponder. Well said Rob.

• [danegeld]

  This is probably what the dog on acid saw, right before it ran under the car

• [Max Karl Key]

  Big deal, my cat does this all the time.

  what.

• [snagglepuss]

  Oh, look. Kittehs.

• [Rev. Benjamin]

  “I suspect that he is the internet, trying to communicate with us in a language it thinks we understand.”
  This is a magical sentence of truth.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  Needs more Cab Calloway.

• [AirPillo]

  Sometimes, I suspect that he is the internet, trying to communicate with us in a language it thinks we understand.

  That’s probably the best summary I’ve seen so far.

• [Ceronomus]

  I obviously need far stronger drugs.

  • [AirPillo]

    I have just the cactus for you…

• [David Llopis]

  Oh, are there new episodes of Liquid Television?

  • [bcsizemo]

    You could also throw this video up with Future Sound of London as the audio track and it would fit right in.  ala MTV Amp.

• [Ashen Victor]

  Shoggoth cat disturbs me .

• [jayson]

  I like Cyriak, but Joel Veitch will always have my heart.

  Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to watch some kittens perform Elbow’s cover of “Independent Woman.”

  • [jeligula]

    Like you, Jayson, I prefer Joel Veitch’s efforts to Cyriak.  Joel is twisted in all the right ways, when Cyriak has you wishing you took one less LSD tab than you did.  Even if you didn’t take any at all.  That, in and of itself, shows that Cyriak is quite brilliant.  But my brain can only take so much.  This recent effort of Cyriak’s has me wishing that I didn’t have to sleep.  Either way, Kitty City is as close to taking an acid trip without actually tripping as it is possible to get.  It makes me wonder what it would be like when viewed 90 degrees from reality.  Would it even be strange at that point?

• [Matthew]

  This is so whacked out!  I wish it was Titty City though.

• [irksome]

  Naked-Oregon-Lady-Inside-A-Gutted-Unicorn chaser, please.

• [BrianOman]

  OMFG LOLLERCATZ WOAH

• [jtegnell]

  Cyriak’s clip called “Cycles” is a wonder to behold (the one linked to above about Teddy Bears).

• [jtegnell]

  The music in Cycles is in four. Ugh. Deceptive!

• [Vengefultacos]

  Well, so that’s what Louis Wain would have produced if he had modern animation tools rather than just oil paints. Good to know.

• [edi]

  Watching Cyriak’s videos makes me feel so much less alone in my insanity. I think he and I see the same world when we close our eyes. I am so, so, so much less talented, however.

• [Mark Sniadecki]

  I am almost always a fan of non-sequitur and chaos. I like things that push envelopes and bend realities and play with the universe. I even like pointless things that look cool.

  I am not sure, however, that I am getting anything from this video…

• [jtegnell]

  Mark, I suspect there aren’t any deeper messages. It’s just visual playfulness.

• [RandomReason]

  Sponge Bob Chaser STAT.

• [Kimmo]

  I just went and watched a bunch of this guy’s other vids…

  Dude is tripping balls. So weird he’s almost scary.

• [KBert]

  OK, the cat thing’s cool; then I witnessed the others… then Beastenders = speechless!!!

• [laurasbadideas]

  I’m kind of disturbed by the fact that I didn’t find this disturbing.

• [thezarray]

  I know what this reminds me of now! Yoshi’s Island with a touch of snes Donkey Kong graphics in a lolcat sammich with a sprinkling of EarthBound.

• [Petzl]

  He’s like a fractal Terry Gilliam…

• [bnschlz]

  The only thing my 2 year old daughter wants to do on the internet is watch cyriak videos.

• [joeposts]

  reminded me of something …

• [Incipient Madness]

  I have added this to my Youtube faves and forwarded it to about twenty people. I have watched it seventeen times. I love the fractal cat legs.

  #OCCUPYKITTYCITY

  Sorry to go on and on about Occupy. It’s just that Occupy Houston had two marches in the last six days and I’m totally reved. Get out there y’all

• [shortsands]

  Do you all recon  Cyriack  is the man?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8T75I8-S1sg

• [hungryjoe]

  Man, that’s weird.  I’m showing this to my six-year-old.

  • [hungryjoe]

    Six-year-old likes it.

• [Felton / Moderator]

  Sometimes, I suspect that he is the internet, trying to communicate with us in a language it thinks we understand.

  Ah, so the internet thinks we’re made of cats.

• [Trent Baker]

  Its hypnotic isn’t it, you could loop it on some mega plasma screen and mesmerize pedestrians.

• [Eric Rucker]

  Can we get a unicorn chaser after that?

  • [haineux]

    I am fearful of what Cyriak would do with unicorns.

• [eryximachus]

  So… how much acid, exactly, does Cyriak drop in a day?

• [CourierPica]

  Here we have definitive proof that not all YouTube cat videos are unbearably cute. 

  Now if someone could just disprove Godwin’s Law, I’m pretty sure the internet would fold in half like a cardboard trampoline that’s been left in the rain.

• [SomeGuyNamedMark]

  Fractal Cats!

• [Michael Gates]

  I was less confused by this video than his earlier ones. The whole cats-growing-cats-out-of-their-cats thing… he’s done it already, with sheep, and cows, and hands, and spirally human faces.

  Not that I don’t LIKE it, it just doesn’t do much that he hasn’t done before.

• [knoxblox]

  My god…I can’t even imagine the cost of spaying and neutering exponentially reproducing fractal cats. How do you even spay or neuter a fractal cat?

  • [eviladrian]

    It only takes half as long to do each smaller one, so the whole series sums to two minutes!

  • [OtherMichael]

    you have to edit the algorithm so it is no longer self-reproducing.

    If that isn’t possible, you’ll have to call in a Cantorminator.

• [Jenonymous]

  ooooooooooooooooooookay.  Between this and the Codex Seraphinianus link, I can sincerely thank BoingBoing for making sure that my Monday, nay, my entire WEEK, will be nonproductive. 

  Yes to everyone RE “this is like dropping acid.”  I cannot un-see this.

• [Jenonymous]

  Finally remembered what this reminds me of.

  SPACE HARRIER.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Harrier

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34JbhA154To

  You are all very welcome.

• [kathy maloy]

  Erm… as of 3:23 Eastern, Kitty City has been replaced with… something extremely lame.  I was looking forward to another viewing.  Oh well, off to YouTube…