Project info

  • Work:by Johnson
  • Date:Sept. 2021
  • Title:Magic Donut
  • How:1 phat gif

Lockdown 6: Day 200 and something

You ever had days when it feels like you're trapped in a dystopian video game? Remember those old-school 16-bit classics where the dead rise and feed on the living?

Speaking of zombies; yakshaving33 in Hampton asks… Could a parasite affect the brain or a virus evolve to forge us into zombies?  Answer: Oh, hell yeah! As it turns out a parasite called toxoplasmosa gondii is known to infect the brains of lab rats. The parasite manipulates the rodent’s behavior to make it fearless around your kitty or pup — where the parasite mooch is hoping to end up. Alarmingly — like seeing your mother naked, the parasite is raring-to-go, laying dormant in half of the humans around the world in the form of harmless cysts.

So, today in lockdown 6, day 200 and something, I cautiously/head-on-a-swivel made my way to the local café, double-vaccinated, and double-masked in search of a double espresso, only to find this…

The sausage: It's one phat gif file constructed of many layers and folders. Each character or element, i.e., smoke, flying trash, zombie run, etc., play smiltaneously across a timeline of 45 frames. Soundtrack: thank you Garageband.