I did Genuary last January 2025, which is a project where you do one creative coding sketch per day, and each day you are given a prompt, for the direction or concept that should be. I had a lot of fun doing this, and was hoping to do it again this year, but wanted to do something more video circuits aligned. I feel the prompts this year are a little less “poetic”, and it will also be a push to lever in video circuits stuff into that, so I am here to float the idea:
VENUARY 2026
Basically, submit a phrase or word or quote or sound or concept or fact or number, and then we assign these to the days of January, 1-31, and create something each day on the prompt.
We can post them here, and also on usual socials, using #venuary and #venuary1#venuary2#venuary3 etc.
It’s quite last minute (2 days to go), but can knock-up a microsite, if can get this off the ground / not just chatting nonsense into the void. So encouraging contributions here - just type anything that comes to mind - here are a couple of quotes that sprung to mind:
Wenn zu perfekt Gott ist bose (Nam June Paik)
Whether a hundred or a thousand bottles pass through your bladder - nothing more than a filter (must have sound)
Would be up for that! But February is a busy one, and also like last minute preparation. Maybe something in Spring could be nice - flowers start to bloom, life starts to pick up again - also because it would be possible to turn April into Vavril, and on the 14th have to do Vavril 14th
i like the idea! scanlines can be a slow moving social medium (which i like about it haha) so i just saw this. if i know, say, 2 weeks in advance, i can probably plan around something like this any month. here’s a prompt idea:
infrathin.
it’s a thing from marcel duchamp, concept very much open to interpretation (hence fun as a prompt).
let me know if peeps are on board. also, yay, websites!
heres some words from a general titles hoarding doc i keep
neon moss
hot signals
morphed knob
electric pentacle
diaschisma
psychospiritual organ
text predator
sext ape
cosmodrome
video wafers
crystal controls
crucial vortex
Love the suggestions! And yes for certain let’s pencil it in for April - will circle back to put together a micro-site closer to the date, and for now please keep submitting suggestions
Love it, yes - I’m a bit wrapped up until next week but will then get onto website, been working on some micro/static site gubbins for pulling it together. Suggestions for aesthetics or how to do this welcome, and I’ll circle in with Paloma.
…sorry, i am too tired - tried to read the thread three times now and do not get the task at hand: make one video per day? - make those videos relate somehow - how?!? - to the words above?…
…i made a three hours livestream and a 1-minute vlog this week: have i made ‘points’ with those already?…
…i will not be able to post a video every day - i might be able to post 30 videos in a 30 days time-span though - what is required to fulfill the requirements?…
in reply to @fairplay but also my comments in general:
i think the idea is that before the month begins, we will gather all of the prompts people came up with and match each of them with 1 specific day in april, so there would be 1 prompt per day for a total of 30 days.
i tried to do 1 video per day once, and it was kind of stressful and i didn’t end up doing it for the whole month, BUT i did make a lot of cool stuff in a short period of time.
for this (vavril?) i think anyone can participate to whatever degree they want - the prompts are like, a source of inspiration, not a mandate. i don’t think there should be any gatekeeping to posting in the thread or using the hashtag. miss a day? no problem. made two videos in one day? post em both, why not. it should be like, a fun thing, no pressure, or just enough pressure to make you do something you already wanted to do, if it’s helpful!
when this actually happens, i think we should start a new thread with the actual month we’re doing it (april, not january) and a clear explanation as the first post, including the full list of prompts, so that people don’t have to do detective work to figure out what’s going on
100% as Paloma said - when I checked out the Genuary site it looks like they’ve had a lot of people feeling pressured, so it would be pretty much the same as this on the “yo, chill ya boots” participation - as much or as little internal motivation as comfortable. I found it challenging in 2025 and chose to “push myself”, but mixed it up by trying to mix it up - for example taking a bike ride out somewhere to grab photos or videos, then doing something later in the evening. Variety as spice of life, and I’m thinking of techniques of closed-eyes-drawing, or opening eyes for 2 seconds, closed for 5 seconds, whatever works to “hack” patterns and switch it up. Again, no pressure - and it could be a single project you’re working on, with updates each day, or attempting some new technique every day, or just compositing together phone footage in iMovie on the bus.
I suppose at this stage, we could be thinking “things that AI could never replicate” and also “things that could never be data-scraped or programmatically analysed”
…i am still not up to speed - and i am really sorry about that, but still hope for your help:
in the first couple of posts the ‚task/target‘ is described as ‚create something‘ - so, what is ‚something‘?
The site linked to in the first post is a site that invites people to ‚code‘ something, ‚prepare a framework before january‘.
Given the general topic of the scanlines-site i guess this would translate into ‚film/make a video/make video art/code/glitch/patch‘ to create a visual media (video) to share on this site.
Is this the idea? - make a video related to the prompts for each day in april and post it here?
No, all good - this is a “work out what to do” thread, not prescriptive. I think we got there so I’m working on the microsite today, and then will circle back with you for feedback would be appreciated - I’m g@sinnott.cc so drop me a “hi” if you can!
Back from an event in Berlin - tried to argue for the unification of Cyprus, and it was decided I must be a Russian agent, problematic subversive, or quite mad.
it’s been a while since last here!
