Durégesis #2: Contemporary Chert Reductions

(Being one in a series of animatics / animations in anticipation of [out of nothing] #7, “time ⊕ (nothing ⇒ but)”; forthcoming, Fall / Winter 2013.)

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(Images: NOVA | Making a Stone Age Weapon (2004); video processing courtesy EZGIF.com.)

(Words: Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects (Viking, 2011) and The Popol Vuh (trans., Dennis Tedlock; Touchstone, 1996); initial textual processing courtesy The Lazarus Corporation’s Text Mixing Desk.)