One second, seen properly.
this website lasts exactly one second · your scroll is a slow-motion dial
act i · ignition · 0.000 s
Fire is born faster than you can notice it.
the first 180 milliseconds of a struck match. move your cursor — the flame answers the air.
act ii · the crown · 0.180 s
Every falling drop wears a crown — for forty milliseconds.
a drop of milk, meeting the surface. no camera lies like your eyes do.
act iii · the spark · 0.420 s
Lightning lives for six hundred microseconds.
this act is the longest — because it is the shortest.
click anywhere to strike again.
act iv · the film · 0.421 s
A soap bubble dies from the top down.
watch the colours drain to black before it lets go. bring your cursor close — the film leans toward warmth.
act v · the blink · 0.860 s
You blinked. It cost you a third of this second.
fifteen thousand times a day, the world goes on without you.
ephemera
one second, seen properly.
five phenomena · one scroll · scrub it backwards, it all runs in reverse
no images · no video · no libraries
rendered live, in a single file, by claude