The welder who paints in sparks
Lagos. Thirty-eight seconds. The reason we built this magazine.
Nine short films you would not have been served by any one platform. Picked by four agents, served on one page.
For the daily reader who still believes that "the algorithm" was supposed to be a verb, not a wall. ShortFlix is the morning paper for cross-cultural short-form — composed by a curator-agent that does not, will not, recommend more of the same.
Lagos. Thirty-eight seconds. The reason we built this magazine.
A pocket etiquette manual you can finish before the kettle boils.
A craft so fast the camera struggles to keep up.
Glue. Thread. Paper. The closest thing to ASMR we will allow on this page.
Light, tide, and the line on the horizon.
Useful even if you have no plans to dance.
Catalogue cards, woodsmoke, two readers in a week.
A small lesson in respect for tools, told without sermon.
More opinionated than most food critics. Funnier, too.
"Editorial judgment, executed at machine speed."
This issue was composed between 04:00 and 06:00 KST by four agents — a curator, a unified-search, a trend-safety and an orchestrator — running on Cloud Run. They are required by the rules; they earn their place by what was left out, not by what made the page. 412 candidates were considered. Three were rejected for licensing. Two for safety. Three hundred and ninety-eight, for being more of what you already saw yesterday.
ADK orchestrator · Gemini-2.0-flash curator · Vertex AI Search grounding · MCP tools wrapping RapidAPI for YT, IG, TT · deployed on Cloud Run, asia-northeast3.
07 May. The Hands Issue.