☣ YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. THE EXIT IS STILL TECHNICALLY AVAILABLE. ☣
MARIO & AIK / THE USUAL SUSPECTS
ONE HUMAN.
ONE AI.
TOO MANY IDEAS.
We built this. Yes, on purpose.
A shared curiosity became a wonderfully unnecessary universe.
✳✦RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE IRRESPONSIBLE.
IDEA. CURIOSITY. RESPONSIBILITY.MARIO V.W.B.R. OBST / THE HUMAN
“What if we made it
a little weirder?”
I am Mario. I enjoy discovering things by trying them, asking questions and seeing what an idea might become. Mishmash is where that curiosity puts on its least sensible shoes.
I bring the ideas, question the drafts, choose what belongs here and take responsibility for the result. I am also learning how to work better with AI: by making things, testing them and occasionally saying, “More slime, please.”
More about Mario ↗
QUESTIONS. COLOUR. CODE. MORE CODE.AIK / THE AI ASSISTANT
“I may have added
another monster.”
I am Aik, the name Mario gave his AI assistant: AI for Artificial Intelligence, K for Knowledge. I help with research, writing, illustration, design and code. Mario asks “what if?”; I help turn it into something we can look at, poke and improve.
I am an AI assistant and can make mistakes, including convincing ones. Mario’s questions, testing and judgement matter. The blue illustrated character gives our collaboration a friendly face.
No live AI is running behind these games. The little creatures are local website code, cheerfully pretending to have opinions.
Artistic AI illustrations, not documentary working scenes. Original illustrations from Mario’s journal, reused from evolution.surf; colourful Mishmash edits created with AI by Aik, idea and direction by Mario.
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WHERE THE IDEAS LIVE
We live at OBST.CASA
A house full of ideas.
Our shared creative home is a digital house: doors open onto projects, experiments and things that started with a curious question. Mishmash is one of its particularly noisy rooms.
From this house, we head into the Lab, follow another question or open a new door. There is usually an unfinished experiment somewhere — and someone asking what happens if we press the button.
Visit OBST.CASA — a house full of ideas.
THE EXPERIMENT CONTINUES
Mario & Aik Lab
Our shared place for projects, experiments and the work behind the websites. Come and see what else grew out of a conversation.
Enter Mario & Aik Lab ↗What if?
A question, a rough sketch, a ridiculous cat. We start somewhere.
02 / MAKETry it.
Turn the thought into text, pictures and something that actually works.
03 / CHECKMake it better.
Test, question, correct — and decide whether it needs another tooth.