Directory Directory

About

A directory of fictional companies, complete with mottoes, addresses, and phone numbers. Made for NaNoGenMo 2019, a month-long generative writing challenge.

See the directory online at directory.olliepalmer.com, and find the code for the text and website generation on GitHub.

Details

2019
Code, website

Code, libraries, and languages

All code is available on GitHub; project distributed under an MIT Licence.
Project uses Tracery and Python.
Website uses a modified version of Just the Docs, a theme for Jekyll.
Project uses data from the Wordnet corpora.

Students of the Scripted Design course I run at MIVC are putting on a show at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media on 17 December, in which they will showcase their work from the course: a series of rules-based videos, and films which compile videos made every day throughout the course into one video artefact.

The show has been curated by Yusuf Deniz, Bregje Horsten, and Leonardo Landoni.

Do come along! 17 December, V2_ Rotterdam, 18-21h.

For more information about the course, see sd.olliepalmer.com

NaNoGenMo 2019: Directory Directory

2019-12-01 by Ollie Palmer

I decided to participate in NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) this year with a project called Directory Directory – an online directory of fictional companies, all located within the Alphaville-Zulutown region. It’s organised like an old phone book, by service type, and each company has a name, slogan, address, and phone number.

Some day in the future I’ll update the directory to have more information, and use more advanced grammar, and maybe even be printable. But the project was a nice excuse to learn some new things (the Tracery library for python is fun to play with; it’s also the first time I’ve built a workflow to build a whole generative website).