Jack: I can comprehend pain as pleasure conceptually, but honestly, my kink is when people are nice to me. An art form only humans can do? I guess making a baby but hell, I bet computers will be able to do that at some point too. It’s more the question of what computers won’t *want* to do, which is obviously a Nickelback cover band.

Kemp: Ectogenesis is artificial wombs and they’re already a thing. I want to volunteer to try. You know, the first pancake is always a bit botched anyway. I assume my first kid will be, too.

Jack: Well this video is basically the baby from our artificial womb. Tell the badass readers at ‘Nasty’ how we created the rain in one of your shots from the video? Any other DIY video production stories?

Kemp: Since we couldn’t afford a proper rain machine, I researched cheap ways to simulate rain. Most of it was overly complicated plastic tubing with holes, DIY built pole rigs and hose attachments. Had a vision of you and me at Home Depot spending hours we didn’t have trying to find specific drill bits. Then finally thought of using water guns to shoot a piece of cardboard over my head, which would cause it to ricochet down like rain mist. So I ordered 3 super soakers and the crew went to town like a firing squad on me. Was a good way for them to get out their aggression towards my bitch ass, ha, all for the cheap price of 26$.

Jack:  My favorite moment though was you doing the fitting in that shit Queen Elizabeth costume from amazon and parading around like Monty Python. It looked so bad in my living room but somehow on camera you turned it into haute couture. We did the same with making that dress for me out of tulle and shaved sheep wool raw from a farm (it came in a box with grass and leaf bits we had to pick out and smelled like manure.)

Jack: As artificial intelligence becomes the next art movement (with programs like Dall-E and the neural networks we used for Simulator) do you worry painting, music, and especially truck driving will lose some of its soul?

Kemp: It’s funny you mention truck driving because when I was 9, looong before self driving cars, I used to have reccurring nightmares about a driverless car following me everywhere and trying to kill me, while I kept trying to hide from it. Later I discovered a 1977 horror film about an unmanned car that gets possessed and goes on a similar murderous rampage. I am pretty sure this is what inspired Elon to start Tesla. But yeah, most human art has no soul now anyway so that’s an even bigger concern to me than A.I.

Kemp: Speaking of soulless (which immediately conjures an image of LA trophy wives on chopping boards) – what experimental body modification do you think people in the future will get? Praying mantis arms? Lots of eyeballs like our video?

Jack: I know I’m deffo getting more arms to look like a Hindu Goddess and spell out a thousand profanities with my fingers at standup comedy cellars for the deaf.

Kemp: Will humanity survive for another millennia, and what do you think will eventually wipe us out? Robots fighting for their own rights, nukes, global warming or Tik Tok dances?

Jack: I think we’ll either blast off to some habitable moon or evolution will fuse us with technology and we’ll survive as post flesh humanoids. Or we’ll all die which sounds scary but I have a feeling the “other side” is pretty fab and I’m super overpaying rent anyway so, see ya later mortals!