A quiet picture of the north of Thailand that keeps changing: a forest, a village, a farm, a market, the world of the old stories, the fish of a river pool, seen from under the water, a slow walk through dense flowering plants with no one on it, or the high country: a pine lake at dawn, the summit of Doi Luang Chiang Dao, a cascade in the forest, a stream among boulders. Every bird, animal, fish and insect in it decides for itself what to do next. ภาพชนบทล้านนาที่มีชีวิต สัตว์ทุกตัวตัดสินใจเองว่าจะทำอะไรต่อ · 北泰的画面在变化，每只动物自己决定下一步做什么。
How they decide: each kind has its own ways, written from how the real animal behaves. A buffalo grazes most of the day and wallows at noon; an egret walks at its feet for the insects it stirs up; a hen scratches and pecks, and her chicks run back to her when they stray; a grasshopper sits still until something comes close; a kingfisher watches the water from its perch, dives, and beats its fish on the branch; gibbons sing in the morning. Each one weighs its ways by the hour, by how hungry and how tired it is, and by who is near, and picks one.
Now and then one goes off the page, a bird flying off, a fish swimming away, and another comes in from the side. The sliders 🐦 🦋 🐟 🐃 🧑 set how many birds, butterflies, fish, animals and people there are, from none to three times as many: the ones not wanted go off the page, the new ones come in from the edges. แถบเลื่อนตั้งจำนวนนก ผีเสื้อ ปลา สัตว์ และคน · 滑块设置鸟、蝴蝶、鱼、动物和人的数量。
Watch, or press 🔈 for their sounds and the sounds around them, and tick 🎵 for quiet music made for each place. Nothing to do and nothing to win: it is a fish tank.
Drawn with the Lanna cartoon kit (github.com/ddtraveller/lannamation). The sounds are the kit's: most made for it by MOSS-SoundEffect (OpenMOSS, Apache-2.0) or given to everyone by those who recorded them (sounds.py names each). These are used under CC BY 4.0: the water buffalo, recorded by Ashwin A. in Aluva, Kerala (iNaturalist 249871642); the cicadas, by Wich'yanan (Jay) Limparungpatthanakij in Chom Thong, Chiang Mai (iNaturalist 344470233), who also recorded the white-throated kingfisher in Buriram (278101138); the crow (193695337), the spotted dove (194270206), the red-breasted parakeet (190984478) and the Asian common toad (221466417), by Sam Hambly in Thailand; the rice-field frog, by 古國順 in Yunlin, Taiwan (270181401); and the white-handed gibbon, by Thomas Gyselinck in Thailand (386482709). The common kingfisher is luc de bruijn's, "IJsvogel in Nieuwegein", under CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons). The barking deer, by Charles Joynson, was given to everyone (CC0).