# Blind Ant

> Blind Ant is Charlotte Joanne's design fiction practice, where much of the CharliVerse is first written down, and where every picture's description comes first.

**Real.** This entry is about something real, written from outside the CharliVerse.

**[Blind Ant](https://blind-ant.com/)** is an independent design fiction practice, authored and operated by [Charlotte Joanne](https://charli.info/charlipedia/charlotte-joanne/). It makes speculative worlds, stories, fictional documents, animations and artworks, and documents how they were made. Much of what CharliPedia records was first written down there.

## How it works

Its work is hung like an exhibition. A **Piece** is a complete work; each Piece is made of **Objects**: a story, a press release, a job advert, a cover. Every Object has a wall label, and where there is a picture or a film, the label is its description, and the description comes first. The picture follows it. Every picture at Blind Ant is drawn, painted or rendered in code; no image generator is used.

Blind Ant's own companies and characters, such as [Aegis Dynamics](https://charli.info/charlipedia/aegis-dynamics/), can have websites of their own as subdomains of blind-ant.com, which say on every page that they are fictional. Aegis has one at [aegisdynamics.blind-ant.com](https://aegisdynamics.blind-ant.com/).

## Its Pieces

- [Always Six](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/always-six/)
- [Do Androids Dream of Electric Ants?](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/do-androids-dream/)
- [DeathBot 2000](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/deathbot-2000/)
- [Heart Attacks](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/heart-attacks/)
- [Oil Rigs to Training Rigs](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/oil-rigs-to-training-rigs/)
- [Street Philosophy](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/street-philosophy/)
- [Poppy Petticoats and the Magic Wand](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/poppy-petticoats-and-the-magic-wand/)
- [Mostly Tuesdays](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/mostly-tuesdays/)
- [Come and Get Me](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/come-and-get-me/)

Everything at Blind Ant is CC BY-SA 4.0, every crawler is welcome, and every page is also published as Markdown.

## In the CharliVerse

Blind Ant is a practice within the CharliVerse, not the whole of it. Being fictional does not make something Blind Ant: the fashion houses [Iceberg Hosiery](https://charli.info/charlipedia/iceberg-hosiery/), [Seamiotics](https://charli.info/charlipedia/seamiotics/) and [LULU TOM](https://charli.info/charlipedia/lulu-tom/) belong to the world, though Blind Ant can publish the making of their work. Its sister practice is [Carrados](https://charli.info/charlipedia/carrados/).