--- title: Sarth Calhoun description: Founder of Third Wall Studio, and creator of the Burlap app. Brooklyn. Data engineer, artist, and musician working in AI. url: https://www.sarth.net/ author: Sarth Calhoun --- Third Wall Studio · 2026 Third Wall Studio makes animation with filmmakers and artists. We mix live action, animation, and generative AI in the same production, not as a gimmick, but as part of the craft. New tools for ancient magic. [The studio](/conspiracies/third-wall-studio/) · [The films](/work/) · [Visual Reference Prompting](/transmissions/visual-reference-prompting/) - [Watching Shadows · with Doron Lev](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fghXNj-HdBg) - [Through the Brambles · directed by Jacob McCoy · a VR story, made in Burlap](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttWqwhzE-yA) - [Pigeon Problems · with Doron Lev](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs6KM7hFzxs) - [Truck Stop Love · with Doron Lev](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx9jIWSoEDQ) - [Meatsuitz Family Vacay · with Jacob McCoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ2LpA9P-LY) - [Introducing Burlap · the canvas under all of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP8939UdzSo) Burlap [Burlap](/conspiracies/burlap/) is the canvas underneath it all: a native app for visual creation and context management. Connect it to the latest models from OpenAI, Google, Runway, ByteDance, and more. When using your own API keys, your data never touches our server. [Download for Mac](https://burlap.app/download) · [burlap.app](https://burlap.app) · [Contraptions](/contraptions/) ![Burlap, infinite canvas for visual reference prompting.](/images/burlap.jpg) Burlap. Download at [burlap.app](https://burlap.app/download). ### Machine (10) [Burlap](/conspiracies/burlap/) · [Contraptions](/contraptions/) · [Ingather](/conspiracies/ingather/) · [External Tables, Partitions, CTEs, Window Functions, and Partitions](/transmissions/external-tables/) · [Why append-only](/transmissions/external-tables/why-append-only/) · [Building on external tables](/transmissions/external-tables/building-on-external-tables/) · [Current truth with window functions](/transmissions/external-tables/current-truth-with-window-functions/) · [Defending the boundary](/transmissions/external-tables/defending-the-boundary/) · [Living with the code](/transmissions/external-tables/living-with-the-code/) · [Devices](/devices/) ### Dream (32) [Third Wall Studio](/conspiracies/third-wall-studio/) · [The Gralbum Collective](/conspiracies/gralbum-collective/) · [Book of Sarth](/conspiracies/book-of-sarth/) · [Awakening (To Blacklist)](/conspiracies/awakening-to-blacklist/) · [Lulu](/conspiracies/lulu/) · [Junior Dad](/conspiracies/junior-dad/) · [Metal Machine Trio](/conspiracies/metal-machine-trio/) · [The Creation of the Universe, ambisonic installation](/conspiracies/creation-of-the-universe-ambisonic/) · [Yellow Pony](/conspiracies/yellow-pony/) · [Poughkeepsie](/conspiracies/poughkeepsie/) · [Hidden Books, Hidden Stories](/conspiracies/hidden-books-hidden-stories/) · [Vivid LIVE 2010](/conspiracies/vivid-live/) · [Lou Reed’s 2011 European tour](/conspiracies/lou-reed-2011-european-tour/) · [Lou Reed’s song band](/conspiracies/lou-reed-song-band/) · [Lou Reed spring 2008 U.S. tour](/conspiracies/lou-reed-spring-2008-tour/) · [Power and Serenity](/conspiracies/power-and-serenity/) · [Lucibel Crater](/conspiracies/lucibel-crater/) · [Number19](/conspiracies/number19/) · [I Just Believe in Christmas](/conspiracies/i-just-believe-in-christmas/) · [Reflections, Vol. 1](/conspiracies/reflections-vol-1/) · [Singles](/transmissions/singles/) · [Transmissions from the Book of Sarth](/transmissions/transmissions-from-the-book-of-sarth/) · [Solsbury Hill](/transmissions/solsbury-hill/) · [Peggy Sue](/transmissions/peggy-sue/) · [The Creation of the Universe](/transmissions/the-creation-of-the-universe/) · [The Family Album](/transmissions/the-family-album/) · [Miracles](/transmissions/miracles/) · [Suspension](/transmissions/suspension/) · [I Before E](/transmissions/i-before-e/) · [Through the Brambles](/transmissions/through-the-brambles/) · [Introspections](/transmissions/introspections/) · [Lou Reed Live at Lollapalooza 2009](/transmissions/lou-reed-live-at-lollapalooza-2009/) ### Message (11) [DuckDB, where have you been all my life](/transmissions/duckdb-where-have-you-been-all-my-life/) · [Window functions, the mental model](/transmissions/window-functions/) · [SQL as the data language](/transmissions/sql-as-the-data-language/) · [You might not need Pandas](/transmissions/you-might-not-need-pandas/) · [Why Python is the default for data work](/transmissions/why-python-is-the-default-for-data-work/) · [Modern Postgres is shockingly capable](/transmissions/modern-postgres/) · [Node vs Rails: agnostic vs batteries included](/transmissions/node-vs-rails/) · [Visual Reference Prompting](/transmissions/visual-reference-prompting/) · [Beautiful Tornado](/transmissions/beautiful-tornado/) · [About Awakening (To Blacklist)](/transmissions/about-awakening-to-blacklist/) · [Reaktor Live, June 27, 2023](/sightings/reaktor-live-2023/) Earlier Before the studio and Burlap: Number19 with Leah Coloff, Tony Diodore, and Mark Righter; Lucibel Crater with Coloff and Paul Chuffo; and [Book of Sarth](https://bookofsarth.com), the first gralbum. With [Lou Reed](/conspirators/lou-reed/) and [Ulrich Krieger](/conspirators/ulrich-krieger/), I made [Metal Machine Trio](/conspiracies/metal-machine-trio/) and recorded *The Creation of the Universe* over two nights at REDCAT. Lou and I later wrote the original [*Lulu* score](/conspiracies/lulu/) for [Robert Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director))’s [Berliner Ensemble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Ensemble) production; the [Metallica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica) album grew from those recordings. [Junior Dad](/conspiracies/junior-dad/) began in Lou’s apartment, with [Rob Wasserman](/conspirators/rob-wasserman/)’s electric upright running through Kyma. I still use Kyma and the Haken Continuum. [Sightings](/sightings/) [Rumors](/rumors/) [Devices](/devices/) [Book of Sarth](https://bookofsarth.com) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/6uUtOazhiVXfNU8KAglFv9) ![Sarth Calhoun playing a Haken Continuum Fingerboard.](/images/continuum.jpg) Sarth Calhoun at the Continuum.