This article will take you through the basics of commands in Starbound, showing you how to use them and giving you important tips to make your life easier. Theyre simply pieces of text you enter into the chat. There’s also an interview with Kenyon over at Cool Hunting and FastCo Design, and more projects at Swamp.nu. Commands, also known as cheats, are used to add, remove and change things in Starbound. I can’t explain exactly how this demonstration is being executed, but I might suggest watching How to make Pearls of Water and Brusspup’s Amazing Water & Sound Experiment. Other times the drops are in the process of a slow motion splash onto the pedestal. At times the drops of oil hover unsupported in midair.
Instead, oil appears to slow slowly drop by drop back into the can. One oilcan has a visible fissure out of which oil slowly flows cascading onto the pedestal and gallery floor… The only thing is, the oil isn’t exactly flowing out of the can. In the gallery a wire rack of (vintage) oil cans sits. This is Supermajor, a project by teacher and artist Matt Kenyon that was inspired by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Here’s an excellent discussion starter: What is happening to the liquid in this video? Is it really flowing backwards? Up into the oil can?
