A first look at
A clay sunflower who reflects the shape of your day. In the making for iPhone.
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He has a face and a temperament. He reads, sits in the sun, stretches after a workout, and gets thirsty when an evening disappears into the apps you meant to avoid. He never dies.
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Movement, sleep, reading, mindfulness and focused work help him along. Too long in the apps you chose leaves him thirsty. One look at his mood tells you how the day is going. No dashboard.
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The garden keeps the hour. Dawn, day, dusk and night, with the sun and the moon where they should be. Come back after a while and he shows you what changed while you were away.
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Sketching, sunbathing, sitting still, a workout. Each one is a short stop-motion performance, posed and held frame by frame, so the plant acts rather than animates.
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Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no server, no analytics. You choose which signals count, and the plant follows plain rules rather than a model's opinion of your day.
Bloom is in private testing. More soon on Instagram.