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Kentucky, flown over. McCracken County, in glass.

Your television opens on Kentucky as the rock lies, then lights every road to all 120 county seats. It flies to the Jackson Purchase and down into McCracken County, where 35,194 parcels rain down as glass and this year’s sales land on their dates. Then it rests, and the county’s heart beats green and red.

Tell me when it’s outWhat you’ll see
Every road in Kentucky lit, the bigger roads brighter, a green point on each county seatStill from the web until the TV capture
McCracken County's roads lit in gold, blue and coral, with parcels of glass falling over downtown PaducahStill from the web until the TV capture
McCracken County at rest, leaned back from the south: every parcel as glass, its roads lit, the Ohio along the topStill from the web until the TV capture

  1. 1Kentucky, as the rock liesFrame from the TV to come

  2. 2Light along every road to the 120 county seatsStill from the web until the TV capture

  3. 3The Jackson PurchaseFrame from the TV to come

  4. 4Glass rain over PaducahStill from the web until the TV capture

  5. 5This County's Lit.Still from the web until the TV capture

The opening, in under a minute, with a voice over it. Then the remote is yours.
  • 35,194parcels in McCracken County, raining down as glass
  • 120county seats, with light running in along every road
  • 1,742parcels that changed hands this year, landing on their dates
  • $236.9Mtransacted this year, counted up as the deeds land
  • 6regions, as the Kentucky Geological Survey draws them
  • 1 dayfrom the first ask to the release candidate

What you’ll see

The opening, as it plays on an Apple TV in McCracken County. The words in the dark are the TV’s own captions.

  1. Welcome to Kentucky

    The state as the Kentucky Geological Survey draws it: six regions, their own shapes across county lines. Light runs in from the state line, and the geology fades into the 120 counties. The rock was here first.

  2. Kentucky, 1792

    120 counties between the Ohio, the Mississippi and the mountains. The camera leans back, points of light stream along the roads to every county seat, and the rivers drift on their current.

  3. The Jackson Purchase

    A glide west to the Purchase: 8 counties in four colours, the rest of the state dimmed.

  4. Welcome to McCracken County

    Down to the county, its ground gone dark. Every road pours in, from the county line to downtown Paducah, in four seconds.

  5. McCracken’s parcels · January deeds

    35,194 parcels fall as glass, downtown first, then spreading, while the camera circles the county. The year’s deeds land on their dates, with ripples, crowns, beams and sparks. Top right, the money: every sale price added as its deed lands, rolling up to $236.9M, transacted.

  6. This County’s Lit.

    It comes to rest, north up. The 220 parcels that sold for more than last time beat green, the 11 that sold for less beat red, once every 1.2 seconds. Net change: +$34.5M.

The voice

A voice carries the opening, forty seconds of it, timed so its last line lands just after the last of the glass, with the green and red already beating.

Watching from somewhere else?

It opens on Kentucky the same way, then circles the state while McCracken rises out of the ground as glitter, and rests on Kentucky, lit, the counties gathered into their six regions. The remote takes you down to McCracken from there.

Every county’s roads

Drive into any of the 120 counties and its every road pours in. McCracken’s parcels are in; the rest arrive as each county’s property valuation office sends them.

The remote

Three levels, one remote: the state, a region, a county. Any press takes over from the opening.

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  1. 1

    Swipe

    Moves the light to the next region or county that way. Or click the edge of the pad. Up is up as you see it, even as the camera turns.

  2. 2

    Click

    Goes in: Kentucky, then a region, then a county. Each one gets its own flight, its lean back and its full circle.

  3. 3

    Back

    Up a level. From the whole state, Back takes you home.

  4. 4

    Play/Pause

    The opening again, voice and all.

  5. Leave it be

    Two minutes at rest and the opening plays again, quietly. The screen stays awake while it’s open, so it’s at home in a lobby or a waiting room.

The details

Your Apple TV

Apple TV 4K, with tvOS 18 or later. It runs smoothly even on the very first Apple TV 4K, from 2017.

No account. No ads. No tracking.

Open it and it plays. There’s nothing to sign up for, nothing to buy inside it, and nothing counting you.

Your location stays on the TV

It asks once, to greet you by your county. An Apple TV knows roughly which town it’s in, from Wi-Fi; the app checks that against the counties it has parcels for, on the Apple TV itself, and keeps nothing. Say no, and it says Hello Kentucky.

Ready when you are

The opening plays the moment you open the app, internet or not. Online, drive to any other county and its every road arrives as you get there. Nothing about you goes along.

The record, as art

Shapes, light and colour. No owner’s name and no mailing address ever comes on screen. The dollar figures are this year’s deed prices, which are public record.

Privacy and support

What every Taxr app keeps, and what it doesn’t: privacy. A question, or something not right on your TV: write to us.

Coming to the App Store

Kentucky, lit, on your television.

Version 1.0 is a release candidate, already running on an Apple TV in McCracken County. Tell us you’d like it, and we’ll write when it’s out.

Tell me when it’s out

Also coming to Apple TV: Quilt City, Paducah being sewn, every parcel a patch.

PVA Today for Apple TV, brought to you by Fork Development Corp.