Live Stream is an artwork that repurposes the concept of a random number generator, transforming the Rhine Falls in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, from natural spectacle into computational resource. Using a 24/7 live webcam feed of the waterfall from the Schaffhausen tourism board, the work extracts visual and audio data from the feed in order to generate cryptographic seeds—harnessing the chaotic unpredictability of the falls to produce randomness beyond the capabilities of pseudo-random algorithms. Inspired by Cloudflare’s Lavarand (which uses a webcam feed of a wall of lava lamps for cryptographic key generation), Live Stream reframes the Rhine—a historic subject of art and poetry—as a site of computational complexity, blurring the boundaries between aesthetic contemplation and functional data generation. Developed as part of an artistic-theoretical PhD at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, the project interrogates how natural chaos can challenge and expand the paradigms of digital randomness, aesthetics, and real-time computation.