Sweet. I think these tools live in a very big blind spot for a lot of artists. There's an understandable impulse to conspicuously curse anything AI. I presume it's largely to signal solidarity with artists currently working in services (who will face some difficult career pivots). But, with the other edge of the blade, there's just so much potential to automate administrative drudgery around a practice, and even to express a vision in new ways and at new scales.
This was coded with Claude assistance also. It's a procedural system for one of the motifs that won't stop following me into my dreams and nightmares: https://pacificcrestgothichorror.com/
Tried the Brave browser (looks a lot like Edge tbh) and dig your site, especially the fun little cursor.
It's really too bad that for about 5 years (2000-2005?) websites were actually getting really cool! All kinds of amazing interactivity and interesting layering was getting built into sites, even some of the corporate ones. Communication Arts (also sadly gone with NO replacement equivalent at all) even had a category around web-interactivity to their yearly survey of "Best of Design". And then... I dunno, it just dried up.
That was the heyday of Flash. You could do amazing things with Flash, but the resulting sites were a lot of work (read: expensive) to maintain and update. Flash started to get a bad odor around the time of the Web Standards Project in the late 2000s. It ended the Browser Wars and moved HTML to a living standard. But as a side effect, those animation-heavy, semantics-free Flash sites lost popularity. I agree with you that a lot of the fun disappeared as well. No one has produced a Homestar Runner since then. Lest anyone assume I'm kidding, I think that's a real shame.
I'm not sure how you would have found out about it if you're not already an Unstoppable Domains customer. They announced it by email and on their X account.
Sweet. I think these tools live in a very big blind spot for a lot of artists. There's an understandable impulse to conspicuously curse anything AI. I presume it's largely to signal solidarity with artists currently working in services (who will face some difficult career pivots). But, with the other edge of the blade, there's just so much potential to automate administrative drudgery around a practice, and even to express a vision in new ways and at new scales.
This was coded with Claude assistance also. It's a procedural system for one of the motifs that won't stop following me into my dreams and nightmares: https://pacificcrestgothichorror.com/
Cool project.
Tried the Brave browser (looks a lot like Edge tbh) and dig your site, especially the fun little cursor.
It's really too bad that for about 5 years (2000-2005?) websites were actually getting really cool! All kinds of amazing interactivity and interesting layering was getting built into sites, even some of the corporate ones. Communication Arts (also sadly gone with NO replacement equivalent at all) even had a category around web-interactivity to their yearly survey of "Best of Design". And then... I dunno, it just dried up.
Glad you added in the little flourish on yours!
That was the heyday of Flash. You could do amazing things with Flash, but the resulting sites were a lot of work (read: expensive) to maintain and update. Flash started to get a bad odor around the time of the Web Standards Project in the late 2000s. It ended the Browser Wars and moved HTML to a living standard. But as a side effect, those animation-heavy, semantics-free Flash sites lost popularity. I agree with you that a lot of the fun disappeared as well. No one has produced a Homestar Runner since then. Lest anyone assume I'm kidding, I think that's a real shame.
I had no idea this kind of contest existed... I need to up my knowledge I guess.
I'm not sure how you would have found out about it if you're not already an Unstoppable Domains customer. They announced it by email and on their X account.