psst... you found it

The Lab

where I make things that don't need a business case

01

Self-Portrait in Code

The website you're on right now, drawn from its own source. Hand-coded, no templates, no frameworks — every dot is a dozen lines of the real code, spiraling out file by file from the center.

Hand-coded11,533 linesData self-portrait
02

Golden Gate, Plotted

The bridge, rebuilt from nothing but charts — bar-graph towers, scatter-plot cables, area-chart tides, and a fog bank plotted from twelve months of San Francisco fog data. Statistics, but make it art.

Data: GG Bridge District — monthly traffic · NWS — SF fog climatology

Canvas APIData ArtKarl the Fog
03

Reaction Lab

I measure human performance for a living — care to measure yours? Click the pad, wait for green, then click as fast as you can.

your best: — ms · world-class is ~200 ms

Human PerformanceReaction TimeNo Jumping the Gun
04

Color Studies

Palette explorations. Moods in hex. That specific space between teal and lime where this whole portfolio lives? I spent two weeks finding it.

Color TheoryPalettesObsession
05

Interaction Sketches

The hover effects and scroll moments that almost made it into the real portfolio. Some were too weird. Some were too slow. All were fun.

PrototypingMotionThe Graveyard

If you scrolled this far, you're probably someone I'd want to work with.