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01 Studio

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We are a small creative studio focused on producing unique forms of hypermedia.

We've been working with video, audio, and web technologies since the 1990s.

Audio Editing &
Podcast Production

- mixing, mastering, packaging, editing out bg noises, content edit, natural convo/timing/pacing (killing awkward pauses, making everything fit), eq, levels
- producing ads? intro/outro tags?
- production design - feed/social artwork
- meta mgmt - show notes, titles, metadata
- audiograms 👍

Video Editing / Motion GFX

custom special effects (specializing in glitch/cyberpunk style, vaporwave aesthetic ~~)
platform-specific content production - for various formats (youtube, twit video, fb, etc)
-- produce/adapt content specifically for the intended medium/format
graphics for your youtube channel? you got it!
lower thirds, graphics packages (intros, credits, etc)
animated intros for your conference videos? no sweat!
MOTION GFX and VFX, animation, speciall effectts, editing, writing, production development/planning
video projection (projection mapping, installation visuals)
digital signage? sure why not

Web/App Development

web sites (responsive web design~~) custom admin/dashboard systems (dataviz, do whatever you want) mobile apps creative coding developer resources (docs sites, styleguides, design systems, etc) developing/implementing wireframes & prototypes - significant experience w/ ux (we rly rly rly care about UX) & ui development :) WE LOVE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE!!

Design / Marketing

we can offer assistance with branding / marketing design (any media/format) writing art direction digital ad production (audio, video, design) brutalist /vaporwave/glitch aesthetic

art direction

02 Demos

Podcasts

CASSETT.ES

mix tapes, made with love, and dropped an rss feed!

this series has been a labor of love, released in "seasons", updated occasionally (as life permits), haven't released anything in a while,

but we're bringing it back as a youtube series and making new episodes in 2020!

just started posting cool songs to twitter, check it

S1E5 - Mylar

S1E6 - Year Of The Snake

we did like the first 70 episodes of this show

most of the changelog shows were just editing but this one was a little more hands on

we also compiled show notes/links, wrote titles and descriptions, found pull quotes (/soundbites)

#29 Go and Buffalo Live from Dunkin' Donuts w/ Mark Bates

#35 Honeycomb, Complex Systems, Saving Sanity w/ Charity Majors

#39 Splice, Audio, Compassion w/ Matt Aimonetti

#43 Getting Better, Mentoring, Drawing Gophers w/ Ashley McNamara

#54 Go at Walmart (and Scale) w/ Chase Adams

#62 Building Blocks w/ Jeff Lindsay

CHANGELOG MEDIA — MISC SHOWS

A cool and long-running podcast about open source software and the people who build it. We've edited A LOT of conversations for their shows over the years. Here are some of our favorite episodes:

The Changelog

#221 How We Got Here w/ Cory Doctrow

#286 JavaScript sprinkles in Basecamp turned Stimulus w/ David Heinemeier Hansson

#272 Functional CSS and Tachyons w/ Adam Morse

#225 99 Practical Bottles of OOP w/ Sandi Metz

#227 Mad Science, WebTorrent, WebRTC w/ Feross Aboukhadijeh

JS Party

#3 JavaScript Fatigue, AMP, Paths.js w/ Mikeal Rogers, Alex Sexton & Rachel White

#10 yayQuery Reunion! w/ Alex Sexton, Paul Irish, Rebecca Murphey, and Adam Sontag

#13 Inside the Release of npm@5 and Sheetsee w/ Rebecca Turner, Kat Marchán & Jessica Lord

#15 Async Control Flow and Threats to the Open Web w/ Kyle Simpson

Request For Commits

#11 Funding the Web w/ Brendan Eich

#12 Crowdfunding Open Source w/ Evan You

#9 Open source and licensing w/ Heather Meeker

#15 Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout w/ Christopher Hiller

#19 Design, Software, & Open Source w/ Lauren McCarthy

Web Sites

The Flaming Lips

custom admin (w/ theme editor, also styleguide & interstitial manager, spam fighting tools / content moderation) for a popular rock band (and our neighbors).

community - user profiles, public photo/video galleries, news blog, audio player, tour schedule(/archive), users CAN comment on anything (not a lot do these days)

there used to be a forum and a store, but whatever reddit and then wb store thing whatever.

OKC Owl Cam

responsive web design, custom admin w/ 3rd party functionality for a seasonal live stream (that watches an owl nest)

admin allows crew members can to update graphics on the live stream ("nest news" w/ live weather, pantry stock). crew member profiles, activity tracker, contest

yes i have been bit by one of these owls

Jeff Click Design | Build

responsive web design, custom admin / back office [managing progress on homes & data for web site, client/trade communication, issue tracking, scheduling, file management] - for a ~~designer~~ home builder

profiles of every project [inventory/ showcase/ catalog], plan, community, client communication portal

tons of content (writing, design, photos) over the years

Ocean Companies

cool looking simple marketing site, obv custom multi-site CMS (central CMS that supplies content for 3 sites, adding more in the future) profiles for tenants, future tenant portal

and RWD templates for a commercial real estate development firm.

checc out the sites:
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NRHA

equestrian sport governing body, developed RWD templates and built the site structure (& styleguide), professionals profiles,

we also do custom work for some of their internal programs

also developed a simple ios app to for their member handbook

CSS Pentagram

it's a pentagram made out of css.

time sacrifice to the dark lord.

nobody really likes it, but i get a kick out it.

Open Source Projects

we love branding we love making useful things we use this stuff all the time projects over the years have necessitated (??) the development of this stuff, it's saved us tons of time they're works in progress

Stereo

we've had to build A LOT of the same kinds of things over and over over the past decade or so, and this framework has slowly developed to make things easier

now that it's solidified as a tool, we're putting effort into writing documentation and making it easy for people to learn so that they, too, may benefit from these solutions

it's like the easiest way to make web sites with php!

Darkwave

brutalist but user-friendly content management + design patterns

[see also: extendable admin, workflow, scaffolding, boilerplate]

for quickly developing complex admin-driven web applications

we've had to write a lot of these things where no appropriate solution existed (available solutions were "too much")

Smoke.js

this is a total classic from way back in the day (2011 if you believe that WOW)

featured in issue 35 of javascript weekly

it hasn't been updated in forever (sorry about the unanswered pull request for supporting ie7 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) but it's still alive and kickin (and ~i~ use it every day)

it's ok for software projects to be "done"

the marketing site has demos and docs!

Video & Motion GFX

VIDEOS ARE COMING SOON!!

We've got a large backlog of stuff that needs to be uploaded, which will be done as time permits!!!

In the mean time here's a vid of our buddy Steves doing a 360 whip skid in the bus station parking lot:

03 Ethos

We are living in the most empowering age in human history.

We are the transition generation.

We have one foot in matter and one foot in hyperspace.

All of the horror of history can be redeemed if we give the human adventure meaning.

And we give it meaning by discovering the [universal] totality within ourselves and amplifying it for each other.

And this dissolves boundaries, empowers the weak, enlightens the strong, and brings hope to all.

— Terence McKenna

public domain illustration credit: https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Griffon-and-prey/81805.html

04 Contact

mailto:office@hxgf.io