A super chill music website

Recently, I’ve been kind of inspired by this Brian Eno quote:

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

For this reason, I’ve decided to build a chill music website for listening to vinyl records. Imo, the feel of interacting with music is just as important as listening to the music itself, and in an age of ultra-high-fidelity lossless downloads on Spotify, I think there’s something special about vinyl (and this is coming from someone who listens to a ton of Spotify). It’s taken a while to get this 3D view set up, and there are still a lot of bugs and sound effects I want to fix or implement to bring everything to life, but the challenge has been making the experience feel as tactile as possible. I look forward to seeing where this’ll go :)

A super chill music website

Recently, I’ve been kind of inspired by this Brian Eno quote:

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

For this reason, I’ve decided to build a chill music website for listening to vinyl records. Imo, the feel of interacting with music is just as important as listening to the music itself, and in an age of ultra-high-fidelity lossless downloads on Spotify, I think there’s something special about vinyl (and this is coming from someone who listens to a ton of Spotify). It’s taken a while to get this 3D view set up, and there are still a lot of bugs and sound effects I want to fix or implement to bring everything to life, but the challenge has been making the experience feel as tactile as possible. I look forward to seeing where this’ll go :)

Finished the fourth part of the webOS Jam! I’m thinking that maybe I want to pivot to a pokemon-themed browser? I’m really not sure, but I want a unifying theme that I like… but is still representative of me. At least the apps will be pokemon-themed.

Anyways, I added a Kartana-themed notes app. I thought Kartana would be appropriate since it’s a pokemon modelled after origami!

Got the text system to work! I needed to rip assets from another open-source decomp of pokemon emerald (which uses many languages). For now, though, this is still a walking simulator.

In terms of what I want to work on next… It’s either make pokemon catchable (a huge huge goal that needs backend work to even begin) or allow Brendan to jump down ledges (smaller task thats just dealing with animations, spritesheets, and cameras)

Just finished the 3rd part of the webOS Jam. Along with achieving the required tasks, I included a macOS-inspired traffic light button menu in the header. This is the 2nd (in addition to the dog gif) improvement I have made over the guide.

Something that was challenging to perfect was the little icons (specifically the chevrons) within each of the buttons.

I’m not sure if I want to continue with a strictly macOS design philosophy, though. I anticipate I’ll add a finder and other advanced functionality. If I abide by a macOS design philosophy, that might make the UI unecessarily bloated so I might do some paper sketches of something that looks like macOS but is more simplistic. We’ll see, though!

First 2 Parts of webOS Jam!

Added middle div, background image, and top bar. A challenge that I undertook for the top bar was adding the gif of the dog in the center.