August 22, 2011 – 6:45 pm

This site was designed and developed for artist Sarah Lee. The site is a custom theme built around the WordPress framework. This allows the artist to access and alter the content as they wish without changing the basic design. This particular theme has a built in image slideshow for each project, automatic thumbnails and built in Vimeo embedding.
Visit the site at: artsarahlee.com

August 10, 2011 – 3:34 pm

This website/project was a collaboration with Lee Johnson, Rachel Klinghoffer and Benjamin Peterson as a way to memorialize 9/11 ten years later. More about the project here: thememoryproject.com. I worked with them to develop a way to pull random images from a tumblr feed and create a slideshow. This involved using JavaScript, jQuery, JSON and PHP.
Please visit the site at: thememoryproject.com


This website was created for my fellow Digital + Media colleagues to help promote our individual work and our show For Real held at the Tompkins Projects gallery in Brooklyn, NY. The site was hand coded from scratch using html, CSS, PHP and some jQuery. The site is at risddigitalmedia.com.

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When digital video is edited it must be compressed into one of many formats to be displayed in a video player like QuickTime. Each time the footage is saved or compressed, some data is lost. Depending on the compression, this can be a significant amount of data, especially when changing the screen size or file size of the video. Once this data has been lost, it cannot be recovered. In most video workflows, editors take special care to not compress their video too many times before their final render. Compressing video too many times can have the same effect of photocopying a photocopy multiple times. After a while, the video is no longer crisp, colors are no longer true and small artifacts become large artifacts.
This program exploits that process. It compresses a video file endlessly allowing for interesting results.
Examples after the break
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This website was created to host my personal work. It was completely hand coded using hmtl, CSS, PHP, MySQL databases, ActionScript (Flash) and some jQuery. The whole site is actually one page that is completely re-generated by PHP each time the page is refreshed or a link is pressed, with the exception of the video pages. Those pages hold a blank Flash element that receives a variable from the PHP encoding in the address bar and plays the appropriate file. This allows me to upload any video to a folder and simply point the page to that video file name without having to change any ActionScript or html. The site is at: justinphillipson.com


A website that never loads.
Created using ActionScript and an exponential decay algorithm that slows the loading progress as it approaches 100%, never allowing it to reach. Check it out here.

This interactive sculpture interrupts any conversation in the vicinity in order to talk about itself. It politely apologizes and asks the viewer to continue what they were saying only to interrupt them again. read more »