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BotoZone

A wall of old CRT screens full of photos and wigglegrams. Drag it to browse, and tap a screen to see its picture full size.

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Sites · Archive

BotoZone is a photographic archive housed in a curved wall of salvaged cathode-ray screens. Each screen holds a single photograph or wigglegram, softened by the scanlines and vignetting of the old tubes. The wall has no edge: visitors drag it in any direction, and it carries on under its own momentum for as long as they care to keep going.

The collection itself is finite. The archive assigns photographs to positions on the wall by a fixed rule, so any stretch of wall always shows the same pictures, and returning to a familiar spot finds it exactly as it was left. Selecting a screen brings its photograph up at full size.

Wigglegrams make up much of the holdings: short loops that rock back and forth between the two views of a stereo photograph, so the scene appears to turn in depth. New material is added through the archive's own publishing desk.

BORJ

A museum walk through famous paintings, one doorway at a time, with brushes, spray paint and ink for “restoring” them.

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Sites · Gallery

BORJ is a museum without a fixed floor plan. Its rooms are laid out anew for every visit, a branching arrangement of galleries, corner rooms, junctions and dead ends, and visitors cross it the old way: one doorway at a time, pausing to look around from each spot before moving on.

Its walls hold some thirty public-domain masterpieces, from the Mona Lisa and The Starry Night to The Great Wave off Kanagawa and The Garden of Earthly Delights, fetched on arrival from the open collections of Wikimedia Commons and hung in single frames, triptychs, small grids and alcoves.

Visitors are not only permitted to alter the paintings; they are equipped to. Brushes, spray paint and ink are provided, with an undo, and the results stay on the wall for the rest of the visit. The museum takes its name from Borja, Spain, home of the Ecce Homo fresco whose well-meant 2012 restoration became the most famous in the world. It hangs here too.

Aprèn!

A studio for learning Catalan: flashcards, translation drills marked by an AI tutor, and quizzes on real Catalan music and video.

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Sites · Academy

Aprèn! (Catalan for "learn!") is a self-guided academy of the Catalan language. Its course rests on three disciplines: flashcard decks for vocabulary, translation drills marked by Claude, an AI tutor, and an immersion programme of real Catalan music, video, articles and podcasts, each followed by a comprehension quiz written for it.

Students may also commission new decks on any subject they choose, and the tutor will draw them up.

The academy keeps no central records. A student's progress, from known cards and translation history to immersion assignments and custom decks, is held entirely on their own device, with a backup and restore facility for moving it elsewhere. The tutor works from a key the student supplies, which never leaves the device either. Both are managed from a panel marked Configuració.

Stereo Bench

Lines up stereo photos shot on film and turns them into wiggle GIFs or red-cyan anaglyphs, right in your browser.

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Sites · Workshop

Stereo Bench is a workshop for restoring depth to stereo photographs shot on film, chiefly with the Stereo Realist, a two-lens camera at the height of its popularity in the 1950s. Every Realist exposure is a pair, left and right, and once the two frames are scanned they rarely line up, each picking up its own small twist, scale and offset along the way.

The bench corrects this by matching features between the frames and fitting the simplest correction that explains them, turning to a more flexible one only when the simple fit falls short. It never corrects the sideways offset between the frames, because that offset carries the depth of the scene. That call stays with the operator, who picks the point that should sit at screen depth, or stay planted while the rest of the picture swings around it. Differences in color, brightness and tone between the two scans can each be matched separately.

Finished pairs leave the bench as wiggle animations, red-cyan anaglyphs or side-by-side pairs. All work happens on the operator's own device; no photograph is ever sent anywhere.

VOYJ

A small ship drifting through space, with no goal and no end. Tilt your phone to steer, and touch the sky to play a note.

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Vessels · Drifter

VOYJ is a small craft adrift in open space. It has no destination, no score and no way to end the voyage; it exists to be steered gently and listened to. A voyage begins when the pilot presses Begin Voyage.

On devices with a motion sensor, tilting the device banks the ship and bends the pitch of the drone that travels with it. Touching the sky releases a burst of light and a plucked note, heard from the side of the sky that was touched, and holding and dragging pushes the ship faster.

The craft also reads the light around its pilot. Where the device can sense the light in the room, a brighter room brightens the scene and opens up the tone of the drone. Where it cannot, the ship estimates the light from the local time of day, and offers a manual control instead.