Projects
Josh is a serial project starter. This is a list of current and not-so-current things he’s been working on in the last few years. If you’ve got questions about, or ideas for, a specific project, let him know.
Bloggish and on-going stuff:
Garkov — Garfield + Markov chains, a dynamic pseudo-Garfield generator.
Mulder’s Big Adventure, a project with wife Angela to recap all 202 episodes of The X-Files.
Big Big Question, a free-for-all question-and-answer site aimed at conversation starters and what ifs.
Josh’s photos (and misc. images) on Flickr.com.
Bunt Cake, a surreal comic strip featuring chopped up baseball cards.
Laundryroom Swapmeet, a varyingly snarky and absurdist log of items abandoned on the laundry room table in Josh’s apartment building.
Pedestria, a minimalist photoblog of pedestrians in and around Portland, OR.
Pen & Inklings, a hybrid sketchbook and journal.
Refi: Metafilter revisited, a periodic examination of Metafilter’s early history and of trends and memes on the site over time.
Metafiltr, a goofy congolomeration of odd Metafilter-related media and information.
butts lol, an aggressively pointless collection of visual, textual, and semantic references to both “butts” and “lol”.
One-offs and static works:
Polyorama, a collection of randomizable, reconfigurable artworks from various artists.
Manifests, an album of original music written and recorded in February, 2007.
Retro-Histo, an steganography-lite experiment in image histogram manipulation.
Blues Name Generator, a machine that uses fruit, dead white guys, and medical horrors to generate random stage names.
HURF DURF METAFILTER ANALYZER, an examination of several hundred varations on the phrase “hurf durf” over the years on metafilter.
Verbing Metafilter, a look at the several major intended meanings of the word “metafiltering”, on and off the site.
Meficomp, the home of the Metafilter compilation album: 24 tracks from various members of of Metafilter, produced as a fundraiser for children’s music education.
MarkovFilter, a stochastic modeling toy that synthesizes new text from Metafilter users’ commenting histories.