perspective studies
on its own page ↗a tool i made to help with my painting, because i'm bad at perspective. it turned out to be fun on its own, so enjoy.
on porpoise✳
always follow white rabbits
a space for serendipitous
art & science
hi i’m amr. I enjoy designing and making things. Sometimes thats genomics or biotech, sometimes websites and software. I also take pictures for fun and occasionally ruin my clothes painting or gardening. reach out
who is amr ↗this site is still being built. things will move, and some of them will be missing.
por·poise
/ˈpɔː.pəs/ noun1. A small toothed whale with a rounded head. An animal in its own right; not a baby dolphin.
On porpoise. Like “on purpose”, with a small marine mammal. The name is a pun. The work isn’t.
Etymology. Old French porpois ← Latin porcus ‘pig’ + piscis ‘fish’. Literally, ‘pig-fish’.
distractions
well-developed tangents
third word
on its own page ↗stand on a word, name a few fields you want to reach, and it finds the word that sits between them without belonging to either. it started as a way of naming a website.
strata
on its own page ↗search anything on wikidata that has a date and it becomes a lane, with every dated fact attached to it. stack a few and see who overlapped with whom.
fontfidgiter
on its own page ↗pick a typeface, or drop your own, and push the sliders: business, playful, loud, blobby, distressed. export what comes out as a font file.
voxel studio
on its own page ↗a plinth and a box of primitives. stack blocks, pillars, domes and crystals into something, then turn it around. no saving, no undo, no consequences.
tombolo
on its own page ↗land that surfaces at low tide. it crosses live domain prices with how common a word is, to find names worth more than they cost. third word's sibling.
science
Ancient viruses, read out of the genomes they left behind. The papers, and one film.
the science, so far ↗design
Websites, marks and names, when someone asks. Designed and built by the same person.
start something ↗Tell me what
you're making.