John Smith

Listen. Design. Code. Craft. Iterate.

Hi. I'm a web developer/artist based in Hamilton, Ontario. Here are some of my project highlights from over the years.

MERIT Brewing Company

Custom WordPress + Shopify

Great beer deserves a great digital home! This custom theme allows for the staff of MERIT to quickly update what's currently on tap, and also shop their favourite bottles online for delivery.

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WWII Journal Preservation Project

HTML/CSS/JS

Created with the goal of preserving a special historical document, my grandfather's journal from WWII. My next step is to convert this layout into a WordPress theme to enable others to preserve their family journals, recipes, and documents.

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Animating With Machine Learning for Netflix + NIN

Custom Data Training, Machine Learning

Machine Learnig + Video Art contributions to Netflix's show "Song Exploder" for Trent Reznor/NIN. A special team of incredibly talented people made this entire episode possible.
It is currently the highest rated episode in the series on imdb.com, and as far as I can find, one of, if not the first use of machine learning animations to air on a major streaming service.

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Making a Music Video With a Dot-Matrix Printer.

4 Dot-Matrix Printers/Animation

What would it look like if you ran a video through a dot-matrix printer, then re-assembled it? I had to find out for myself...

CBC Interview