Ian Harmon

Welcome

Hi, I’m Ian. I like photography, code, and creating things.

On this site are many of the galleries, projects, and miscellany I’ve made over the years. I’ve tried to keep it simple, because I miss the old Web.

Have a look around! There’s a lot, but I’ve bolded the things I think are more interesting.

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Places

• Guatemala — Vibrant colors, colonial architecture, and volcanoes. (2017)
• Belize — Mayan ruins and sunny islands. (2017)
• Washington DC — Gardens and galleries. (2016)
• Outer Banks, NC — So much sand. (2016)
• Bermuda — Scenes from an island paradise. (2014)
• Shenandoah — Virginian mountains and trails. (2013–16)
• NYC — Pillars of glass and concrete. (2014)
• Richmond — Home sweet home. (2013–16)
• Knoxville — Wanderings during my college years. (2010–11)
• Southern Elsewhere — Various locations in the South. (2009–16)

Scenes

• Interiors — A natural light obsession. (2010–16)
• Exteriors — Bricks and glass, concrete and steel. (2009–16)
• Outside — Nature… or sometimes closer to nature-ish. (2009–16)
• Window Seat — I'm the guy who's always glued to the window and ends the flight with a sore neck. (2009–17)
• Space — Beginner astrophotography from cold nights, and scenes from the Green Bank Observatory. (2014–16)
• Urban Exploration — Recklessness and ruin. (2009–12)
• The Dark — Stuff from when I take hiatuses and go wandering. (2009–14)

Sports

• Football — University of Tennessee football. (2010–11)
• Basketball — University of Tennessee men’s/women’s basketball. (2010–11)
• Other Sports — Other sports at UT. (2010–11)

Other

• Abstract — Patterns and color worship. (2009–13)
• Food — My other hobby. I can bake some mean breads and pizzas. (2009–11)
• Miscellany — I’m terrible at hierarchies. (2009–14)

Interactive HTML5

Tools and toys you can play with in your web browser. Some mobile and older browsers may not work.

• Tartan Generator — Randomly generates tartan patterns which can be downloaded as wallpapers. (2016)
• Modular Modifier (HTML5) — A procedural/glitch editor that lets you apply effects to GIFs and pictures in various orders and download the results. (2016)
• Triangle Background Generator — Generates colorful triangular patterns which can be downloaded as wallpapers. (2015)
• Boxer — A box image/template creator. If you’ve seen 3x3/taste-rate thread on forums, this is for that kind of thing. (2015)
• Party Time — Takes images and makes trippy palette-cycling GIFs. Mostly superseded by Modular Modifier. (2014)
• Visualizer — A spectrum visualizer for the current audio input. (2014)

Single-Serving HTML5

Simple audiovisual amusements for your web browser. Some mobile and older browsers may not work.

• ASCII Things — Various effects done in ASCII. (2016)
• The Life of Whoever — Make your own Kanye album cover. (2016)
• Migraine — (Photosensitive warning? Harsh black/white lines, distorts your vision.) Recreation of a picture depicting what some migraines are like. (2015)
• A Steam Odyssey — Praise be unto Gaben. (2014)
• Instant Degauss — The best part about owning a CRT monitor, now with no wait to recharge. (2014)
• everything is terrible — We all have those days. (2013)
• Blue Plate Simulator — A Tribes: Ascend addiction distilled into one button. Click away and rack up medals. (2012)

Media/Interactive

Downloadable audiovisual tools.

• Pixel Exploder — Draws an image’s pixels as 3D cubes and explodes them outward based on their brightness. (2014)
• JPG Glitcher — A script that takes a JPG and generates a number of glitched variations, optionally combining them into an animated GIF. (2014)
• MP3 to YouTube — A script that creates an MP4 file suitable for YouTube uploading from an MP3, automatically making the album art into a background. (2013)

Knowledge/Data

Computer projects designed to analyze.

• Lightroom Geotag Timelapser — A Processing script to show geotags on a map over time. Exports frames so you can create a GIF timelapse of the places you've been. (2016)
• Hash Calculator — A simple SHA-1 hash calculator. (2015)

Gaming

Games, and projects created for them and their communities.

• terrible — A Cards Against Humanity style game for a single room of users. (2013)
• Battlefield 1942 Server Status Checker — A small Windows app that lets you quickly check the status of a favorite Battlefield 1942 server. (2013)

Deprecated/Ancient

Projects that have been superseded by others, those that may no longer work, and some that are just plain outdated.

• ASCII-fy — Converts GIFs and images to ASCII art. Superseded by Modular Modifier. (2015)
• Modular Modifier (old) — A Processing script that allows you to chain together glitch effects. I recommend the HTML5 version above, instead. (2014)
• GIF Glitcher — Glitches GIF files by modifying each frame with various effects. Mostly superseded by Modular Modifier. (2014)
• GIF Slit-Scanner — Applies a slit-scan effect to GIFs, which produces effects like broken VHS tapes or videos of propellers. Superseded by Modular Modifier. (2014)
• Intensifying Intensifier — Takes any image and makes a shaking GIF out of it, optionally with subtitles. Mostly superseded by Modular Modifier. (2014)
• Trippy Webcam — (Photosensitive warning? Quickly cycles through bright colors.) Makes your webcam look trippy. The code should still work, but the webcam API won't run on non-HTTPS URLs, so it won't work on this site. (2014)
• Traffic Time Lapse Helper — Makes creating time lapses of traffic in Google Maps easy. Probably needs a small amount of work to get running. (2013)
• Historical Tax Calculator — An in-browser comparison of USA federal income tax rates over time. Lacks context, but the change in base rates is interesting. (2013)
• Steam Trading Card Set Pricer — Created overviews of Steam trading card prices. Extremely outdated, likely does not work any more. (2013)

Generative

Colorful pictures and GIFs generated via tools I created.

• Every Color — Images containing every color of their RGB color space exactly once. (2014–17)
• Generative ANSI — Modern images reduced into terminal characters. (2014)
• Glitch/Trippy GIFs — Weird and occasionally broken animations. (2014–16)