A little splash page experiment ~ ~ my first personal space on the internet in more than a decade. Maybe the beginning of a portfolio site? I don't know! What I do know is that I had fun tinkering with this and that's all that matters. The highlight was... seeing my 7 year old's eyes light up while looking at my screen as I was making this. His eyes were wide open with excitement and curiosity as he repeatedly blurted out: "DAD, WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT IS THAT?!" Life is short. Let's have fun making the internet fun again.show more

excellent middle name

Yesssss 🤝

Hat tip to @j_smith for finding a bug where larger screens wouldn’t allow full scrolling on the page. Should be fixed now ✅ However, I still have permission from @devinjacoviello to continue to melt computers.

Love to see this buddy! Also, miss seeing you around Slc, hope you’re well

Means a lot coming from you 🥺. Also, miss you too. Next time I’m in SLC, let’s be sure we hang out!

Please text me! would love to catch up and see how life has been. You're also welcome at my place any time!

Damn I love that effect on the lockup when you scroll... how did you even come up with that, let alone code it?

No code was used. I had been wanting to play with Unicorn Studio for a while :)

this is so dope👀 also… sick name

Ty ty! Glad you’re diggin’ it

of course👊🏽

ben the king of the rgb shift

Lmaoooooo

Hell yeah 🤘

trying to keep up with the phenomenal work all my former @letsgorally colleagues are putting out into the world 😉. When I can work for you? So you can bestow your wisdom upon me. A career story arc where the former mentor becomes the mentee is the best kind ❤️

Ben, you’re a big part of my career origin story and you’ve shaped so much of how I approach design. You’ll always be a mentor to me, not sure we can flip that script 😹 but I’d jam with you again any day. Any wisdom I have is what you’ve already bestowed. Life is short. Keep having fun. (Needed that reminder today, thanks)

I was so sure you had coded up a storm for such an effect, but all you used was unicorn studio? you wizard

Hahaha 😂. I wish I had coded it up! That would’ve been true wizard status like @narrowd and @wespear. I’m gonna have to settle for no-code tools for now :)

@KarthikBeladev @wespear Did u miss telling us to add chromatic aberration?

@KarthikBeladev @wespear Yes AND adding more grain, morphing, serifs, stamps, and greige :P

@KarthikBeladev @wespear And make performant on my cam book air

@KarthikBeladev @wespear I’m being a hypocrite, but don’t ask me to make this performant Nick 😂

@KarthikBeladev @wespear Just this week I said “Claude, render smoke, make performant” so we don’t have to worry about that shit anymore

@KarthikBeladev @wespear I’m cackling rn

this is super sick. leave twitter and go to threads tho.

Ty! I always forget about threads. Good reminder to check it out more often . 🫡

ooof nice

@ianbach tysm!! 🫶🏼

Very cool!

Ty Ty 🙌🏼

Nice!

Thank you! 🙏

this is dope!

Stoked you dig it! 🙏

This is rad!

Thanks dude! Really appreciate it

Sheesh. This is fresh 🪄

Thank you sir 🫡

I feel like a fish fighting the current when I learn to code. Didn't realize you could build amazing stuff like this without it

Same here! There’s so many tools out there. It’s overwhelming to even pick a thing to tinker with sometimes.

I love this

Thank you so much! 🫶🏼

It’s uplifting to see you’re back at it!

Thank you! 🥺

Yea Unicorn Studio is rad.

Truly is awesome… I need to spend more time with it and Framer in general.

Yea I used it for the hero background thing here a year or so back. Was pretty damn easy. - also on Framer.

Love to see this!

Wow this is sick! Great work Ben!

@coffee_snobb Very kind of you! Thanks for checking it out :)

It’s wild how we spend decades building for others only to realize the best work happens when we’re just "tinkering."

:) something magical happens when the focus is the joy of making vs what the outcome might be.

💯

Love this!

The animations feel incredibly polished and intentional

Tysm! Appreciate that 🫶🏼

That’s dope!

Thanks man! Glad you like it :)

still got it

That means a lot, thank you! Getting older in this industry is an interesting feeling. Especially with the recent explosion of tooling and workflows.

Scrolling interaction is cool, but that name lockup… damn man. That’s beautiful.

Thanks Anthony! Really appreciate that 🫡

Love this.

Ty ty 🙏

Dude, yes! My son is pretty much my art director now, when he is loving something I know I better keep going.

Love hearing this! Young kids have such impeccable taste and creativity 🥺

loooooovely!

Ty!

INSANE

just tryin’ to keep up with y’all at Perplexity 🥵

🔥

🙏🙏

You brought it

Appreciate that, ty!

Love this

So glad it’s resonating with ya! 🙏

super cool and on @framer! 😍

@niumiks @framer Yessss. Mostly Unicorn Studio exported to Framer. However, Framer in general is awesome. I want to build in it more often.

Beautiful work!

tysm!!