// SAM: Software Automatic Mouth
A browser replica of SAM, the 1982 Commodore 64 text-to-speech program. Type something, tune pitch, speed, mouth and throat, and it reads it back in that unmistakable cracked robot voice. Built on a vanilla JS port of the original engine.
// Information Appliances
Every function a device can perform is something your brain has to hold open as a possibility.
A short one about Jef Raskin, the Canon Cat, and why a device that only does one thing asks less of you than one that does everything.
Also: a language with only one variable, a phone that used to do one thing at a time, and the iPod again.
// Are You an Artist?
Two different strangers asked me the same question. I wasn’t ready for it either time.
A post about identity, creative practice, and the masks we wear to avoid answering things honestly.
Also: Supersonic festival, Halima Cassell’s ceramics, and a coffee shop conversation I’m glad I had.
I'd love to tell you more.