Miko Journal

Music theory for visual learners.

Pause, reflect, and discover calm.

Hot off the press, released January 2018!

Extra extra!

I’m excited to announce Sketchpad 4.0!

I was recently asked to create artwork for the C.A.R.D.S.

Sketchpad v3.7 has arrived, February 2015!

I recently had the pleasure of working on Google’s Made with Code initiative with the Red & Co. creative studio and Mash, a group of developers located in Portland Oregon.

Sketchpad has been used in applications from scientific machine learning, to kids drawing, but we haven’t had much chance to focus on any commercial aspects.

Sketchpad 3 is available in the Chrome Webstore (for free), combining WebGL effects with vector editing, and lots of HTML5 goodness!

Take photos with your webcam: mix and match combinations of filters to come up with your own unique effects.

UPDATE: Read about Sketchpad 3.0 Where Sketchpad 2.0 introduced non destructive vector + bitmap editing on the web.

UPDATE: Read about Sketchpad 3.0 Introducing a new way to create graphics online.

I recently had the honor to be part of a new series called Presets on Google Developer Live hosted by Paul Irish, and lovingly put together by Louis Grey, Phoebe Peronto amongst other Googlers.

It’s time to start going out of my comfort zone and pursuing music a bit more!

Sketch Mobile is a drawing app build for mobile browsers; taking advantage of technologies such as multi touch, the accelerometer, and the gyroscope; providing a fun & novel environment to express yourself in colorful wa...

The latest rendition of the Color Picker “Classic”, themed after Photoshop, GIMP, and other image editors, there are no frills here, it’s a basic Hue, Saturation, Luminance, and Alpha (HSVA) color selector.

MIDI.js (on github) ties together, and builds upon frameworks that bring MIDI generation to the browser.

Learn how to play piano songs by watching notes fall towards the keyboard as color blocks; similar to how Guitar Hero works, but with a real instrument.

Color Piano Theory is now available on the Chrome Webstore.

Many times, when researching a larger project, I make smaller demos to break up my workflow and keep things fresh.

Exciting news on ColRD.com!

I’m thrilled to see Portland Ketchup in the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI).

Color Sphere was one of my 1st HTML5 projects, way back in 2007.

Last month, I posted about the possibility of creating high resolution and print ready graphics in .

One of my favorite posts in the last few years was Bitwise Gems in AS3 by Polygonal Labs , an article inspired by Bitwise Operations in C on Gamedev .

Tonight, on ColRD, we released the latest rendition of Palette Creator, along with our newest addition; the Gradient Creator!

Announcing the release of color blindness daltonization + simulation bookmarklets; daltonize.appspot.com The Chrome Daltonize extension is faster in many cases, and uses less bandwidth than the bookmarklet, highly recomm...

I worked on a future release of BG a few months back, and am excited to share some screenshots!

At Portlandia Foods we’re excited to offer our customers the chance to have their photograph on Portland Ketchup bottles!

ColRD is a new website to help you find Colors, Palettes, Gradients and Patterns.

Last weekend I got a chance to mess around with Mr.

UPDATE: Renamed to Image DNA and released as a Chrome Extension, read more.

The past four years (2007 2011) much of my energy and capital has been focused into building the Mugtug graphics suite; Sketchpad, Darkroom on the Wayback Machine, and Lightbox.

It’s been an exciting year at Portlandia Foods.

The standard chart (a great resource provided by Mozilla) describing the effects of the globalCompositeOperation is incomplete, as it leaves us to extrapolate how 99% of the color spectrum, and multiple levels of opacity...

HTML5 Rocks is a website that helps inspire developers and teach how to implement those shiny new HTML5 features in real world examples.

Typography support between browsers has a history of being spotty.

UPDATE: There is a more recent post on Color Piano.

Background Generator (BG) provides the ability to edit the background of any website in real time!

The Unicode Profiling Project was designed to gather statistics on unicode support across systems.

UPDATE: This project has been cancelled.

JS1k is challenge presented by Peter van der Zee to design the most creative use out of 1kb of Javascript.

UPDATE: Read about Sketchpad 3.0 Sketchpad is a free application utilizing to allow anyone with a web connection and a recent copy of Safari, Firefox, Opera, or Chrome the ability to create beautiful drawings.

Welcome to the preview of Sketchpad.

\[update\] Read about Color Piano Theory.I’ve been working on this widget a long time, on and off, basically whenever I’ve got a vacation.

I’ve prepared a new DHTML plugin, licencened under Creative Commons.

Ever wonder what a computer programmer does while on vacation?

Do you like ColorJack Sphere?

I finally got all the ColorJack code into a little widget for your websites!