loren

@ribo.zone

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multicellular organism 🧫 https://ribo.zone

grid of twelve boxes with various striped borders
grid of nine boxes with floral or woven pixel art borders
notepad++ screenshot of an html file where each letter is wrapped in a <span> with inline css
wooden box over a hole (?) in the dirt with the word "Danger" spray painted on each side
cardboard box on the ground outside. the biohazard warning printed on the side has been scribbled out with marker, and written next to it is the word "free"
88x31 pixel buttons in the style of broken image icons from firefox, netscape, + chrome broswers
grid of nine boxes styled like various games: three touhou, three final fantasy 6, yugioh, drawn to life, and mega man x
Intractable Quaker Kocakina fidelis
the talented mr. ripley DVD with a sticker that says "hank's pic" and has a little picture of hank on it
mobile suit gundam: char's counterattack DVD in my hand
One of dump.fm's prominent chatters, a film student, frequently complains about "net artists," as in "I don't like it when net artists..." What does he think a net artist is, exactly? Here are some possibilities for what a net artist might be: 1. Someone with a BFA or MFA in net art (future nonexistent degrees) 2. Someone who self-consciously makes art involving web-based technology or protocols 3. Someone with a degree in studio art who posts self-identified artwork that can be found/indexed by search engines 4. Someone with no art degree who posts self-identified artwork etc 5. Someone with or without an art degree who posts any kind of visual expression, leaving it for others to identify it as art 6. Someone with/without an art degree who uses the internet for performance or agitprop, either self-identified or other-identified as art 7. Someone with/without an art degree who posts any kind of visual expression or does anything performative online, without caring whether it is called art or not 8. A shamanic presence who is doing something disturbing and art-like on the internet 9. Someone who has had online expression covered by a prominent "art and technology" website 10. Someone who works primarily offline, e.g. a painter showing in galleries, who creates a digital presence through exhaustive documentation 11. Someone who spends 20 hours a day in the social media blog-mills and believes this is a new kind of art 12. Someone in the social media blog-mills who finds collective or group validation of an art-like activity that may or may not be institutionally identified as art 13. A film or video student whose own personal greatness has yet to be recognized by any "art and technology" website
grid of nine boxes in a variety of styles including butterflies, whales, horses, shock absorbers, and note paper
grid of nine boxes with CSS to style them like metroid, puyo puyo, sonic battle, kirby's adventure, digimon, and hamtaro
grid of 9 boxes in different pixel art styles: pokemon, castelvania, cave story, yume nikki, fire emblem, earthbound, and runescape. each box contains the CSS to apply that style
view from a car of a mountain peak in the rockies all covered in snow above the treeline
Detritus: the Manifesto - in nature, detritus is dead plant and animal matter that makes new life possible. The very bottom of the food chain, detritus is the rotting leaves in the forest, the silt on the bottom of the pond, the thick dark mud in the salt marsh. It sticks to your shoes, it smells, but someday it will be food for something else, and that something will be food in turn, on and on up the food chain until you pick it up in the supermarket and put it in your mouth. Our society spends a lot of time telling us that there is some brand new, fresh cultural produce, generated from thin air and sunshine, slick and clean. They package it with pretty plastic & ribbons and then feed it to us. A lot gets thrown away: the ribbons, the wrapping; culture becomes garbage, or it dies, and rots behind the refrigerator. But the new fluffy shiny stuff still gets churned out, and it gets forced between our teeth. And we are told to swallow it. We will not swallow. We will chew, and then spit. We will play with our food, and create something new and interesting from it.
screenshot of a webpage with an illustrated banner and placeholder text that says: idk what to call this project yet hello it's me ribo.zone. let's make some webpages and say things about them jam #01: theme lorem ipsum lorem ipsum example.com example2.com
mid 2023
a screenshot of some CSS i wrote to position and resize an element in units of viewport width and viewport height, with different calculations for wide and narrow aspect ratios
motion blurred bird flapping splashing etc over some water. ice in the background, bare branches in foreground. it's cold
bing search result for great-site.net. everything but the top result looks like a phishing attempt, to me
early draft of my xenogears minisite. the page has a screenshot from the game where chu-chu says "uh hmm... chu-chu's not a good girl. i'm in that dangerous age right now."
painting of a guy with a really big hat, with his right hand lifted up
old media recs page
three turkeys in the woods. two have their heads lifted up, lit by the afternoon sun
squirrel running across a snow-covered power line (with motion blur). everything else is snow-covered too
screenshot of the games page with a two column layout and foggy pylon background. the wider column has sections on each game (cell culture, eukaryote story, computer user maker) and the narrower column has links elsewhere
gallery of insect photos i took from 2017 to 2023, sortable and filterable by order (in the screenshot, hymenoptera is selected so all the visible photos are of bees)
screenshot of a long regular expression for web-related terms and phrases like personal website, favorite blog, indieweb, weird web, digital garden, 88x31, "love this website", and variations of these
a four panel comic drawn with thick marker on a crumpled sticky note placed in a pot full of soil. the first panel has a little stick figure and the words "what the fuck" taking up most of the panel. the other three panels are blank, because i gave up
website with a pastel plaid background and wordart-style banner at the top. "since december 4, 1995. last updated on may 27, 2025" each section is styled a little differently. there are links to the japanese version of the site, the MISAO project (which "aims to make much use of images taken all over the world for searching and tracking astronomical remarkable objects"), automatic PAD Drawer software, and minor planet Seiicyoshida (named after the webmaster). the last section has a photo of yoshida, with the following text: "The "Tahdet ja avaruus -magazine" (Stars and Space, Finland) kindly made an interview and pubslished an article to introduce me in 2017 February."
my qubeley
steam screenshot. my mostly recently played game is final fantasy xiv, with 16.6 hours played in the last two weeks and 2000.1 hours total
screenshot of the talk page for pope leo xiv on simple english wikipedia. there is a single entry, which just says "New popee"
a groundhog standing up and looking at the camera
screenshot of a godot debug window, featuring a low-poly 3D scene with bad lighting. there's a single mushroom in front of some walls with a glass block texture and a cloudy purple sky
a crow (maybe a raven) crouched on a lightpost, with two worms clamped in its beak
screenshot from inaturalist: photo of a tiny rat facing away from the camera, down in a wet spot between some subway tracks. it is labeled "Brown Rat" and "RG" (research grade)
Welcome to the Museum of ZZT, a site dedicated to the preservation and curation of the many games and worlds created with ZZT. ZZT is a text-mode game from 1991 created by Tim Sweeney of Epic Games. ZZT has its own editor and scripting language which offers what may still be an unmatched level of accessibility to beginning game developers. A significant number of ZZT worlds were created by authors in their early teenage years, with some being made by children under 10. ZZT's simple ZZT-OOP scripting language gave many a friendly introduction to programming. The goal of the Museum of ZZT site is to collect these worlds, offer discussions into them and the community built around them, and keep them safely preserved. It is the hope of the Museum that the generally unknown works of ZZT community can be easily discovered and that their importance can be recognized.
inaturalist screenshot. a list of four species: neighborly mining bee, unequal cellophane bee, modest masked bee, and confusing furrow bee
hormiguita banana premium bananas product of ecuador the sticker features flik, the ant protagonist of the 1998 disney/pixar film A Bug's Life, holding a bunch of bananas. his exoskeleton is yellow instead of blue, maybe to match the bananas or maybe to avoid copyright infringement
the logo at the top of the page is a bowl of fruit and a toucan. the menu includes a search bar, language selection, and links to top stickers, new stickers, an about page, guestbook, FAQ, and statistics, among other things. the main content of the page is a grid of fruit sticker images, labeled by fruit and country of origin
a simple webpage titled: Key to Benthic Species (includes so far 1306 species) navigation links: "How to use", "by text", "by illustrations" (selected), "PDF", and "Key to Planktonic Species" the majority of the page is made up of illustrations of each kind of shape that a foram can take, broken up into categories. the visitor can select one shape from each category to identify species with those characteristics. overall: coiled, elongate, globose, ovate, tubular, round+flat, etc wall material: agglutinated, porcelaneous, hyaline, microgranular, etc chamber arrangement: single, tub. enrolled, uniserial, biserial, etc chamber form: spherical-globular, pyriform oval convex, etc position of the primary aperture: terminal, umbilical, etc aperture form: round oval-reniform, arcuate lunear-arch, etc sutures, keel: depressed, raised, straight, curved
the main section, about me, says the following: "My name is Lucía (she/her) and I am a Brussels based artist, musician and computer scientist. My current interests are handmade electronics instruments, hosting intimate music rituals, and designing webpages. You can find more about my work in my portfolio or by discovering the links this website's garden." the site is decorated with 1-bit pixel art flowers.
screenshot of an email from itch.io support: Hello You now have CSS enabled on your account. You can find the CSS editors on the theme editors of games, your profile, and jams.
screenshot of a table from wikipedia called "brown colors" where the top two are definitely red
the site's homepage features a large photo of a black phoebe and the text "over 300 species recorded!" the other sections are recent photos, recent sightings (which includes species, date, and location info), and recent posts (which includes titles such as "herons of america" and "birds of snaefellsnes")
the site navigation is a list of video games to explore. in this screenshot, games from the nintendo 64, playstation 2, and xbox are visible, with katamari damacy selected. a secondary navigation window lists levels from the game. "make corona borealis" is selected, so the rest of the page shows the map for this level, a low-poly town which features a column of people standing on each other's heads and shoulders to be as tall as the giraffe they're standing next to
an inch and a half model zaku from mobile suit gundam standing in front of some lantana flowers
a simple list of links over a covered wagon background. "Celebrating Carl Griffith's 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter", "Download Carl's Brochure", "How to Get Carl's Starter", "How to Revive Your Start", "Who Are We?", "About Carl", "Contact Us", "Photos and Illustrated Instructions & Recipes", and "1847 OT Sourdough FAQ". under the links, "Over 80,000 starts distributed from this web site since 2000"
a grid of portals to virtual worlds. each scene is made up of retro pixel art and labeled with a name. in the top row: Chun-Li, Catherine, Blue Mary, Shiki and Cammy
a dark-eyed junco (small, round bird that's mostly grey with a white belly) perched on a tree branch
another regular expression screenshot. new additions: poetic web, weird web, smol web, retro web, old web, weeknotes, web revival, webring, smol.pub, fansite, and fanlisting
stickers!! characters and motifs are from gundam and dunbine. i'm holding them up to my window so the sparkles in the kamille sticker reflect the sunlight. the stickers are gorgeous and, again, i love them
text on the page reads: "The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities. To get started with the zine archive try browsing through the collections or searching for specific terms."
you select the scale or chord and the longest chime length, then the calculator outputs a list of intervals and lengths. the page has a playful aesthetic: comic sans font, gifs of flowers and wind chimes, a textured background on the main section, and clouds in the background
text at the top of the page reads: "Welcome to here website. Step inside! There is no danger, no danger at all. Anyway yeah, would you help me appreciate the consequences of my experiments...? (involves fruits)". site navigation is a taxonomy of sounds, creatures, locations, and characters. the background image is a forest.
list of terms, formatted as a regular expression: websurfing, personal web, personal site, digital garden, indieweb, neocities, nekoweb, geocities, bearblog, small web, open web, webring, slow web, 88x31
three little shrimps on a big plate
the main page of the site features an image of someone standing in front of a tree, arms outstretched. the trunk of the tree is much wider than the person's wingspan. below the image is the following text: "Our State is blessed with a rich diversity of plants, animals, forests, and historic resources. We all share a concern for preserving this cultural landscape, the things that give our state its unique character. Trees are symbolic of our relationship with nature, a touchstone to the past and future." the site's navigation includes champion trees, historic trees, and tree lists sorted by species, town, height, and trunk size.