What happens after the portrait?
An animated extension of After the Portrait, my submission to the Recraft × Contra Archive Style Challenge.
Bronzino’s young man has always struck me as confident, slightly arrogant and unafraid of being seen. I imagined him stepping out of his formal portrait and into an evening of poetry, sharing, drinking and dancing with the boys—five centuries later.
This video adds movement to that world, keeping the painted surfaces, intimate atmosphere and blue glow of contemporary life.
Take a look at the full series and the idea behind it in my original submission:
https://on.contra.com/cWPLzJ
Full series · Public Recraft project:
https://www.recraft.ai/project/b4b22f7b-d729-4c96-911e-88676cd6df81
Try the custom Style · Bronzino After Hours:
https://www.recraft.ai/styles/0b506147-a36a-470c-b9f1-e0139cf88c45
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Rummaging through The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s archive, I came across the titular young aristocrat in Portrait of a Young Man by Agnolo Bronzino, his severe yet elegant stare inviting me to this week’s poetry club with the boys. I used Recraft to reimagine the painting’s circumstances, following the evening’s event from the face mask and first martini to the final whiskey before the rideshare arrives—with discussion of Renaissance poetry in between. Bronzino’s structural yet performative style remains, but the blue glow of the modern world intrudes, reshaping his subjects’ social atmosphere and interactions. It’s as if these are the portraits of the night that the young man chose to share with his followers.
Full series · Public Recraft project:
https://www.recraft.ai/project/b4b22f7b-d729-4c96-911e-88676cd6df81
Try the custom Style · Bronzino After Hours:
https://www.recraft.ai/styles/0b506147-a36a-470c-b9f1-e0139cf88c45
Archival reference:
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano), Portrait of a Young Man, 1530s. Oil on wood.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929.
Public Domain.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435802
Social post:
https://lnkd.in/p/djKgcRaA
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AMDA_ Visual Operating System for Layer-2 AI
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Most barbershop websites look exactly the same: dark wood, vintage filters, and generic templates. For the @Base44 #GiveItAGlow challenge, I wanted to completely destroy that baseline.
Introducing the digital flagship for Moscow Barbería (Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina).
📖 THE ORIGIN STORY: WHY MOSCOW?
Moscow Barbería is a real-world shop in my local town of Villa Carlos Paz with a stellar reputation (4.5 stars, 150+ reviews). But like many local businesses, their digital presence didn't reach its full potential.
I selected them for this challenge to prove a point: local businesses do not need to settle for boring, standard templates. They deserve high-concept, editorial digital flagships that treat their technical grooming craft like pure industrial design.
Instead of nostalgia, we built a "Clinical Tech Lab." The aesthetic merges 90s street-punk with high-end editorial brutalism.
🌐 1. THE PRODUCT (UI/UX)
Built entirely on Base44, the site uses a strict 1px hairline wireframe. Pure off-white (#F4F4F0) and off-black. Zero drop-shadows. Zero rounded corners. I imported custom typography—pairing an editorial serif (Season Mix) with a raw monospace font (Season Sans) to format the UI like a printed spec-sheet. We even coded a custom JavaScript scissors-cursor and a borderless, auto-scrolling architectural carousel.
📸 2. THE VISUAL SYSTEM & AI IMAGERY
To completely own the visual narrative, I custom-designed the entire photographic universe from scratch. Using advanced image-to-image fusion from their actual clients and physical location, I generated and curated a cohesive visual system of 15 high-fashion hair-art portraits and sterile architectural interior shots. Every visual asset was engineered to align strictly with 2026 global design trends. To push the interactivity further, I animated select grid portraits into seamless, slow-motion "living cinemagraphs," breaking the illusion of a static website.
⚙️ 3. THE AUTOMATION
To optimize booking uptime, I built a smart WhatsApp automation flow. Instead of a generic calendar, the frontend JS enforces real business hours. When submitted, it dynamically compiles the form into a raw, URL-encoded tech-string and routes it directly to the barber's WhatsApp for instant, frictionless booking.
🎥 4. THE STORY (BEFORE & AFTER)
Watch the attached video to see how we transformed the standard, generic layout into a brutalist, interactive editorial experience using Base44's AI engine.
Check out the live site here: https://moscow-barbershop.base44.app/
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