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Mend began with a memory: watching a kintsugi master on television, filling the cracks of a broken bowl with gold until the break became the most beautiful part. This assignment brought it back. Mend is a video player shaped by that craft, where the break is not hidden but honoured. Every pause is a break: the tea bowl at its centre parts into shards. Every play is a repair: gold flows back into the seams.
The footage carries the same thought in two chapters. In Break, gold cracks run out of the player's own frame into black coal, as if the damage does not stop at the edge, and slowly gather into a heartbeat. The crack is not an ending; it is where life shows through. In Whole, the coal falls away and the same heartbeat rests in white porcelain, mended in champagne gold, while light passes slowly over it. The scar remains, but it is gold now, and it is still beating.
Kintsugi, where the break becomes the most beautiful part. Beautiful starting point.
What a lovely origin story. Taking kintsugi's idea that the break becomes the most beautiful part and shaping a player around it is genuinely moving. Mend is one of the most thoughtful concepts here. I'd love your thoughts on Geiger if you have a moment ☢
Thank you so much Ammar, that's really kind. Just went through Geiger and left you a note there. The holotape chapters on pause are brilliant!
Saw your note, thank you Annika! Replied over there too. Good luck with Mend 🤍
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For everyone. Every button works with the keyboard and shows a clear focus ring. On a phone, the controls move into two rows and the menus use the whole screen. If your device asks for reduced motion or reduced transparency, the ripple stops and the glass becomes solid.
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Lightline. A video player drawn around one line of of light.
I entered the Video.js skins challenge with a player called Lightline.
One line of light runs it. The line shows where you are in the film. Its color shows what the film is doing.
Two layouts. Cinema leaves the film alone on the screen. Suite sets the tools beside it. An audio lab. Guides over the picture. A timeline you can read. More than 50 languages.
The video is the player playing its own opening.
Go break it: https://frederickdesign.studio/lightline
Then tell me what broke.
One line of light doing all the work, very elegant.
Who wants to come to a picnic with an outdoor movie? I'll bring the video player 🧺🎬
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Too comfy to reach the bulbs? Grab the remote on the picnic table.
You can still use the keyboard like a normal player: Space to play, arrows to seek and change the volume, F for fullscreen.
this is such a fun concept!