tactile widgets

A motion study of six tactile widgets on a 12-second loop that plays by itself, each one a small thing you could hold. A record spins on a turntable under a fixed light sheen while the tonearm rides the groove. A split-flap departures board flips letter by letter from Porto and Coimbra to Coimbra and Braga, platforms on yellow flaps, and back. Raindrops sit on a window and run down it over the blurred lights of the city behind, with Almaty at 6°. A tea timer's dial winds to five minutes with an overshoot, runs down under its pointer and shakes as it rings: tea is ready. A receipt printer hums while a bakery receipt comes out line by line, the day's total counts up, and later the receipt is torn off and falls away. A voice recorder's backlit VU meter follows a voice while REC blinks and the timer runs. No images: HTML, CSS, SVG and canvas, Inter and IBM Plex Mono, a 1080 × 1080 stage that scales to fit any window, and a frame-exact recorder (?rec and window.__render).