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Hello
I am a photographer and digital product designer in New York City.
My email address is justin.ouellette@gmail.com
This is a site of things I've made.
(except this photo by Noah Kalina)
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Muxtape
The concept was simple: upload 12 songs, pick a color, share a page of music with your friends. Nearly 100,000 users made mixes in the first month and Muxtape quickly drew the attention of the RIAA, who ultimately shut the site down after 6 months. Wired called it one of the “Most Heart-breaking Deaths” of 2008. Khoi Vinh said “its single-tasking posture may yet turn out to be as iconic as the original Google home page.” The entire saga of lawyers and record labels can be read in long form here.
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Chromogenic
Photographs from around the world and my backyard. 100% film.
Since 2003, images from chromogenic.net have found their way into Getty’s Reportage collection, two collections from ƒStop, album art, book covers, magazine ads, government propaganda, and more.
chromogenic.net
on flickr – chromogenic
for licensing – gettyimages.com
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Muxtape II
Muxtape was rewritten from scratch and relaunched in 2009 as an opt-in platform for bands and a cleaner, saner alternative to MySpace. Over a thousand bands are using the service on an invite-only basis, with a full rollout set for 2010.
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Screen Caps
A blog exploring movies as photography. Single frames displayed in high resolution without comment.
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A Modern Promise
For their followup to the acclaimed Striking in 2008, Francis and the Lights wanted to make A Modern Promise available on the internet in a substantial way, complimenting its simultaneous release on 12” vinyl.
In addition to promoting the physical product, the site is in fact the album, with every song available to stream and featuring an epic 35mm music video in HD.
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Normative
Online presence and storefront for The Normative Music Company, an independent Brooklyn record label whose unique mission it is to help musicians establish themselves as independent corporations.
Site no longer available :(
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Ambient Recordings
An audio blog featuring field recordings made in the New York area. Also available as an infrequent 24-bit mailing.
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IHKH
I Hardly Know Her is a free, minimalist Flickr viewer. After a simple authorization step, photographers are able to present their existing work without the contextual burden of Flickr's user interface and branding. The default view shows metadata only on mouse hover, with a “large” mode also available that uses almost no text at all.
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How Is Obama Doing?
In the final months leading up to the 2008 presidential election, poll-checking became an increasingly frequent habit for American voters and world observers alike. This site served to distill all the political anxiety of the day into the single question on everyone’s mind, and answer it simply.
Post-election, the site serves as a tracker of Obama's favorability rating as reported by the RCP aggregate “poll of polls.”
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David Byrne Poster
A special collaboration with Brendan Griffiths for Creative Time, which presented David Byrne’s Playing The Building installation at the Battery Maritime Building in 2008. For the piece, an organ is modified to transmit pneumatic pulses to remote activators that strike or otherwise cause parts of the building’s infrastructure to oscillate musically. Visitors are encouraged to try their hand at playing the instrument.
I took the photo for the poster, which was offered for sale at the show’s opening.
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The End