Baruch Hashem, blessed is the name ב״ה

Weird, pretty things.

The fun projects live here. Some blink and spin. Some make sounds. Approach them as art.

  1. pale ribbon strokes loop across a deep plum field, one corner of the Steve Chab signature blown up until it fills the screen

    SVG, animated in JavaScript

    Make the Logo Bigger

    My hand-drawn logo, animated in three layers and synced to my boom bap beats. Zoom way in and nod your head.

  2. the entry "fuzzy matching" set large in slab type over its own ghost, with the definition "bigfoot is blurry" underneath

    A dictionary that keeps growing

    Atextual

    A dictionary of fake band names and song titles, hundreds of entries deep. Styled after the screensaver that teaches you words while you wait.

  3. navy plaid tipped onto the diagonal, its red and green bands broken into running dashes, the Carnegie Mellon tartan redrawn in flat lines

    SVG line art, a tartan haze

    Plaid to the Bone

    Carnegie Mellon's intricate tartan, redrawn with simple, animated lines. Threads run like water. Weave swells in waves.

  4. dozens of overlapping circles over black, each one a rainbow-banded scrap of the same photograph

    CSS and JavaScript, no libraries

    Larvascript

    My art spins, blinks, zooms, and eats itself in raw CSS and JavaScript. No libraries, just nauseating visuals.

  5. two photographs side by side. Inside the pot, a breadboard and taped solenoids run on red and blue wire; onstage, the lidded pot sits wired to a grid controller and a laptop on a folding table.

    Motors, solenoids, and an Arduino

    The Robotic Cooking Pot

    For a sound design course at CMU, my team wired motors and solenoids inside a cooking pot and let an Arduino trigger them as percussion. It sat alone onstage and performed rhythms I composed. Hear the live pot performance on SoundCloud.

  6. Two players in black and white, framed tight. One sings into the microphone, the other looks out from behind the drums beside a cymbal.

    A band, on record and onstage

    The Music

    I front Steve Chab Band. Weird, pretty music. Unusual riffs and rhythms. Poetic lyrics. Visit stevechab.band for shows and words, or hear the music on Bandcamp.

  7. The corner of a hand-painted chapbook on grass. Gold paint stamped over salmon card, with steve chab band inked in dark type over the paint.

    Songs bound as an oversized book

    The Chapbook

    The songs began as poems, so I bound them in an oversized lyric book. Paint stamped by hand on salmon covers. No two alike. Read the chapbook online or order a hand-painted copy on Bandcamp.