Holland Blumer

@hollandblumer.bsky.social

Channeling pre-internet designs with modern creative tools. Creative Coding NYC (CCNYC) organizer

I've recently become an organizer with Creative Coding NYC (CCNYC) and had a great time helping out with the showcase hosted at Hex House on 6/9. A huge thank you to everyone who attended, shared their work, and helped make the event possible!!!

Another project I worked on was inspired by water marbling. I recreated the effect by replacing the traditional comb with live hand movements tracked using MediaPipe and the MANO hand model. A FastAPI backend running on Render handles the MANO fitting, returning a fitted 3D hand to the browser.

Reflecting on the talk I gave with Brooklyn Web Workers about channeling pre-internet 60s/70s designs with modern creative tools, I built Poster BluePrint at the Recurse Center, combining computer vision techniques like SIFT and edge detection with Gemini 2.5 Flash to analyze uploaded posters.