Blubber Room
Digital products atelier
About
Blubber Room is a product development studio based in Concord, CA. We currently are exploring the possibilities of AI user experience and the use of AI in creating products.
Contact
Say hello: hello[at]blubberroom.com
Projects
all →FlightCodes
A game for learning IATA airport codes — endless drills in both directions, with spaced repetition that brings back the ones you miss.
Published: 7/26/2026
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Carrion
An interactive field model of how turkey vultures find the dead — carcass decay, a scent plume carried on the wind, and the follow-the-leader cascade that crowds a carcass.
Published: 7/25/2026
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Log & Line
Agent-native, lightweight web analytics. Cookieless by default, and cost scales with events rather than sites — an idle project costs nothing.
Published: 7/13/2026
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Offside
A 3D, browser-based trainer that teaches soccer's offside rule by letting you make the linesman's call yourself, stage by stage.
Published: 7/9/2026
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Mat Calculator
A tool for laying out and calculating measurements for picture frame mat board cutting.
Published: 5/19/2025
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Timer Thingy
A thingy you can use to time multiple iterations of something.
Published: 5/19/2025
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Helmet Inside
Advocacy campaign to improve visibility of cyclists in communities.
Published: Coming Soon
LinkBookmarklet Link Maker
A simple tool to make it easy to add bookmarklet code to your browser.
Published: 8/27/2024
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BART Ridership
Visualization of BART ridership data for a collective visualization project.
Published: 2013
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Hubway Bike Share Race
Visualization of bike share usage data for the Hubway Data Visualization Challenge.
Published: 2012
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Inspiration
“But to learn all about these recondite matters, your best way is at once to descend into the blubber-room, and have a long talk with its inmates. This place has previously been mentioned as the receptacle for the blanket-pieces, when stript and hoisted from the whale. When the proper time arrives for cutting up its contents, this apartment is a scene of terror to all tyros, especially by night. On one side, lit by a dull lantern, a space has been left clear for the workmen. They generally go in pairs,—a pike-and-gaffman and a spade-man. The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate’s boarding-weapon of the same name. The gaff is something like a boat-hook. With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about. Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces. This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan’s feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge. If he cuts off one of his own toes, or one of his assistants’, would you be very much astonished? Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.” [1]