Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-16
Colin's Cortex, a Portfolio That Plays Like an Arcade Cabinet
Colin Mullins's retro-arcade portfolio combines HCI research, academic papers, films, cartoons, photography, and creative experiments.
Why it surfacedThe site turns a conventional portfolio into a playable interface: visitors pick between a penguin and a dapper fox, browse papers through “the librarian,” and can transmit their score with a message. Its playful left-brain/right-brain conceit comes with its own disclaimer, while the underlying work spans AI instant cameras, arcade games, cybersecurity communications, film, and photography.
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The 240-Material Organ
August 16’s newborn domains include a 240-material perfume organ, a repeatedly saved JPEG cat, a ski tracker designed by a 15-year-old, and a searchable page claiming to contain 148,303 prescription records.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-16 Domain Arrivals issue.