Independent thinking. Hands-on making.
I’m John, a founder, product builder, and creative technologist connecting strategy, design, and technology.
Based in Peoria, Illinois Working across disciplines
01 / Selected work
AI Intelligence Platform
OMIKINA turns the global AI arms race into a legible public intelligence system, connecting companies, countries, physical infrastructure, capital, policy, current evidence, and the dependencies beneath modern compute.
Creative Technology
A digital magazine for fashion, beauty, personal style, and visual culture, combining six disclosed AI editorial perspectives with source-linked stories and an expressive visual identity.
Interactive Products
A social network built around chosen connections, newest-first posts, and a real ending. Text and photo sharing with a clear place to stop.
Human-Centered Health Product
A medical-information workspace for finding, following, and revisiting research, regulation, practice updates, and industry news—with the original source always in view.
Human-Centered Health Product
A trauma-informed decision tool that helps turn a high-pressure moment into one safer next step—without streaks, labels, tracking, or forced disclosure.
Music, Identity & Interactive Storytelling
Clarapetra is a cinematic noir-pop musician and visual-music project. The current Pretty Machine era opens inside Luminous Chamber, a full-screen audio-reactive world of moonlight, neon water, spectral architecture, and luminous rain.
Interactive Experiences
A 3D motorcycle game inside Clarapetra's Pretty Machine world. Ride from Montana-inspired dawn to a neon desert city, with an album-length soundtrack and scenery that responds to the music.
Interactive Experiences
A music-driven browser game starring Daddy B, a pink crowned bunny bouncing across a neon stage. Time each jump, chase chrome drops, and collect stickers to an original Clarapetra soundtrack.
Interactive Experiences
A small browser puzzle about a moving lamp, an ordinary chair, and a little creature finding a way across their shadows.
02 / The practice
One connected practice, shaped by 25+ years across technology, healthcare, media, and music.
A clear point of view on the problem, the people, and what is worth building.
Research / Evidence / DirectionThoughtful interfaces and working products, from the first sketch through hands-on development.
UX & UI / Prototyping / DevelopmentDistinct visual worlds that connect identity, moving image, sound, and interaction.
Identity / Film / MusicOmikina, Inc. connects the OMIKINA intelligence platform and Omikina Records, home to Clarapetra. MARGIN is an independent concept prototype.
The story behind the workBuilt together
Alongside independent ventures, a body of healthcare and immersive work built with multidisciplinary teams.
03 / Notes & perspectives
How a specialist agent team helped me design MARGIN: a no-account, trauma-informed support prototype built around agency, privacy, human connection, and one manageable next decision.
How Omikina evolved from a U.S. infrastructure atlas into a global AI intelligence platform with country maps, company profiles, an hourly evidence monitor, and reviewed editorial analysis.
Why the AI race is also a race for chips, data centers, electricity, grids, water, land, equipment, fuel, workers, capital, and public permission—and how OMIKINA makes that system visible.