Hero Lab II

Ten ways text and footage become one substance — through time, matter, depth, and the language of film. Live, on your real footage. Scroll. Tell me which one is the homepage.

Stein Retzlaff · 10 Treatments · v2
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01 · Time
Slit-Scan Name
Each slice of your name shows a different moment — left is seconds ago, right is now. Your name as a strip of film.
Live
02 · Time
The Edit Drives the Type
The footage's hard cuts are detected live — every cut snaps the type to a new weight with a frame of chromatic split. Cut to the edit.
Live cut detection
Stein Retzlaff
03 · Matter
The Footage Pushes the Letters
Motion inside the video exerts force on the type — busy frames scatter the letters, calm frames let them settle. One shared field.
Live motion field
04 · Matter
Liquid-Chrome Name
Molten metal letters that carry the footage like reflection on mercury — a specular sweep travels the surface, the edges drip.
Live
05 · Matter
Freeze · Thaw
Your name freezes into frost crystals creeping across the glass, holds, then thaws and runs. Your world writes your name.
Live
06 · Generation
The Film Is Built From Your Name
The entire moving image is rendered from thousands of tiny repeated “Stein Retzlaff.” It plays as film — but it’s made of your signature.
Live
07 · Generation
Datamosh Lock-In
Opens as typographic noise that settles — like a codec resolving or film developing — into the footage and your name at once.
Live
Stein Retzlaff
08 · Depth
The Name Behind the Mountain
Your name stands inside the location — the ridge and fog pass in front of it, at a real distance. Move your cursor.
Depth simulated · real site uses footage depth map
Stein Retzlaff
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09 · Depth
Rack Focus
A cinematic focus pull — your name razor-sharp over a soft world, then focus racks: the name melts to bokeh and the landscape snaps in.
Live
Stein Retzlaff
The Decade Begins
Lewis & Clark · 2016
10 · Threshold
The Name Is the Doorway
The matured dissolve — no loop. Keep scrolling: the camera flies through your name into the decade below. You drive it.
Scroll-bound · Live
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