Ben Gauslin
About
Hello, I’m a former Google engineer, Chicago architect, and design teacher — and will forever be a New Orleans musician.
This little website is home to some of the web, architecture, and music stuff I’ve made over the years.
Please feel free to look around...
Web
Browser-based apps powered by TypeScript and Web Components
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Powers Of Ten
Adaptation of the film by Charles and Ray Eames
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Good And Cheap
Web app based on the cookbook by Leanne Brown
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Moon
Location-based moorise, moonset, and lunar phase
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Calorie Calculator
Calculator for determining daily calorie needs
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Clock
A grid of clock faces that reveal patterns over time
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Compound Interest
Calculator with support for multiple currencies
Gauslin.com is powered by Eleventy with plain JS and vanilla CSS.
Architecture
Explorations of space and light through material and structure
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Barge Board Shotgun Renovation
Breathing new life into an 1890s shotgun house made of barge boards
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House for an Art Collector
Project Architect at Shafer Architects in Chicago for all construction phases
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Vieux Carré Renovation
Modernizing a very old house in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter
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Travel Sketches
Documenting moments in architecture with pen and pencil
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Travel Collages
Storytelling in fragments via found and discarded objects
Music
Some groups I’ve performed and recorded with alongside some charts I made
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Song Charts
Transcriptions of fun/cool/tricky basslines and drum parts by session masters
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The Pietasters
Co-founder of 8-piece ska band with a career spanning over 30 years
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Thumpdaddy
5-piece Memphis-based party band with an energetic (and exhausting) 4-hour show
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SomNoSom
Recording isolated drum, bass, and keyboard tracks across timezones
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Twelve Modern
5-piece Chicago-based experimental group with a violinist and two drummers