Films, apps, games and tools. All live.

Highly Appropriate is Jonah Oskow's playground. By day he is Director of Creative AI at Big Spaceship; this is what he makes for himself. Nothing below is a screenshot: watch it, play it, use it.

Film work

spots, music videos, shorts
FilmsAI video

Film Work

Commercial spots, music videos and short films, made with AI and finished with live action, CG and VFX, so the story stays in control and the product looks like the product.

Apps

built, shipped, in use
UltraNote: a sticky note holding a note holding a note
AppAccounts open

UltraNote

Notes inside notes, forever. Every note is a sticky note stuck inside another one, and you fall inward by scrolling, as deep as you like. Reminders arrive by email, a time tracker fills in your timesheet, and your notes follow you to every computer.

Get an account

Every account is approved by hand. Once yours is, you get an email with a link to set your password. Already in? Open UltraNote
SuperGiant: seven lights in orbit
AppAstrology

SuperGiant

Astrology was never wrong, only under-sampled. Your chart against the planets, the fixed stars and objects beyond the galaxy, a daily reading by email, and The Expanse: a 3D star map where members claim stars and fly ships into live battles.

Explainers

not videos: every frame is drawn live in your browser
A paper-collage cat astronaut sipping tea on the moonLive JavaScript
2:00Image generators

How an AI Draws

One prompt, "a cat astronaut sipping tea on the moon", followed from training pictures through noise and denoising to latent space, in hand-made paper collage.

A red fox in the snow beside its prompt split into tokensLive JavaScript
3:41Diffusion, for real

Signal from Noise

Diffusion at university level: pixels as numbers, the update rule, attention, guidance and latent space, all on real data from an instrumented Stable Diffusion XL run.

Specimen 7 in the red alarm light of a late-90s research labLive 3D
4:09Video generators

Latent Ridge

How AI video generators work, staged as an in-engine cutscene from a late-90s shooter set in a secret research lab, rendered in real-time 3D.

Play and tools

free, in your browser
A giant one-eyed tentacle creature smashing through a neon lab
GameMouse or touch

Tentacle Rampage

Specimen X-99 has escaped, and you are it. A rhythm smash-em-up in five stages, from a neon research lab to a zero-G station, a shuttle chase past the Moon and a space elevator down to Earth. Play one stage or the whole campaign, sit back and watch, or fly the drone. Works on phones.

Lensbench: a gold knot framed through a 35 mm lens
ToolGLB viewer

Lensbench

A GLB viewer that thinks like a camera. Drop in a model, pick a real lens and angle, light it or match it into a photo of a room, and save a PNG at up to 4K. Nothing leaves your computer.

About

Jonah Oskow / Brooklyn, NY
Jonah Oskow

Jonah Oskow

Director of Creative AI, Big Spaceship

Jonah is Director of Creative AI at Big Spaceship. Before that he spent 15 years in commercial post-production, a film editor turned AI director known for comedy and for using CG and VFX to push ideas further.

Highly Appropriate is his playground: the films, apps, games and tools he makes to find out what the tools can really do. More about Jonah

Based inBrooklyn, NY