ElevatorBeat
A glass elevator tower rising out of a red desert at dusk, its lit observation decks glowing amber, with a full moon and the trail of a departing rocket in the deep blue sky.

ElevatorBeat

A Portland digital art collective.

We all have day jobs. But we also have Claude. And we believe that if we don’t tap into this highly creative time, we’ll go nuts — so we built this digital studio, a space we can inhabit between Slack messages.

Right now our explorations touch the iPhone (sorry, Android) but that’s not all we’re capable of. This space will come to curate our other tinkerings across digital, narrative, and the cinematic arts.

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The studio

Software as story.

We have always wanted to make apps but never had the patience to learn how to code. The age of AI has unlocked a new level of creativity for us. We sketch, prototype, build, and release apps with the care we would give any other creative work.

Some begin with a problem we want solved (the default image straightener is weak). Others begin with an image, an interaction, or a question that must be answered (what would I look like as a drag queen).

Each one becomes its own small world — and, to carry the metaphor of this page forward, a room.

From idea to experiment to launch.

The studio's observation lounge: a wall of curved brass-framed glass looking out over red desert mesas and a lit pool, a crescent moon high in the evening sky, a curved leather banquette in the foreground.

The Gallery

Dragify

An imagemaking app for drag portraits that couldn’t exist any other way.

Artist statement:

I built Dragify for two reasons. The first is I wanted to see what I would look like transformed into a drag queen. I also wanted to see what was possible in terms of AI-generated fashion.

Turns out, entire catalogues can be built in a flash. What started as a pool of more than 5,000 images was eventually pared down to the handful of curated collections you’ll find in the app.

  • iPhone app
  • Released
  • Portrait tool
Open Dragify Scan to installDragify on the App Store

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A Euphoria // UV look: a teal bob and a zipped leather dress in front of hot pink neon rings.
A Canonical Queens look: a black strapless gown with a long train and a full afro, on a flat green ground.
An Afterglow look: a crimson beaded gown and auburn waves in a red velvet salon.
A Haute Haus look: a copper satin mermaid gown with opera gloves, photographed in a raw concrete colonnade.
A Euphoria // UV look: candyfloss curls and a liquid silver dress cut through by a blue neon beam.
A Haute Haus look: a tiered teal tulle ball gown with sheer sleeves, shot in a concrete courtyard.
A Canonical Queens look: a tall blue updo and a monochrome zebra gown against a flat cyan ground.
A Ground Control look: a silver and mint flight suit with a rocket headdress and a smoking ray gun.
An Afterglow look: an embroidered emerald suit and finger waves in a red-lit drawing room.
An Afterglow look: a white feathered gown beside a lit pool under a full moon, holding a sparkler.
A Haute Haus look: a cream feathered gown with a ruffled train against pale concrete.
A Ground Control look: a silver flight suit and a bubble helmet over a platinum bouffant, ray gun in hand.
A low glass pavilion and its elevator shaft in flat morning light, pale blue sky above a wide sand plain and distant grey mountains.

The exterior

Not everything succeeds.

This AI-generated “ElevatorBeat” house is a hazy failure. It’s fine as a placeholder for now. The tinkering will continue.

The study

StraightPic

A gay little tool for making crooked photos straight again.

Artist statement:

My husband is an architect and I always have to ask him to square up and straighten my photos because I can never do it and the default iPhone tools are piss poor.

And so, we built this app to be exactly what we wanted out of a straightener: simple UI, precise controls, and 0% quality loss when you save.

We thought it would be kind of funny to style this app that’s all about being straight, and make it a little gay.

  • iPhone app
  • Utility
  • Coming soon

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The StraightPic editor on an iPhone: a photograph of a leaning brick smokestack with four rainbow-ringed handles marking a quadrilateral on the brick wall, a row of Vertical, Horizontal and Perspective tools with the active tab in a rainbow gradient, and a rainbow-gradient Straighten button.
Set the linePlace the polygon on a clear distortion.
The same photograph in StraightPic after correction: the smokestack and the buildings beside it now stand upright and square to the frame, with a rainbow-gradient Save as New Photo button below.
Snap to attentionWatch it straighten up right quick.
The pavilion and its elevator shaft seen from far out on the plain at night, alone under an enormous rising moon, with a rocket's vapour trail crossing the rust-coloured sky.

The observation deck

We’ve created two experiences. More will come from whatever we notice next.

The collection will expand as our interests lead us to build new things. We see these apps as tools, curations, or objects that nobody asked for. When something captures our attention, we'll build it.

Ground floor

Made in Portland. Released
everywhere.

ElevatorBeat designs, builds and supports every app in the collection from Portland, Oregon.