Josh Levano.

First Day Back is a band based in the forests of Santa Cruz, CA. With 200k+ listeners on Spotify and over 2mil streams on their song “Paint”, First Day Back is the vulnerability and passion that comes with making music with your best friends.

Turning Google Street View panoramas into 3D Gaussian splats a full reconstruction pipeline, from equirectangular reprojection to trained splat output.

A real-time chatroom built for First Day Back, continuing our ongoing collaboration. As you type, your message appears through an animated typewriter. Turning an ordinary chatroom into something tactile, a small nod to a lost analog craft in a live digital space.

A collection of minigames designed to raise awareness, improve preparedness, and build resilience against wildfire disasters, developed through community-driven design in partnership with residents and local experts from recently affected areas.