Wilderness, shaped into gardens for particular purposes.
Opposable Thumbs is a web design and development practice.
The work splits two ways: sites for people who make and do things — joiners, groomers, artists — and original tools built to answer a question nobody had commissioned.
Everything here is built the same way. Single files where possible. No analytics, no third-party fonts, no trackers, nothing shared with anyone. This page makes no request to anywhere but this domain, and none at all until you ask it for something. The scene is drawn and animated in your browser; most of its sound is too. A handful of real recordings are folded in alongside that — the waterfall, the wind and the fire, and the pencil, the axe and a few birdsong calls — sourced from Mixkit's free sound-effects library and embedded in this file, so hearing them makes no request either. The radio's music — public-domain recordings by HoliznaCC0 — is the one thing actually fetched, from here, and only if you switch it on. Nothing about your visit is recorded, by me or by anybody else.