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BlaininC · Blain Crellin · Melbourne
One photograph, listened to.
Blain Crellin spent thirty years photographing cities. Now he writes electronic soul. The site had to introduce both to a cold visitor in one continuous scroll, then carry his archive off two ageing hosting platforms without losing a post or a portrait. Live on www.blaininc.com since 4 September 2026.
The concept
Identity first. The composer line is earned.
Cold visitors do not know who Blain is, so the opening names the act, the man and the single, and gives them one thing to do: listen. From there the page is one photograph being listened to. The camera only ever moves closer. Brass notation lines are traced over the structures his eye found, from CityLink in 1999 to the Water Cube in Beijing to a held horizon in Thailand, and in the finale they converge into a single waveform that delivers the play moment for his new single, I'm Home.
Below the film the music comes first: the full Bandcamp catalogue with artwork, then the photography archive, then the story. Visitors who prefer reduced motion get the same content as a still page.
ClientBlain Crellin, BlaininC
SectorPhotography and music
ScopeDesign, build, migration of two domains
Live since4 Sep 2026
What was carried across
Thirty years of work, none of it lost.
Every post, audited by script
All posts ported with their old addresses preserved, then swept: dead image links removed, invisible share strips stripped, insecure video embeds fixed, dates and anchors made consistent.
A portrait series recovered
Twenty-six portrait gallery pages from 2001 were only reachable through a script menu on the old site. They were recovered and republished so the series survives.
Rehosted the same day
Fifty-eight photographs hotlinked from the old host stopped resolving the moment DNS moved. All were rehosted before the day was out.
The catalogue, with artwork
All seventeen Bandcamp releases on the Music page with covers, the featured track set to the new single, and a radio mix embedded.
The photography pages, made to rank
The architectural photography pages rewritten around commercial architectural photography in Melbourne, with commissions, clients and testimonials on one page.
Design notes
His palette, his materials.
Near-black paper, a brass accent for the notation and a signal red taken from his own CityLink photographs. Marcellus for display, Archivo for body, a monospaced HUD for the chapter plates. The motion is built on GSAP and Lenis, vendored with the site rather than loaded from a CDN, and the film is pinned and scrubbed by the visitor's own scroll.
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