hell/toupee//
Movies, music, weird things. The personal project repository of Justin Raymond Park — films, photography, software, games, writing, and now, things vibecoded into existence.
est. 2006 // .com → .org → .webflow.io → herenow playing
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Never Have I Ever
Cute show. The storylines can be predictable and overly corny but there's a lot of heart and some genuinely good laughs and everyone clear put their all into it. terrific cast.
Hacks
lol now I'M also rewatching it!!!
The Baby-Sitter III
Ha dude halfway and this one is pretty clever. Excellent usage of Debra as the second narrator
Welcome to Dead House
dude. slow build, WILD last act
The Baby-Sitter II
Yo, not bad. I enjoyed it a lot. The big reveal was a little corny tho
Hacks
its actually incredible how this show can appeal to literally everyone i know (even mom and dad)
films
video // wank bros. & beyond · expanded view →- 2008
Carlo Pantano is a GlassblowerDocumentary on Penn State's Carlo Pantano — materials scientist, distinguished professor, glassblower.Carlo Pantano, Director of the Materials Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University, blows glass and talks about art and science. - 2008
The Amish NightmareAn Amish man's world is turned upside down when he wakes up and finds his house full of technology.An Amish man's world is turned upside down when he wakes up and finds his house full of technology. - 2006Polska MadnessIn the future, polish sausage is a hallucinogenic drug.In the future, polish sausage is a hallucinogenic drug. One man finds a connection to a supply of the drug, but things go wrong when his clients can't get their fix.
- 2006Xtreme BreadAdvertisement for Stroehmann's Xtreme White & Wheat Breads. ...Yes, they really existed.Advertisement for Stroehmann's Xtreme White & Wheat Breads. ...Yes, they really existed.
- 2005
Dawn of the Code RedThere was actually a script for this one.There was actually a script for this one! - 2005
Day of the Code RedThe epic. A man falls in love with a bottle of Mountain Dew, meets a man whose skin is Plaid, and it all ends terribly tragically.The epic. A man falls in love with a bottle of Mountain Dew, meets a man whose skin is Plaid, and it all ends terribly tragically. - 2005
Night of the Living Code RedAll it took was a video camera and too much free time.All it took was a video camera and too much free time. This is crap, but see what it spawned. - 1993
Link's Awakening Part IICreated with Mario Paint and a VCR, this is the unofficial sequel to Link's Awakening.Created with Mario Paint and a VCR, this is the unofficial sequel to Link's Awakening — the original Hell-Toupee project before Hell-Toupee was a thing.
music
audio // i forgot, mostly · expanded view →- 2016
PurrI'm gonna purr, purr, purr.I'm gonna purr, purr, purr. — I Forgot, somewhere between sleep and waking. - 2013
We ForgetSlightly higher-fi epic weirdness.The late-period I Forgot record. Still weird, still epic, but recorded on equipment that had seen the inside of a music store. - 2009
Did You Bang Her?'This is one of the worst albums I've heard on Jamendo.'An actual review from an actual listener on Jamendo, worn since as a badge of honor. I Forgot at their most uncompromising, which is saying something. - 2008
Acid FleasUnfiltered, 7th-generation kinescope recordings unearthed from the deepest bowels of repressed nightmares.A collection of unfiltered, 7th generation kinescope recordings of subway documentary and burlesque show excerpts that were wrecklessly unearthed from the deepest bowels of Hunter S. Thompson and Freddie Mercury's love child's twisted repressed nightmares that are being forcefully displayed in front of your mechanically pryed open eyelids by both an old asthmatic woman who is reading poetry and a large group of oriental children on mescaline playing kazoos, synthesizers running low on batteries, and banjos thru 11 differently configured guitar amps simultaneously in a cornfield guarded by growling black dogs tied to tiki torches with trimmer line at 4 AM that hit you suddenly and surprisingly like a kick in the genitals from behind by someone wearing ruby slippers partially wrapped in aluminum foil. - 2007
OttsixScreamed, gargled, grunted and moaned expressions of inner turmoil and sexual frustration.Ottsix is a terrifyingly frantic assortment of screamed, gargled, grunted and moaned expressions of inner turmoil and sexual frustration as heard reverberating from the insides of a loosely tied burlap sack full of cutlery, baby dolls, packing peanuts, and aircraft cable that is haphazardly falling down a sanitarium's spiral staircase in both slow motion and fast-forward simultaneously. - 2005
Eagle God Book BookI Forgot's debut: one full hour of post-teenage isolationist free noise pop and somnambulist philosophizing.one full hour of post teenage isolationist free noise pop and somnambulist philosophizing sandwiched in between songs about humanity-as-dolphin and giant erections. certainly unlike anything anyone anywhere has heard since lou reed heard don cherry having terrible liquor shits in the bathroom right after they jammed The Bells and lou trying as he might to remember if he even did or not. packaged in total nonsense full color j-card w/art by j.Lo, it's a beautiful thing! - 2005
Tango Gang FightsOriginally planned as a 2-mini-CD set on Hand Panther; eventually released on a c60 by Circumstancial.I Forgot was going to create a 2-mini-CD set on Hand Panther since they were on a roll with EGBB. The first eight tracks were called 'Three Inch Ideas' and the latter 'One Third Boston.' Although much of the material is new, some was based on - or is - older recordings. Eventually released on a c60 by Josh's own Circumstancial, split with his San Francisco music. There was originally to be one more track at the very end, a tribute to Metroid.
photography
imagery // pre-imgur to present · expanded view →- 2024Shavers Creek Photo-a-DayA Playwright + GraphQL-intercept scraper to rescue the Shavers Creek Photo-a-Day archive (2012–2019).Playwright (headless Chromium) drives Facebook's year filter UI and intercepts the GraphQL responses, parses out Photo-a-Day posts, and downloads the CDN URLs. 145 posts recovered from 2012 alone.
- 2010Birding life listLife list of birds, starting in central Pennsylvania.
- 2007Philadelphia (2007)Before we got almost-mugged.Before we got almost-mugged. From a Flickr set, taken in a single afternoon.
- 2006Dissolving ChestnutsImage-host experiment circa 2006. Two versions, plus a homebuilt auto-thumbnailer.Pre-Imgur image hosting + thumbnailing. Upload an image, get a URL, get a thumbnail. Hand-rolled PHP.
software
tools // things that ran · expanded view →- 2026
Clown CountdownA sleek glassmorphism countdown timer that ends in a terrifying jumpscare... or a friendly surprise.Set a duration or a target time, pick your theme — Scary Clown, Friendly Clown, or Non-Clown Mode (cute dog, quacking duck, mooing cow, wise owl...) — and wait. What happens at 00:00 depends entirely on choices you made earlier and must live with. - 2026
Reader BewareAn R.L. Stine book tracker — Goosebumps, Fear Street, The Baby-Sitter, Point Horror. 157 books of dread, catalogued.Track your Goosebumps (the original 62), Goosebumps Series 2000, Fear Street, Baby-Sitter and Point Horror collection, with cloud sync, drippy green typography, and every cover in its lurid glory. Reader beware — you're in for a tracker. - 2026
Survey SaysMake a cute little poll in seconds and share the link. Text or image options, live or hidden results.Ask a question (optional), add options (text or images), share one link, watch the votes roll in — live or hidden until the big reveal. The Family Feud energy is implied but legally unaffiliated. - 2026
WCROW · The Night CrowAn AI radio station for an audience of one — live DJ, real stories, your music.Give it an artist and the Night Crow starts a trail: the first record is theirs, then the DJ follows a musical route through connected records, talking between songs like it's 2AM on a real station. Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube as the record crate. - 2025
Co-op Mad LibsOne room. Many blanks. Zero dignity. Make a room, share the link, fill the blanks together, reveal the chaos.Live group storytelling: pick a story, share one link, and watch your colleagues fill the blanks together. Then reveal the beautiful disaster. Someone will add 'haunted turnip.' Someone always does. - 2025
Talk to Transformer 2.0Neural text completion, GPT2 style. Back from the dead, baby.A resurrection of the beloved talk-to-transformer toy from the before-times. Downloads 100MB of actual GPT-2 and runs it locally in your browser, because in 2025 the state of the art of 2019 fits in a tab. - 2025Timezone PopBrowser extension that quietly tells you what time it is for the people you care about.A timezone-aware popup that lives in your browser toolbar. Add people, see their local time at a glance. No accounts, no servers.
- 2025
Toupee's MediaLogA living journal of everything played, read, watched, and strummed. Quick notes and longform reviews, straight from the couch.Games, music, guitar, books, movies, TV — logged in real time to a Firestore database and beamed directly onto this very homepage like some kind of miracle. The 'now playing //' feed above is this thing, live. - 2006Auto-ThumbnailerFeel free to use this excellent tool to quickly upload any image to the internet. You also get a thumbnail!Drop an image in, get a permanent URL and a thumbnail. Pre-cloud image hosting, written in PHP and ImageMagick.
games
playable // vibecoded & otherwise · expanded view →- 2026
Balloon Pants 🚧A pixel-art platformer about a small bear with legendary trousers. Campaign, co-op, and a versus mode called Pop-Off.Baron von Bareskin — a bitter bear who could never find pants that fit — stole the Wardrobe of Wonders and scattered its legendary pants across the land. Pip the bear must float, bounce, and pop through it all. 🐻🎈 - 2026
Comet Tails 🚧A tail-first defense of the Meridian Reach. On-rails space shooter — roll, boost, bomb, fire.Ember Squadron, est. Tuesday. Seven stages and a boss, gamepad supported, barrel rolls encouraged. The proud tradition of animals flying spaceships continues. - 2026
Glade 🚧Low-poly co-op action in the woods. Local play, host online, join online — plus cloud saves and a level editor.A bespectacled rabbit, a sloth, and something green and skeletal walk into a forest clearing. Couch co-op or online, with a level editor for building your own glades. - 2026
Luma & Pip: Starleap 🚧A pixel platformer about a cat and their star. Jump, throw-teleport, dash, and recall your way through one big metroidvania world.Story mode or Adventure mode — one big world, find your powers, metroidvania-style. Z to jump, X to throw and teleport, C to dash, V to recall Pip. R restarts. Be nice to Pip. - 2026
Pocket Highways 🚧Tiny Roads. Big Loads. Steer a little truck across a pocket-sized Pennsylvania, delivering to eight PA towns and beyond.WASD or arrows to steer, space to boost, X to U-turn, gamepad works too. Two-player co-op and versus. Features brain fog (navigate by landmarks), PAC-PIKE (munch the dots, dodge the ghosts), and license plates to earn — starting with the Keystone State. - 2025
Disk Survivor 🚧You are a heroic floppy disk surviving ever-growing waves. Pick a web-1.0 theme, collect weapons, endure.An arcade survivors-like built with Three.js where the protagonist is a 3.5-inch floppy and the enemies keep coming. Lives at garfieldslament.com, a domain whose origin story is best left unexamined. - 2024Snow Shoe 3DA small, real-time 3D walk through Snow Shoe, PA.Population: rural. A WebGL recreation of the place I grew up, modeled and walkable in the browser.
- 2015Mario Maker LevelsA collection of dastardly levels.A collection of dastardly levels designed for Super Mario Maker. Some are mean. Some are very mean.
writing
etc. // words, maps, podcasts · expanded view →- 2015Hell-ooooo world!Ten years of Hell-Toupee. Restarting on Webflow.A milestone post: the site moves from its 2009 grid-of-color-blocks to Webflow. The .com is gone but the project continues.
- 2008EW GUIA UI/UX blog about Firefox, Windows 7, Linux, and what it would take to design a better tab bar.Posts included 'Firefox 4 Concept: A Tab Bar Overhaul a la Windows 7 Taskbar', 'Holy Windows 7 UI, Microsoft.', 'Linux Orpdort!!', 'Ubuntu Thoughts', and 'Extension Spotlight: Firefox Tabs'.
- 2007Map of Snow ShoePopulation: rural.A hand-drawn map of Snow Shoe, PA — the borough I grew up in. Originally posted as a side project alongside snow-shoe.myminicity.com.
- 2007Nerdish Podcast21 episodes between 2007 and 2008. Episode titles include 'Master Chief is Jesus!', 'Walrus isn't a Place', and 'It IS a Space Castle'.Recorded over Skype. Forums at the-nerdish.com. Hosted via an Odeo embed when Odeo was still around.
- 2006Humphrey Smackeroo & the 404 Error BoysAn absurdist character universe. Humphrey, his alternate personality The Shmuckeroo, and a steed named Hobbes.Full character bios for Humphrey Smackeroo, Jorje, Reginald, and Weirdbeard, plus episodes and sketches. A founding pillar of the original hell-toupee.com's 'my projects//' column, preserved forever in the Wayback Machine.
links
friends // others // elsewhere · † = wayback onlyfriends
- justin coltdesign // east/west road trip
- the uke-uzaukulele menace // stool sample
- nerdi.shthe podcast forums
- the fourth world
- two girls kissingtgk // myspace era
- xpk2
- jalawafarts were invisible
others
- perry bible fellowshipstill perfect
- homestar runnereverybody everybody
- cinemassacreavgn
- cabel's blogpanic!
- 8bit peopleschiptune label
- action buttontim rogers reviews
- bob's gamethe saga
- weekly weed wisdom
- pete ashdown
vault
byte-for-byte snapshots of every previous incarnation · enter the vault2006just links // dark grey + rainbow text2007plus a blog // ramblings on wordpress2008categorized // audio, video, imagery2009the grid // overlib tooltips + color blocks2011single-page grid // 4×4 colored blocks2012inika serif headlines // google fonts arrive2013mature grid // the last full version