Creative umbrella for Trip & friends

A studio orbiting a three-legged pit bull.

Three-Legged Dog & Company is the tiny universe behind a zen meditation pup, a coastal rental brand, experimental fidget toys, and whatever else refuses to stay just an idea.

Trip-powered meditation & breathing
Guest & owner portals for the coast
Prototype-first digital experiments
Trip, Chief Vibes Officer
Light brown pit bull · Right rear leg missing · Zero judgment
7 chakras • 4 phases • 1 extra leg of wisdom
Root: steady on three legs.
Sacral: wags & wiggles.
Solar: courageous shelter dog glow-up.
Heart: aggressively affectionate.
Throat: occasional snorts, future voice-over star.
Third eye: sees snacks in all timelines.
Crown: one paw in enlightenment, one paw in chaos.
Built for screens, rooted in real dogs, mobility, and making calm feel less precious and more possible.
Three-Legged Dog & Company · Est. 20XX

Brand Constellation

Each project lives in its own orbit, but they all report back here to Trip. Here’s what’s currently in the sky.

Meditation & Breathwork

Meditate with Trip

A breathing companion app and web experience where a three-legged guru walks you through calm, one wag at a time.

Zen breathing circle Dog-themed mantras Audio-guided sessions
Open the meditation app Web app · Demo & full version in progress
Coastal Stays & Portals

Turtle Proper-Tease

A slightly cheeky coastal vacation brand with guest request portals, owner dashboards, and a suspicious number of turtle jokes.

Dynamic guest quotes Owner portal Postmark-powered email
Visit the live site Unit 1 now · Future units planned
Personal Studio

EJ in Austin

A personal site orbiting dogs, zen, creative experiments, and life in Austin — including Trip, Puppet, and assorted chaos.

Trip art gallery Puppet’s Place Web experiments
Touch-First Toys

Digi-Fidget

A collection of on-screen fidget toys focused on texture, sound, and gentle motion — built for phones, brains, and restless thumbs.

React / Expo prototype Haptics & loops In active exploration
See where it lives in the lab Mobile-first · Experimental
Music Tools

Music Sandbox

An offline-first scratchpad for musicians: lyrics, metronome, lightweight piano, and chord guesses — no cloud drama.

Expo / React Native On-device tools Future packs planned
3D & Sound Art

Living Sound Garden

A surreal bioluminescent world in Three.js, where sound grows glowing plants and tendrils react to music in real time.

Three.js Audio-reactive visuals Prototype / playground
Playground · Particles

Pawticle Playground

A particle playground where physics, paws, and curiosity collide — tap, drag, and poke to see what the pawticles do next.

Interactive canvas Mouse & touch reactive Pure browser fun
Open Pawticle Playground Sandbox · May eat your time
Playground · Ambient

Meditating Fireflies

A quiet field of glowing fireflies that drift and gather like breathing — a tiny ambient scene for zoning out between emails.

Soft motion Chill visual loop Meditation-adjacent
Watch the fireflies Browser-based · Low stakes
Playground · Text

Word Confetti

A playful text experiment wired straight into this page: trigger a burst of letter chaos, then watch everything snap gently back into place.

Interactive words Motion & gravity vibes Returns to normal
Trigger word confetti No new tab · Just vibes
Archive · High Chaos

Chaos Index

The previous front-and-center homepage, preserved as a maximalist snapshot of Three-Legged Dog & Co. before the glow-up.

Legacy layout Full color chaos Very “everything all at once”
Visit the chaos archive Read-only · Bring snacks
What we make

Small, opinionated projects that feel like they were made by actual humans: dog-centered meditation, honest rental tools, and apps built around how real brains and bodies behave.

How we work

Prototype early, iterate loudly, and keep accessibility, mobility, and neuro-spicy brains in the center of the table. If it doesn’t work on a tired Tuesday night, it doesn’t ship.

Who it’s for

People who like their calm a little messy, their tools transparent, and their brands with actual dogs and weird little mascots instead of generic stock photos.

The Lab

A non-exhaustive list of current experiments, rewrites, and “let’s see if this works” projects under the Three-Legged Dog & Co. umbrella.

Currently in motion
  • Zen Breathing App — Trip Edition Rebuilding the breathing circle, timing logic, and chakra progress to feel smoother, clearer, and kinder on rough days.
    Rebuild in progress · Web first
  • Turtle Proper-Tease Owners’ Portal Calendar logic, pricing tiers, email templates, and “please don’t double-book the holiday weekend” safeguards.
    Active dev · Calendar + pricing logic
  • Digi-Fidget Box Touch-driven magnetic tiles, ambient hums, and snap / repel sounds tuned for phones and tablets.
    Prototype · Haptics & sound passes
  • Living Sound Garden Audio-reactive lotus and crystal blooms, layered zones (Alien Grove, Bioluminescent Forest, and more), built on Three.js.
    Visual system · Audio wiring next

If something here sounds like it should exist sooner, that usually bumps it up the list. Everything starts in the lab, then graduates into a proper brand or lives on as a playground.

Stacks & toys

Under the hood, most of this world is powered by:

HTML / CSS / JS · PHP · MySQL
React · React Native / Expo
Three.js · Audio analysis
Postmark · DreamHost
Adobe CC · Illustrator · After Effects (baby steps)
3D experiments in Blender (Trip in 3D)

If you’re a collaborator, dev, artist, or chaotic good human who vibes with this ecosystem, you can usually find the latest experiments linked from here first.

Recent tweaks in this universe:

  • Homepage glow-up New Trip & Puppet gallery, refreshed brand constellation, and a calmer but still slightly feral layout.
  • Word Confetti moved in The chaos engine now lives right on the homepage – explode, swirl, and reset without leaving the page.
  • Chaos Index archived The “everything on screen at once” version of the site now lives as Chaos Index in the brand constellation.
Tiny projects I’m secretly building next

The stuff that’s too fun to ignore, not polished enough to count as “a whole thing” yet, but very much alive in the background.

Music Sandbox
Offline-first song lab with lyric scratchpads, on-device metronome, baby piano, and “what chords even fit this?” helpers.
Prototype cleanup · Pack ideas brewing
SMASH — the game
A chaotic, arcade-style game idea orbiting rhythm, timing, and maybe some extremely dramatic on-screen explosions.
Concept art & mechanics notebook phase