The Detective's Desk
Available Apparatus
6 instruments · every one of them runs here, in this browser
- Bureau Tool No. 001
Invoice Issuance Apparatus
Generate client-ready invoices in bureau livery — line items, terms and a serial, set and ready to send.
Nothing is filed anywhere but your machine.
Open - Bureau Tool No. 002
Pocket-Watch Pomodoro
Time the inquiry — twenty-five minutes at a stretch, with a recess to follow, and a chime when the hand comes round.
Keeps running while you work elsewhere on the paper.
Open - Bureau Tool No. 003
The Bureau Wireless
A valve receiver with meters. Tune eleven carriers by hand, then build the room around them — rain, hearth, street, the clock on the mantel.
Six house recordings, five live carriers from SomaFM.
Open - Bureau Tool No. 004
The Turntable
Drop the needle on a station, or patch your own Spotify in. Six pressings to choose from, full screen, with the crackle underneath.
Surface noise is synthesised, not a loop.
Open - Bureau Tool No. 005
The Darkroom
Develop a photograph on seventeen film stocks, 1904 to 2009 — disposable flash, cross-process, tungsten — with grain, halation and a Polaroid frame you can write on.
Runs entirely in the browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Open - Bureau Tool No. 006
The Stationer's Cabinet
Set a letter in one of four hands, engross a deed of gift, or lay out a posy sheet from a drawer of eighteen pressed specimens.
The flowers are drawn by a generator, not photographed.
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