A live tank of sea nettles drifting in blue water, which has been the internet's default calming video for years.
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Monterey Bay Jelly Cam sits in Zen Visuals under Unwind, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as calming, mesmerising and beautiful.
Slow, quiet, low-stimulation visuals. Nothing here flashes, autoplays loudly or asks for anything. Background-tab material.
Enormous aerial panoramas of volcanoes, reefs and cities that you can spin around inside, shot from helicopters and drones.
A global membership devoted to looking up, with a cloud of the day and a manifesto against blue-sky thinking.
A looping animated café with lofi streams and rain sliders, built to be left open in a corner of the screen all day.
Thousands of full-screen graphics experiments, each one a few hundred lines of maths you can read and edit live.
Symmetrical generative art that blooms under the cursor, which everybody who touches it turns into a wallpaper factory.
An endless procedurally generated drive through mountains and deserts, with no traffic, no timer and nothing to hit.
Scroll from the surface to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, meeting every creature at the depth it actually lives.
Type anything at all and watch it drift upward and dissolve. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent, nothing can be recovered.