[JLH]JUSTIN LEE HODGES

Projects

Analog Obscure

Analog Obscure
analogobscure.com

An AI-powered cultural discovery tool. You describe what you're looking for across any discipline and the clerk, Reel, finds genuinely excellent independent work that mainstream algorithms bury. No popularity signals. No data collection. No accounts. A band with 50 listeners gets the same shot as one with 50,000.

AI has been used to scrape artists' work without permission and bury independent artists under algorithmic popularity contests. Analog Obscure points that same technology at finding those artists and advocating for them.

The Wildlight Project

The Wildlight Project
thewildlightproject.org

A nonprofit artist marketplace founded in memory of Brenton Little. Artists across all disciplines sell their work and choose to contribute a percentage of every sale to fund emergency therapy grants for fellow creatives in crisis. No listing fees. No monthly charges. Artists funding artists through the thing they already do.

Artists experience higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide than the general population. Most can't afford therapy. Many don't have insurance. The ones who could seek help often don't because they've been told that suffering is the price of making something real. The Wildlight Project exists to fight that lie and fund the cure.