Root & Render Objects
Furniture, props, costumes, mechanisms, and strange things made real.
A physical-making branch for one-of-one furniture transformations, props, cosplay pieces, practical effects, mechanisms, and animatronic experiments.
Independent creative studio · OntarioUseful things.
Useful things.
Strange stories.
Thoughtful technology.
Root & Render is the independent studio of Addie Taylor — developer, writer, maker, creative technologist, and transmedia storyteller building websites, systems, objects, experiments, and stories that refuse to stay in one medium.
Web · GIS · Automation · Stories · Objects · ExperimentsRooted in the real world. Rendered through whatever medium the idea needs.
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The studio grows in a few directions.
01 · BUILD
Useful digital tools and physical objects.
Websites, interactive systems, automation, maps, data tools, creative technology, and forgotten objects given another life.
See the services →02 · TELLStories that escape into the world around them.
Fiction, radio, podcasts, film, maps, documents, local history, cosplay, AI performance, nature, and interactive narrative systems.
Enter the worlds →03 · EXPERIMENTIdeas that aren't entirely sure what they are yet.
AI, ecology, interfaces, games, wearables, sensors, prototypes, and assorted attempts to make reality more interesting.
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Original transmedia worlds
Stories that refuse to stay put
Explore the worlds One story. Several doors.
Each medium earns its place by adding something the others cannot.
WORLD 01 · SIGNAL
The Weepers
Fiction, Newcastle Port Pulse broadcasts, podcasts, interactive geography, documents, and a story that may sound different after midnight.
Follow the signal →WORLD 02 · FIELD OFFICEDepartment of Dubious Demarcations
Comedy, Ontario fieldwork, real history, naturalism, GIS, citizen science, cosplay, and bureaucratic claims of questionable authority.
Enter the Department →WORLD 03 · DORMANT ARCHIVEStoryKeeper
A future narrative-performance space growing from Bloom Protocol character work, custom cosplay, and S.A.G.E. — kept deliberately quiet until its story is ready.
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Currently growing
Selected work
View the work index A few things occupying the studio right now.
A few active studio projects outside the story worlds above — useful systems, media, objects, and things still deciding what they want to become.
Newcastle Port Pulse
Sound from the edge of Lake Ontario.
An evolving local media project built through Instagram and YouTube from music, weather, field recordings, stories, and the texture of life around Newcastle.
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Client workWork with Root & Render
Have something interesting to build?
I work with people and small organizations on websites, creative technology, automation, maps, data systems, interactive storytelling, and unusual digital problems that don't fit neatly into a service menu.
Tell me what you're makingWebsites & Digital Presence
Small-business sites, portfolios, campaign pages, and custom web experiences.
Creative Technology
Interactive experiences, unusual interfaces, prototypes, narrative websites, and experimental builds.
Automation, GIS & Data
Python workflows, mapping, reporting, data processing, dashboards, and internal tools.
Transmedia & Interactive Storytelling
World hubs, interactive archives, story maps, narrative systems, and cross-media experiences where each layer adds information.
Something Else
Have a problem that doesn't fit one of these boxes? Those are often the interesting ones.
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From the Lab
The notebook stays open
Open the full notebook Build notes, field observations, and experiments.
AetherOS, Project Sprite, SpriteDex, Newcastle Port Pulse, BubbleBeat, Solaria, and whatever gets built next all have somewhere to leave tracks.
Turning the Lab into a publishing system
Root & Render’s Lab is moving from copied HTML templates to a structured journal that connects projects, notes, filters, and future CMS publishing automatically.
Newcastle Port Pulse: room, hardware, and first-broadcast prep
An early progress note: the workspace was cleared, hardware setup had begun, and programming ideas were moving toward a first broadcast.
AetherOS and the idea of a more alive interface
A direction-setting note on making personal software feel less sterile: more visual, atmospheric, connected, and inspired by living systems.
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Hi, I'm Addie.About the studio
I collect skills so stories and useful ideas have fewer reasons to remain imaginary.
I'm a developer, writer, maker, creative technologist, and transmedia storyteller. Root & Render is where those practices meet: technology with more humanity, creativity with enough structure to become real, and stories free to escape into whatever medium they need.
About Root & Render