The original Humor Tree was a turn-of-the century internet art project developed at the tail end of my high school career for entry in the annual senior-year art competition hosted by the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Longview, Texas.
Despite the enthusiastic support of an art teacher* at the school, the director* of the museum itself, and the generous sponsorship of the local Best Buy, this project was barred from that competition first by the administrators of Longview High School and then by the assistant superintendent of the school district, all because I refused to remove a mild swear and a handful of disembodied (and almost entirely male) nipples.
All of the code was written very badly by a novice programmer for very old web browsers, using what were then cutting-edge Web programming techniques which are now mostly outdated and/or broken.
In the intervening decades (!!!) I have made minimal updates to try to keep things working in modern browsers while retaining the (awful) character of the original code, but there is undoubtedly still some brokenness throughout.
(Oh, and expect approximately none of this to work on your phone. Best viewed in a good old fashioned desktop browser, the way God intended.)
Anyway, here it is. Start at the beginning and try to navigate all the way to the end, or jump to individual pages in order below:
After high school, I kept pushing small bits of art and web programming experimentation up from time to time.
As with any good side project, I wasted a lot of time redesigning the home page every few months/years.
Miscellaneous related projects, offshoots, etc.