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UsefulOrbit

The system was built. The channel was not launched.

A short-form media venture and production system for finding useful technology stories, verifying them, and turning them into a coherent visual channel.

A frame from the UsefulOrbit motion identity, resting on the finished mark: a white U with a green orbit traced around it.
On screenScreen capture of the running software. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

What I made

Not a channel — a system for making one. Sourcing, verification, motion language, brand, and production pipeline designed as a single object.

Where it is now

Built, unlaunched, and shown as a system rather than a channel.

A short reel built only from original or cleared visuals. The channel never went live, and nothing here implies it did.

A few more things worth seeing

A contact sheet of the motion identity, following the orbit as it draws itself around the U.
On screenScreen capture of the running software. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

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