ElevatorBeat
A glass elevator tower rising out of a red desert at dusk, its lit observation decks glowing amber, with a full moon and the trail of a departing rocket in the deep blue sky.

ElevatorBeat · Portland

We make iPhone apps the way artists make work.

Two are out now on the App Store. Download one, or both.

iPhone app 01

Dragify

Take one selfie. See yourself in full drag.

Dragify puts your face into original drag looks — wigs, gowns, makeup and set — across curated collections like Afterglow, Haute Haus and Ground Control. The looks on this wall are a few from the app’s catalogue.

Download Dragify Scan to installDragify on the App Store

Artist statement:

I built Dragify for two reasons. The first is I wanted to see what I would look like transformed into a drag queen. I also wanted to see what was possible in terms of AI-generated fashion.

Turns out, entire catalogues can be built in a flash. What started as a pool of more than 5,000 images was eventually pared down to the handful of curated collections you’ll find in the app.

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A Euphoria // UV look: a teal bob and a zipped leather dress in front of hot pink neon rings.
A Canonical Queens look: a black strapless gown with a long train and a full afro, on a flat green ground.
An Afterglow look: a crimson beaded gown and auburn waves in a red velvet salon.
A Haute Haus look: a copper satin mermaid gown with opera gloves, photographed in a raw concrete colonnade.
A Euphoria // UV look: candyfloss curls and a liquid silver dress cut through by a blue neon beam.
A Haute Haus look: a tiered teal tulle ball gown with sheer sleeves, shot in a concrete courtyard.
A Canonical Queens look: a tall blue updo and a monochrome zebra gown against a flat cyan ground.
A Ground Control look: a silver and mint flight suit with a rocket headdress and a smoking ray gun.
An Afterglow look: an embroidered emerald suit and finger waves in a red-lit drawing room.
An Afterglow look: a white feathered gown beside a lit pool under a full moon, holding a sparkler.
A Haute Haus look: a cream feathered gown with a ruffled train against pale concrete.
A Ground Control look: a silver flight suit and a bubble helmet over a platinum bouffant, ray gun in hand.

iPhone app 02

StraightPic

A gay little tool for making crooked photos straight again.

Drop four handles on anything that should be square — a building, a doorway, a painting on a wall — and StraightPic fixes the perspective. Saves at full resolution, Live Photos included.

Download StraightPic Scan to installStraightPic on the App Store

Artist statement:

My husband is an architect and I always have to ask him to square up and straighten my photos because I can never do it and the default iPhone tools are piss poor.

And so, we built this app to be exactly what we wanted out of a straightener: simple UI, precise controls, and 0% quality loss when you save.

We thought it would be kind of funny to style this app that’s all about being straight, and make it a little gay.

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The StraightPic editor on an iPhone: a photograph of a leaning stone museum building with four rainbow-ringed handles marking a quadrilateral on its wall, a row of Vertical, Horizontal and Perspective tools with the active tab in a rainbow gradient, and a rainbow-gradient Straighten button.
Set the linePlace the polygon on a clear distortion.
The same photograph in StraightPic after correction: the stone building now stands upright and square to the frame, with a rainbow-gradient Save as New Live Photo button below.
Snap to attentionWatch it straighten up right quick.

About the studio

Artists with day jobs, shipping apps.

ElevatorBeat is a small Portland art collective. We’ve always wanted to make apps but never had the patience to learn to code. AI changed that. Now we sketch, build and release iPhone apps between Slack messages, with the care we’d give any other creative work.

Some apps start with a problem we want solved: the iPhone’s built-in straightener is weak, so we made StraightPic. Others start with a question: what would I look like as a drag queen? That one became Dragify.

Apps come first, but they won’t be the only thing here. Narrative and film experiments are on the way.

The studio's observation lounge: a wall of curved brass-framed glass looking out over red desert mesas and a lit pool, a crescent moon high in the evening sky, a curved leather banquette in the foreground.
A low glass pavilion and its elevator shaft in flat morning light, pale blue sky above a wide sand plain and distant grey mountains.

The exterior

Not everything succeeds.

This AI-generated “ElevatorBeat” house is a hazy failure. It’s fine as a placeholder for now. The tinkering will continue.

The pavilion and its elevator shaft seen from far out on the plain at night, alone under an enormous rising moon, with a rocket's vapour trail crossing the rust-coloured sky.

The observation deck

Two apps so far. More on the way.

Dragify and StraightPic are both on the App Store now. Whatever catches our attention next becomes the next one.

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