About the book
Jammes Luckett is a multi-creative and software developer who serves as the artistic director of Art Mechanix, the creative studio she founded in 1998. Having taught herself to code multimedia projects on a Commodore 64 at the age of nine, Luckett has spent her career working concurrently across tech and the arts.
Alongside composing award-winning and nominated original scores and songs for film and television, Jammes is an award-winning filmmaker, animator, creative conceptor, and copywriter, earning recognition including the American Advertising Awards (ADDYs). Concurrently, she has built web and software solutions, custom management systems (including for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, and OpenCart), and technical documentation for clients ranging from small arts and entertainment entities to enterprise media brands. Clients, collaborators, and partners have included Comcast dx, Kleidon & Associates, and ASM International. In Luckett’s most personal projects, she prides herself on building beautiful, highly functional software with inclusive, empowering features for those commonly overlooked by mainstream technology.
Art Mechanix Timeline
Music, Coding, and Curious Tinkering
A Gen X latchkey childhood spent at the intersection of music and early tech in the analog-to-digital transition era. The creative groundwork for Art Mechanix began through hands-on experimentation: hours spent learning to write and record songs with DIY instruments, tinkering with musical toys, hacking consumer electronics, and programming multimedia projects on a Commodore 64. One of Luckett’s artistic concept renderings was selected by the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) for display on buses throughout the area.
First Professional Work
Jammes was selected as an MC for a fundraiser in downtown Columbus, OH, sponsored by The Gap, attended by the city’s movers and shakers. By the following year, she relocated to Los Angeles and, shortly thereafter, won a first-place cash prize for her promotional logo design for the Los Angeles Free Clinic.
Birth of Poperratic
Luckett begins Alien Tempo Experiment 13, which would later evolve into Poperratic. Over the next decade, releases dozens of DIY cassette albums, EPs and singles in the underground scene of Los Angeles and performs at iconic venues such as Whisky-a-Go-Go, The Coconut Teaszer, Dizzy Debby, Al’s Bar, Mr. T’s Bowl, The Room, Studio 56, and The Mint. Also selected to perform at the International Pop Overthrow music festival.
Coding in the Emerging Web
Begins self-teaching HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript. Launches the earliest web platforms and foundational web presence for what would become Art Mechanix.
Commercial Studio Debut and Founding of GLR
In partnership with AJ Lambert’s NYC-based Glimmerfed Records, records and releases the EP, “Live! From the Roller Derby!”, co-produced by Lambert and Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Hole, Shonen Knife). The EP received full rotation on influential KXLU Los Angeles.
Establishes a DIY imprint, Go Little Records (GLR) and its companion zine called ATE Ball. They serve as a primary sandbox for early physical and digital asset distribution, independent production workflows, and multimedia experimentation.
First Pro Web and Software Dev Clients
Begins taking on clients for web and software development. Handcoded HTML multimedia websites along with scaling, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex enterprise content management systems (CMS), learning management systems (LMS), and eCommerce web environments for a diverse roster of clients, but primarily independents and small businesses in arts, entertainment, and media. Platforms will eventually span across Moveable Type, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and OpenCart. Around 2011, begins to specialize in WordPress as it becomes the industry standard.
Launching a Cult Classic
Serves as the composer and music supervisor for the feature film May (Lionsgate, 2003). Concurrently spearheaded the film’s initial interactive web strategy and digital marketing assets before it was picked up for distribution. Built the early online community with concepts leveraging the film’s tagline, “If you can’t find a friend, make one.”
This directly helped position the film for a Sundance Film Festival selection, major studio distribution, critical acclaim, worldwide distribution, and cult status. The original materials and community concepts are officially adopted by Lionsgate for the film’s commercial release.
GLR becomes ARMX
Officially transitions Go Little Records operations under the Art Mechanix banner, uniting music composition, audio engineering, and interactive web production into a single cohesive creative studio.
The Woods
Serves as composer for the additional score and original songs for The Woods (MGM/UA/Sony). Also designs and deploys the pre-release web presence to drive direct audience awareness, with concepts and assets later integrated by the studio for the official theatrical rollout.
Blue Like You
Contributes original music production to Blue Like You (Microsoft / Safran Digital). Also created the short’s poster distributed to attendees of San Diego ComiCon and the project’s gaming console assets. The production was the first episodic OTT streaming content delivered natively on the Xbox 360 platform.
First Film Recognition and Open Source Contribution
An animated music video for “Android In Love” selected by the Protoclip Festival International du Clip, a music video festival in Paris.
Engineers and releases an open-source custom payment utility module bridging OpenCart functionality into the WordPress ecosystem.
Solutions Provider for macOS app
Utilizes the Cocoa-based MGTemplateEngine language to engineer custom, on-demand dynamic invoicing themes for users of Razor Ant Software’s ProfitTrain Mac OS platform. Develops robust developer documentation to expand template features, extending core app functionality for power users through HTML, CSS, and PHP.
Indie Game Launch
Designs and programs The Current Wars, an interactive, collector-style 2D video game centered around Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe lab. Authors the game logic, performs multi-character voiceovers, structures the mechanical assets, and creates documentation.
Web Audio API Engineering
Explores Web Audio API to build a variety of music/audio tools. Projects include a browser-native, mouse-controlled digital theremin app using custom JavaScript and the HTML5 Web Audio API to track visual grid mouseovers and map them directly to real-time audio pitch frequencies, as well as a low-frequency oscillator (LFO) with custom GUI featuring real-time interactive dials to adjust signal modulation, wave properties, and audio output parameters dynamically in the browser.
Enterprise Infrastructure at Comcast dx
Contracted to join the internal dx (Data Science Customer Experience) product team at Comcast headquarters. Co-manages all technical aspects, code maintenance, and performance optimization for an internal knowledge base serving hundreds of corporate data scientists, software engineers, and analysts running global operations.
Also leads weekly virtual technical synchronizations with department administrators and subject matter experts. Utilizes SQL databases to isolate, interpret, and resolve data bottlenecks, translating user feedback into technical documentation and code features to streamline developer tool access.
High-Volume Data Migration for ASM International
Contracted by ASM International (the world’s largest materials science association) to assist a large-scale web migration project. Helped with structural modernization, new content creation, and optimization of a 30,000+ page enterprise website into a modern WordPress and Elementor ecosystem. Tracks, resolves, and escalates code bugs via an agile issue matrix. Authors a comprehensive, original internal brand style guide to govern future content quality control and leads live educational tutorial sessions to train staff on managing advanced layout components.
Recognition for Invitation and Zero Hero
Luckett receives international film festival selections, awards, and nominations for two film projects: The microshort “Invitation” was nominated for Best Mystery/Suspense Thriller from Toronto’s AltFF Alternative Film Festival, and the animated music video for “Zero Hero” received selections and nods from multiple festivals and events such as Newark International Film Festival, Metakansk, Art All Night Trenton, and London’s Portobello Festival.
Expansion of Software Projects
Began expanding the next-gen software development toolset while integrating Art Mechanix’s penchant for combining curiosity, empathy, and problem-solving. Three standouts using the latest technologies and strong design principles are Kontendor, World in Your Eyes, and Langanaut being prepared for release and/or partnership.
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Super simple customization
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Pixel-perfect patterns
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Blazing fast by default
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