Writing

Sculpting a Narrative

May 04, 2023

Intuitively editing generated texts

Created for Reading and Writing Electronic Text, Allison Parrish || Github Repository My previous experiments have focused on using the…

Noting the Details

April 08, 2023

for Adjacent No. 10, Ecoscope

I wrote a piece for ITP’s online journal, Adjacent. Published March 2023. Notes becomes an archive of your lost words, of all the moments…

Field Notes ~ SFMOMA

February 28, 2023

Lights & Sound

Conversation Pieces Conversation Pieces is an exhibition of modern and contemporary furniture whose forms and ideas incline them towards a…

Thesis ~ Spring Update

February 20, 2023

In which things change, again.

Welcome back, everyone. We’re in the swing of the new semester, and things have been progressing. Prototypes V1 Over the break I took the…

Resonance in Light

January 29, 2023

Gamelatrons at Heron Arts

I spent about 45 minutes wandering a single room, listening to the ringing bells, mesmerized by droplets of light and cast shadows. This…

Thesis ~ Paper

December 24, 2022

Attention is a very powerful thing. What do we pay attention to? How do we pay attention to it? Does our attention change the nature of that…

Readings ~ Community Casting

December 21, 2022

Not a Weekly Wrapup

I intended for these to be a weekly wrapup, but I’ve found myself faced with the fact that in order to do that I’d have to have: ample time…

Field Notes ~ NOWISWHENWEARE(the stars)

December 03, 2022

An experience by Andrew Schneider

I went to this with Julia Lu and Riven (Spencer) Ratanavanh for the afternoon show. Andrew Schneider is, as per usual, a very careful…

Field Notes ~ Theaster Gates

November 20, 2022

Young Lords and Their Traces

Last Friday I went to see the Theaster Gates exhibition at the New Museum, and found myself thinking about objecthood as portal to memory…

Weeklong Lookback

November 20, 2022

Things I’ve been reading, thinking about, reflections on the week.

Media Collection Didn’t have the mental energy to engage with all of the media for my classes this week … Material Metaphors - Candice Lin…

Fusion360 → Illustrator → BantamTools

November 15, 2022

An SVG workflow tutorial

Note: This tutorial is written in Nov 2022 and reflects the software as such. This is a 2D SVG tutorial, and does not address 3D or GCODE…

Thesis ~ Prototypes

November 14, 2022

What is a prototype? A prototype is something that answers a question, tests something out. ~ Pedro G. C. de Oliveira This week I did a few…

Field Notes ~ Transverse Orientation

November 12, 2022

Reflections on Transverse Orientation by Dimitris Papaioannou

I have woken from a fever dream. I have sat for an hour and 45 minutes watching men run naked in joy and agony. I have been entranced by a…

Readings ~ Attention and Memory

November 01, 2022

Naomieh Joven, Ocan Vuong, Charlie Tyrell, Fabiola Ferrero

I’m struck by the idea of attention. What do we pay attention to, and how does it change that thing? Our experience of that thing? Using…

Thesis ~ Initial Interviews

November 01, 2022

The beginning of a pipeline and collecting thoughts

Things I did this week for thesis: Set up an interviewing pipeline for folks living outside their parental/heritage culture, sent out a call…

Unreal and Experience Prototyping

December 21, 2021

A Hide and Seek Shrine

A test in experience prototyping using Unreal. While the majority of my interest lies in the creation of real-world physical installations…

Hypercinema - Listening & Hearing

September 08, 2021

Exploring the psychoacoustic and physical phoenomena of sound

What is hearing? What is listening? The Sound of Yellow (full audio available here) This piece brought me in with a warm, bright feeling…

Gatsby Post Generation

April 19, 2020

Simple bash scripting to generate Gatsby blog posts

In a classic case of ignoring XKCD’s advice, I threw together a simple script to generate Gatsby blog posts files. I’m sure other generating…

Twilio for Door Intercoms

November 12, 2019

Renters, woe no more.

Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash Long story short, the apartment building I moved into has a rather old intercom, and doesn’t support…

Tip of the Tongue 006

October 23, 2017

Lost Time and a poem about Aftermath

TOTT — A snippet of what I’ve been thinking about, pockets of content for bite-sized consumption, not quite big enough to be pieces of their…

Tip of the Tongue 005

October 13, 2017

Distraction, Game Tourism, and Recommended Reads

TOTT — A snippet of what I’ve been thinking about, pockets of content for bite-sized consumption, not quite big enough to be pieces of their…

Tip of the Tongue 004

September 26, 2017

Good Decisions, The Root of Knowledge, and more

TOTT — A snippet of what I’ve been thinking about, pockets of content for bite-sized consumption, not quite big enough to be pieces of their…

Tip of the Tongue 003

May 29, 2017

Minimalism, Personality

What is TOTT? A (hopefully) weekly snippet of what I’ve been thinking about, pockets of content for bite-sized consumption, not quite big…

Tip of the Tongue 002

May 07, 2017

Nerddom, Observance

What is TOTT? A (hopefully) weekly snippet of what I’ve been thinking about, pockets of content for bite-sized consumption, not quite big…

Tip of the Tongue 001

March 30, 2017

Being Asian American, Precision, and Habits

What is TOTT? A (hopefully) weekly snippet of what I’ve been thinking about, pockets of content for bite-sized consumption, not quite big…

DevOops

January 23, 2017

Where's OpenGL?

In a moment of command-blindness today, I managed to delete my entire repo of developing projects. No harm, of course — they were all git…

Stop Being the Intern

January 03, 2017

Make your summer count

By this point, the first round of fresh-faced CS students have signed their internship offers. Others are still biting nails, waiting for…