On my phone I keep a note for the year, a place to stash ideas and inspirations, words that I like, things to look up for later. I built a shortcut that allows me to jot things down and automatically add them to the note, with an empty line separating it.
I don't pretend to remember all of what these words mean, but they meant something to me at the time, enough to write them down.
This is 2024.
# 2024 Bin
happy new year
storytelling weaving baskets
lamination as a signifier of importance
Lamination as a time stopper, preservation
Laminated things as name tags, placards
the hands of my mother
(materials: tools: what created them)
symbols of labor
a digital essence you have to tend daily
or it will die
lines drawn on the floor
how we naturally choreograph
i can't get to freedom without you
education, agitation, and organizing
double stacked apple box shelf
crochet garland of leaves
hang the post cards in the hall
hang the painting on the wall
a corner for reading and give it light
the only way to keep the object from becoming junk is to keep its context close by
what does it look like to label, attach the stories of all your objects
i cannot say that i understood what i have just seen
but i can say
that i am struck
as when hit with the light of day from the dark
A little website where every time you click, it walks a character, but if you click too fast, the character slips
your practice as a diary
what is mediated through your platforms? your work, practice, ideas, opinions?
why is everything a Cold War
a palimpsest off chance encounters
what the hell is a global citizen
Traveling unburdened is the greatest luxury
the work of an artist is to stand in awe and wonder
three texts, clicking changes the three
the rain sometimes cleans, sometimes washes away, sometimes drums, sometimes just fucking gets everything soggy
as a note: they SUCK
i wonder if so many "holy" or "sacred" objects in white culture are socially acceptable to be parodied because they live in organizations of power; there is no way to NOT "punch up" when making fun of them
The goal of so much white Christian culture has been historically to spread, proliferate, and conquer. Essentially, to share these values symbols and religions, as far and wide as possible. If the goal, historically, has been to spread and share the symbols, what does that mean about cultural appropriation? Is it possible for minority culture to culturally appropriate like Christian culture if the whole point for the last many years has been for it to spread?
jesus saves but jesus is a pinterest web bookmark app
PCB dollhouse
Lightning bug PCB
Should i use AI for this?
"I dunno, I'm a computer. I shouldn't make decisions about anything."
pcb that an led noodle is meant to wrap around
the city is full of young trees
what are the aesthetics of accessibility
inflatable tampon
rules of grounding
1. when your train goes above ground, look out the window
2. no airpods when walking outside
3. look up
wheredrop
puffer vests that inflate when your valuation goes up
puffer vests that inflate more when you're near another startup founder
airdrop for news you don't wanna say out loud
"i'm gay"
"i'm sorry your mom died"
besotted by the version of Hamlet starring Andrew Scott
for the first time, understanding the full meaning of the play
a newspaper for your friends
a newsletter of everyone's updates
Anu ~ instead of aunt or uncle
ahnu
numa
hello
i want studio mates
people in the workshop that are doing their own thing and building, making, sharing, inspiring
i want a space to hang my work, try new things, let the works in process breathe
fix it day at the shops
stitching together the past and the future
taipei and san francisco
LA and NY
positional qr code
qr codes that are not qr codes
custom wet paper embossing, embossing animations
How much energy does it take for me to doomscroll?
the use of ai in the theme parks space is actually extremely compelling in creating realistic, individual interactions with a character
in a makerspace community, every gathering should have a set of legos.
we need a box of something to break the ice, to let you idly build, to get into the "create" mindset without breaking out the big tools
how do you hold a space? a physical one? a digital one?
Look up when there's a view
Sit in the sun
Airpods away
Look for change
Leave your laptop at work
pop up rules
make something move, sing, talk, critique
with paper, trash, wood
in 29 minutes, in an hour, in three days
Yesterday I: Went to work. Taught two classes, helped a bunch of students out with their work, graded a series of worksheets, helped clean up after lunch, returned a dress, learned how to put in contacts, submitted my jumpsuit measurements, made dinner, handed off work to our attendants,
The day before I don’t even remember. I must have done something; Paul was gone. I cleaned the house, did laundry, emptied the dishwasher, tidied the living room.
Today I: brought a typewriter to school. Built a soldering station. Tidied and cleaned up my desk, replaced the ink in a marker, got us both coffee. Helped some students understand circuits, scheduled some things, emptied the shredding stuff. Used the table saw. Watered my plants.
Brain wall with section for main project, side project, ideas on ice
A camera that takes images and sends them to a storage place elsewhere, like a box at home. You can only see the images when you go to that place, "retrieve" the images, and print them out.
how can you store pins on the lid of an altoids box
can I make a built-in pin storage there
mere mortals: the machinery of mankind
seas of people
what things around us have a memory? a digital one? a physical one?
praxis salon
craft night but specifically for makers
studio share lab
turn my space into your studio
just for an evening
share what you're excited about and what you want to learn
a community lab, a make sesh, a place to cross pollinate skills and ideas
raku firing using your childhood journals, drawings, artifacts
a built in cabinet with room for a record player
charm and harm sit quietly on the floorboards next to each other
pretending to be strangers
poetic computation like making a pillow out of metal
phone autocorrect that changed "I" to "AI"
"AI went for a walk today"
"AI made a sandwich for lunch"
"AI felt pretty sad about the state of the world"
repair, reuse, reprogram
do objects generally cool down and warm up at the same rate?
including your children in the "how was your day?" conversation, from before they can talk
making sure to give your children independent space so they can have updates on their own
Forbidden area stairway to nowhere, insulation that is a staircase into another floor that clearly should not be able to exist
how do you build your positivity in as a default? how do you shape your space that way? what's your upward-looking invite?
"Share one moment of satisfaction from this weekend"
"tell me the highlight of your morning"
TCC tough conversation club
reuse, repair, reprogram
"I'm going on airplane mode for the next X hours"
a stamp, a sigil, for yourself that we use to stamp your projects and notebook and so-on
at the end of the year, we use these to stamp your project, and you get to take it back with you as a symbol of your readiness to sign the work you've made
ending on moments of satisfaction, revelation, connection
go forth and enjoy the day, the celebration is just beginning
do people clap at the end of movies, of flights, because they desire a sense of closure and squeeze-release?
In the age of instant gratification, there's not much that's bound by time anymore. You don't wait for your favorite tv show to come on the air, you don't feel lucky when you catch your favorite song on the radio.
Instead, things are money bound. Some are both time and money bound, like going to a concert or a touring artist. But your books, your movies, your music ... it's money and not time.
kei sekimachi - weaving traditions
"the weaver's weaver"
ship of theseus, book
gumball machine but inside each gumball is a new gender for you
i want to mark my key ring with "2024"
start marking your tools with the year you got them
promise to stop for you when you stop to photograph the roses
items made of materials that remove their utility
Touch grass, keyboard, and mouse
you can tell how long a bus driver has been driving by the way they handle the intersection of Church and 16th. The left turn isn't particularly sharp, but the power rails lean to the right, and threaten to detach from every bus that makes its way underneath.
I once overheard two bus drivers talking about this intersection as an enemy. To attack it, they said, was to drive straight forward at the pole, to almost hit it, and to weave the other direction at the last minute, as if to trick the cables into thinking you weren't going to turn at all.
miniature architecture designs with balloons bulging out
experience the day with me
but the day is a record
i text you, with photos, from that day, like i'm sending you things in the moment
a recipe book called inheritance
translation flattens subtlety
stowaways
cutouts of normal objects with figures hidden in them
lego backdrops for photoshoots
train headlights breaching the curve of the tunnel
I'm watching a man walk around with threaten his arm. He thrusts it skyward and wings flutter the threats and others into the sky.
How much can you say with stillness?
meet the makers product realization lab d school stanford
a single trigger that sets off all sorts of bells around the room
30 days of applications
art installation that's an anonymized list of all the times you got screwed over
pugging as an action
where you slowly optimize and evolve something into uselessness
example: the american pickup truck, cybertruck, the potato?,
pugification as the "taming" of something naturally or wildly useful, then further changing it and evolving it to its own detriment
what if i'm losing my artistic engagement
what is handwritten
what do i actually value
i’ve been afraid to tell the story of this ring for years. It’s there, right in front of me, but I can’t seem to tell it.
a tribute to lost memories and items with their full descriptions
weaving together our lives
tying together
how do you adorn each other
wealth
happiness
collaboration
give and take
our first date was perfect without trying
and that says everything
there's a poem we love called when love arrives
the clouds are spreading like a spine across the sky
zen cane wrapped objects that aren't rocks
technology
old phones
How related are the terms, Mr. and master?
A website that is a digital archive of all the things we own and their backstories
i'm back on unintentional shrines
san francisco city football club fan club
sfcfcfc
an sfcfcfc scarf that just keeps being fc.
an sfcfcfc fan website that side scrolls forever through the fcs
i need time and space to do things
make things
experiment
actually be a fucking artist
not take care of this goddamn house
Leia Chang, Professional
where are you going?
somewhere else
I return once again to the idea of projecting my work on my own face.
Accountable
Beholden to
Responsible for
How can you be these things to yourself
And your art
And your designs for greatness
weaving the patterns of a song so you can feel it
where each type of weave is a note
a login system where you first choose your username out of all the usernames and then you choose your password out of all the passwords
digital dna
what can you vacuum seal that's unexpected?
when you use the web browser you are the web browser
humans together are on average much better at guessing things than individuals. if you average all the guesses of an audience, you get within 5% of a true value
high wedge heels with a false bottom to sneak things into places
glizzyglides
fruitiger aero
book for sound
a book of audio
resting - what does it mean to let your phone rest
feedback site with Julia
the nest LA
tell me one question you have right now
generated text woven into textile
who prompts the prompter
perfect days movie
after yang movie
maddie design notes celeste
didi movie
belle - movie
the feeling of shedding
like contacts 13 hours in
an idea too stale for movement
bird id
merlin bird id
Building a desire path through your digital technology
Daily little blessings
Today is a good day to slow down
max's garage press
good bad band name tomato fight
my favorite thing about the computer history museum is how little they planned for people wanting to touch everything
i think i've seen like 40 do not touch signs
https://www.fibremood.com/en/patterns/950-khloe-dress
electrinos
circuties
electronpics
fischer price comfort dongle
baby's first dongle
baby's first computer
absurdly beautiful dongles and other such objects
instillusion
installation illusion
who have you been catching
"we share a heartbeat"
-> what does ai share of us
we share words, a tongue?
data is a spine
an instagram story meant to be experienced from far away
naurtier
soft launch monthly publication ~ zine
where you send things that are almost ready
website that shows you how far away you are from your friends in dollar amounts (flights) or other metrics
can you use a pen plotter to deposit like ... film development chemicals? Like can you only develop parts of film or exposed images? how could that work? lol
embroidered pattern, dragged across a scanner bed, re-embroidered in its new form
usbee - it's a usb stick that's a bee but the stinger is the usb
shaving your own undercut simulator
blackjack hair cutting
a poem that only reveals itself as you read it out loud
animatronic butterflies trapped inside an opaque-ish containor
grid meld zine
grid experiment zine
what holds the essence of spring? How can we harness it in the home?
clock that visually shows hours of the day that have light
and just show you where you are in those hours

A little thing that installs in this triangle, and is an NFC to a
- Personal playlist for this spot?
- A gathering of dog photos?
recuperation, reinvesting discarded items with new energy and purpose.
we share a dumb tongue made of stone
assembly hobbies versus creation hobbies
rosas danst rosas
i should make an exhibit around precision, accuracy, and failure rate
Visual hook, eye-catching. An image of an eyeball with a fish hook through it.
The fictionalized journal where all of the writings with negative sentiment or wiped out. You see only blank spaces basically
what if the 3d printer was printing your handwriting
in the air
your words droop over each other
local memory like an etch a sketch
dayjobmaxxing, says a friend
but what else
health, exercise, friend, art
fey trap mushroom circle around a toilet
break the art into workshop and workbook level sales
i don't know the language of the internet
a book whose pages you toss in the air and read as you pick them up
a book that's actually a series of webpages linking to each other, and they change over time
afraid of the unfamiliar
make it familiar
go
Beautiful things can happen when you spend time with nature
white wall gallery but it's all white walls that move around
twelve goose heads
peek up through patches
of grass and weeds
of concrete bollards
there's a lake
on the other side of the freeway
once they would have walked to
now altogether
they take flight