a campfire jam at the intersection of art, music & technology
Dragging Rectangles (2017)
I’m excavating a series of old essays from a defunct blog that feel pertinent to current conversations in design and artificial intelligence This essay was first shared on August 07, 2017Since the introduction of the Mac, and the Adobe-Quark-DTP worldview that followed, computer-based design tooling has largely revolved around dragging rectangles. Want to insert a photo? Drag a rectangle. Want to change the width of your columns or gutters? Drag a bunch of rectangles. Want to take a screen de...
Dragging Rectangles (2017)
I’m excavating a series of old essays from a defunct blog that feel pertinent to current conversations in design and artificial intelligence This essay was first shared on August 07, 2017Since the introduction of the Mac, and the Adobe-Quark-DTP worldview that followed, computer-based design tooling has largely revolved around dragging rectangles. Want to insert a photo? Drag a rectangle. Want to change the width of your columns or gutters? Drag a bunch of rectangles. Want to take a screen de...
A Perfect Circle
NFT In the winter I tripped, fell down a rabbit hole, and unexpectedly found myself in some of the most exciting social circles I can remember. I’ve been in technology for over a decade at this point: long enough to have once been wide-eyed and optimistic, to have spent many years wandering through a period of alienation, and to have seen the light once more. In every direction I turn I see kind, generous, collaborative, conscientious, visionary geniuses. Somehow I tricked them into being my ...
A Perfect Circle
NFT In the winter I tripped, fell down a rabbit hole, and unexpectedly found myself in some of the most exciting social circles I can remember. I’ve been in technology for over a decade at this point: long enough to have once been wide-eyed and optimistic, to have spent many years wandering through a period of alienation, and to have seen the light once more. In every direction I turn I see kind, generous, collaborative, conscientious, visionary geniuses. Somehow I tricked them into being my ...
Crafting Cohesive & Collaborative Spatial Social Software for Patrons' Permanent Pondering
Token #3110 A few weeks ago, in between watching talks at Figma Config, my roommate & I were reminiscing about the “good old days” of design conferences that we had independently frequented in Europe. I was due to give my talk the next day and was in the process of rewriting the entire thing while trying to rethink the metaphysical format of what a “talk” even was & how that should really manifest. Conferences are weird: at their most surface level, they’re ostensibly just paying a bunch of m...
Crafting Cohesive & Collaborative Spatial Social Software for Patrons' Permanent Pondering
Token #3110 A few weeks ago, in between watching talks at Figma Config, my roommate & I were reminiscing about the “good old days” of design conferences that we had independently frequented in Europe. I was due to give my talk the next day and was in the process of rewriting the entire thing while trying to rethink the metaphysical format of what a “talk” even was & how that should really manifest. Conferences are weird: at their most surface level, they’re ostensibly just paying a bunch of m...
Why I am optimistic again
Token #3101 When I became disenchanted with technology in the spring of 2018, it shattered the mythology that I had spent my 20s immersed in. Technology was extremely meaningful to me: a curious & super-powered primitive to allow us to explore the depths of the collective unconscious by skillfully interfacing human & machine. And yet I found myself in San Francisco: supposedly the global center of innovation, caught day-to-day in the mundanity of a large corporation & doing anything but inven...
Why I am optimistic again
Token #3101 When I became disenchanted with technology in the spring of 2018, it shattered the mythology that I had spent my 20s immersed in. Technology was extremely meaningful to me: a curious & super-powered primitive to allow us to explore the depths of the collective unconscious by skillfully interfacing human & machine. And yet I found myself in San Francisco: supposedly the global center of innovation, caught day-to-day in the mundanity of a large corporation & doing anything but inven...
Divine Multimedia Transmissions 0001
Divine Multimedia Transmissions 0001 is a stream-of-consciousness verbal essay about creativity, interdependence & self-expression as a spiritual practice; performed with a live soundtrack & visuals Minted on Zora under the full moon in Virgo, February 02021 It was primarily designed as a spoken word audio-visual experience. I invite you to set aside 9 minutes and watch it full-screen. You might enjoy using headphones or your favorite speakers. To hear sound, hit the 'mute' icon in ...
Divine Multimedia Transmissions 0001
Divine Multimedia Transmissions 0001 is a stream-of-consciousness verbal essay about creativity, interdependence & self-expression as a spiritual practice; performed with a live soundtrack & visuals Minted on Zora under the full moon in Virgo, February 02021 It was primarily designed as a spoken word audio-visual experience. I invite you to set aside 9 minutes and watch it full-screen. You might enjoy using headphones or your favorite speakers. To hear sound, hit the 'mute' icon in ...
