Writing

• Apr 2, 2026
  5 min read

  The Game Boy Knew What It Was

  Going analog isn’t nostalgia. It’s exhaustion.

• Mar 26, 2026
  3 min read

  Cringe is the price of entry

  A painting from high school, still hanging on a wall. On the embarrassment that comes before anything worth making.

• Mar 22, 2026
  1 min read

  empty dream machine — tape 001

  Shot on a Sony Micro MV camcorder. Tokyo, fall. Trying to record something I couldn’t name.

• Mar 17, 2026
  11 min read

  The Mask Is Not The Lie

  Gorillaz were always fake. That was never the problem. The problem is what came after them — when Silicon Valley took the concept, removed the humans, and called it the future (AI).

• Mar 14, 2026
  1 min read

  Loving the ghost in the shell

  A poem about projections, loss, and what’s real when the light goes out

• Feb 18, 2026
  3 min read

  AI Won’t Kill Craft

  What the film-to-digital shift of the late ’90s teaches us about taste under abundance

• Jan 27, 2026
  2 min read

  TikTok Is a Reminder: Convenience Is a Dependency

  Every platform dependency is a bet — why renting tools, libraries, and reach always costs more than it seems

• Jan 1, 2026
  2 min read

  2026: Choosing Intentional Growth Over Certainty

  Double exposures, six years of undergrad, and what choosing the harder path taught me about growth

• Dec 27, 2025
  2 min read

  Tokyo, After Midnight

  Neon, 35mm, rain, and a song I couldn’t stop playing

• Dec 23, 2025
  4 min read

  Missing the Old Internet? It’s Still Alive, Just Harder to Find

  Neocities, web rings, and the indie web community keeping the spirit of GeoCities alive

• Dec 1, 2025
  3 min read

  Online authenticity and the changing self

  We change, but our online identities don’t. On personal brands, Instagram anxiety, and making room for fluidity

• Nov 11, 2025
  2 min read

  on your birthday

  On grief, the weight of it, and learning to sit with what can’t be undone

• Oct 21, 2025
  2 min read

  The Year Between Worlds

  Grief, impermanence, and what Japan taught me about the space between things.

• Sep 1, 2025
  3 min read

  Why I’m Using a PSP Camera in 2025

  In a world of flawless 4K and AI filters, I picked up a quirky 1.3MP PSP camera from 2006—and found freedom in its flaws.

• Aug 17, 2025
  1 min read

  summer's end - home, family, saying goodbye

  The end of a season of life — saying goodbye, closing chapters, and cresting the mountain

• Aug 10, 2025
  2 min read

  Not as big as you thought

  Blur, Stonehenge, the Lincoln Memorial, and the strange fragility of American mythology

• Jul 22, 2025
  1 min read

  💽 this is the day - the the

  An obsession with The The, warm summer nights, and photographs from Reykjavik

• Apr 15, 2025
  2 min read

  Olympus XA, Travel, and Wutang Clan

  Embracing a year of chaos and imperfection

• Mar 20, 2025
  2 min read

  your mind is not your friend

  It takes you by the hand and leaves you nowhere