███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ----- Pinned Area ----- For SF Bay Area Art Scene and current going ons: https://artboard.info/ ----- ******* ----- ----- Note Passing ----- ----- ******* ----- ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ 11.09.2026 Ive developed this weird intuition about when the N is coming by my house - it’s always delayed in the mornings so the every 30m means nothing and like i dont check the times i just kinda show up and it usually comes within a minute. I can also tell by the sound of the train from my office if it’s going east or west. The city is all fog - the vibes are immaculate. Im constantly breaking buttons on my clothes?? I spent a bunch of time perfecting the technique to use the sewing machine for buttons the last few days, does anyone else have this issue??? Big wedding in Yosemite this weekend - going to be a great party and we hardly know any of the other guests. This is my go to line when I meet new people in this setting (happy day + alcohol), after meeting, after niceities, when I feel the lull in conversation - it's about to be weirdly quite, or the conversation naturally dies out after they tell me what a cool job they have, or how much money they make, or how they just started rock climbing. I look them in the eye and I tell them they can tell me anything, they're never going to see me again, I have no connection to their real life, tell me something fucking insane, tell me about your boss you hate, tell me about the person you want to be with - then I offer up something insane in my life and 9/10 times they will and we'll have a great time. Maybe its the true blue honesty I offer up - or the opportunity to be true and blue themselves, but I've done this for years ever since high school and it never has failed me. One example: Yesterday I drop off my suit for dry cleaning and as I leave 2 guys stop me and compliment my outfit. This has never happened to me in my life. I've been buying clothes (and spending money) for the first time ever really. I shake both of their hands and let them know I once dressed like absolute shit because I was poor and a ranchhand and the loneliness of a rural lifestlye has finally left me. That only through a collective shame of seeing people like them (they were well dressed too), and being around community am I able to be as great as I am today. They tell me they're also from a rural lifestyle and agree, its lonely and then we all agree that yes, its better to be well dressed and happy in a city together. They tell me crazy shit about their childhoods being persecuted. We talk for almost 15 minutes. I shake their hands goodbye and I'll never seem them again. 11.06.2026 update: 0.5. A best friend texts me a photo of a half drunk mountain dew with a stickie note of her name on it - "i've never not finished a mountain dew". I work a lot. 1. We will look at wedding venues we cant afford this weekend and laugh about the numbers they give us - the drive will be beautiful and the beach is nearby. 2. A renewed sense of zen overtakes me everyday - unbothered and drinking many liters of water everyday 3. I have 3 bicycles now : here are my new excuses to ride them 3a. exercise 3b. seeing the world around me in a semi interactable way, perfect for wanting to be apart of the world but not quite ready to have 15min small talk chat with a neighbor 3c. picking up a burrito for this woman I love so much in record time, i can do it in 5m 32s, roundtrip if I order ahead. 4. Im really not caring about movies anymore??? maybe just recent ones - I used to watch 2-4 movies a week and i love flicks but ??? 5. drawing has been fun again - im slipping into old mfa brain habits of looking for deeper and better meaning to the work but it comes out better when I let it rip. 10.19.2026 Two weeks in Corsica going to the beach everyday and practicing French. What a great time with mads. Our skin is so soft from constant contact with the sand. Thrown back into reality I sit and fly to New York while still jet lagged from EU time to do an intensive week of work and use by big MFA brain to do some design thinking. Everything can be so good when you don’t try so hard and just let it all wash over you - bad things, good things, it’s good to be alive! 9.30.2026 I write this from a train. The graffiti in marseille is pretty good. Everything slow - I drink 4-5 smalls coffees a day and i have strange dreams involving cigarettes that don’t decrease when you inhale. The kid in front of me has entertained himself for 6 hours without a screen or complaint. Admirable and inspirational. 9.25.2026 A work break to go to Corsica this month. Need the salt and water. Bought new shirt and pants. 9.11.2026 Staying near SVA where madeleine went to school - I keep sending her photos of her old dorm building when I walk by it to a work event or something and then I text her "u up?" - she writes back something funny everytime to my really lame overused bit. School must have just started - theres a bunch of new college students and their parents in the same hotel im staying in, and they're all so excited or proud or a combination of both and its nice to overhear a parent hug their kid and say "Ok, have a great semester, thanks for letting me buy you dinner!" before sending them off to figure it out. After work I walk back to the hotel and on the streets I see the art kids flirt and take up space and smoke cigarettes and they say really funny shit. Funny to think this was where mads was before I even knew her! My own parent turned 70 yesterday and I call him to let him know I am in a part of the city he lived in for awhile. He just laughs and laughs on the phone probably reminiscing about being 20 in new york. I tell him I'll bring him a hat and he asks me to keep a look out for the number 70 and send me a photo if i see it in store signage or something. 9.10.2026 New York is great. 8.30.2026 Met a friend I've known only on the internet in person for the first time last night. Writing that sentence I'm realizing how confusing and specific english can be. We've known eachother since we were both 10 or 11 years old - we met on a forum for a Lego building video game and have been friends ever since, sending eachother music and playing games etc. We have a whole little crew of guys from that time - we've all kept up with eachother for the last 20ish years. He came to SF from Tokyo to DJ at a show and it was absolutely beautiful seeing him in his element and meeting his crew - couldn't stop smiling. Sometimes, everything fits into place and can be so good and beautiful. 8.25.2026 things i like: writing long emails seeing people deep in thought while riding train to work when the just for fun piece of art you were making suddenly becomes good falling asleep to a movie, wake up to a blue screen buy good figs for my wife 08.19.2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_effect Working hard for someone tricking yourself into thinking you like them, that's why you work so hard. "Maintaining consistency in [your] self-concept." is a really mfa brain triggering idea. Your corporate persona as working for you - identifying what is rewarding you at the company vs how you reward yourself for aligning to your own values in everyday life. How are you looking at success? To me right now, success means the ability to be curious and try things without the pressure of monetizing it. Even if its a small portion of the day, success means maximizing that time and increasing it, minute by minute, everyday. 08.18.2026 Visiting college friends in Sonoma county. Their son makes small lego sculptures from loose pieces, small little monoliths and shapes. He calls them robots and assigns names and personalities to them. It's really nice to step back and see really simple and honest pieces of expression from a 5 year old. https://imgur.com/a/rNKrgfv I met both his parents in the art department at college and they've sectioned off a large part of their kitchen as an art studio for him. We did a studio visit - he sat me down and showed me his tools - we did a lot of bits comparing his robots to Joaquín Torres-García sculptures. It sounds like we're making fun of it but we took it very seriously, fully attentive as he explains his methods. A work trip brings me to NY in September and I think I can swing some time to see some of the Torres-García sculptures in person at the MET. Really loving the 3D for the first time in my life. Need to make some robots. 08.14.2026 3 days off I've done a lot of chores. Lots of errands. All my machines running well. Can't find a specific power cord and its driving me to spring clean while I search for it - wacom why! soundtrack remembering 2019 and all these good ones: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hYUx45apqa0AEJah9HiYN?si=e3bdd94c6af344e7