now

this is a dated snapshot of whatever currently has my attention, borrowed from the /now idea. it gets to change whenever the answer does. the slower-moving parts live in about, where they should still make sense after these ones expire

last updated from San Francisco, US

  1. what has your attention right now?
  2. right now right now?
  3. let's say these days
  4. much better

a couple of months off

November and December with very few responsibilities, time to travel, and room to see what i want to make

i recently left Clerk, after almost two and a half years. i'm happy with what we built together. i'll have more to say about those years soon

i'm heading through Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand. November and December are a sabbatical: roughly two months with very few responsibilities, mostly spent traveling

i want to give more time to the creative things i've been wanting to explore. filming the trip, learning more about editing and color grading, and writing more. i want to see what develops when i have time to keep trying

making films

taking the camera along, then spending time with the footage and learning how to turn what i filmed into something worth keeping

i've already made two transition videos. on this trip, i'd like to take that further and make films about the places i visit. there's a lot i want to learn about what to film, what to leave out, and how it all fits together in the edit

i'd be happy to come home with films from the trip. for now, i want enough room to experiment without deciding in advance exactly what each one needs to become

i've been up to a few things!

the last few weeks of activity. GitHub can count contributions, but remains unhelpfully silent about whether any of them were a good idea

away from the editor

Mandarin, Wong Kar-wai movies, photography, and music are still here too, alongside the things i want to try on the trip
  • in progress: watch every Wong Kar-wai movie
  • in progress: have a full conversation in Mandarin without translating first
  • not started: make and print a photo book documenting a place i care about

music moves faster. it follows me through most of the rest, changing the speed or mood of whatever is already happening. apparently a few songs have been doing most of the work

what's been on repeat

the 6 tracks i've returned to most over the last few months. no defense will be provided, but Spotify has made sure the evidence is available anyway

the songs will probably change first. the ideas i am not working on have been around much longer and seem perfectly happy to keep waiting

not now

a few old ideas that became real, plus the ones still waiting without a deadline or any reason to pretend otherwise

i keep these written down because forgetting an idea and deciding not to start it yet are different things. an empty bracket means exactly what it says

  • complete: spend months building a framework from scratch
  • complete: turn a joke into a real project
  • not started: make something heavy
  • not started: play one song on piano from beginning to end
  • not started: build something hardware related

this page is supposed to expire. if the date starts looking suspicious, please bother me on x before i decide it is still recent enough