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archives and gratitude 3/18/25

i have spent a good amount of time trying to get the gallery page on this site looking semi presentable. not sure if i have too much of a natural talent for ui, but its coming along.

i keep being reminded of how great the people i share space with are. been listening to a lot of my friends' music recently and it has brought me so much joy and gratitude to get to share my time with these people. do me a favor and go listen to see you round sattelites by Clementine's Private Army. i'm going back to north carolina this coming saturday and im super excited to see my good friends and my dog too. hope to catch up on some reading while down south. current reads are the internet does not exist, a collection of writings published in E-Flux journal about the internet and computer culture. i also started reading the master and margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. so far its really kept my attention, though i struggle to keep track of all of the eastern european names.

prints made with receipt paper camera — self portraits in grids, birria in tarrytown, deodorant with sticker.

receipts and expanding ephemera cesspools 3/12/25

coolness when established upon social gravity is a toughie, but finding things neat is the coat rack i leave my hat on. how i mark my days. cause i remember what i was listening to when x event occured, finding doodles on my old notes restores my sense of self. what did i think was cool enough to draw on the side of my notes about jane eyre in AP Literature in high school? that type of thing means a lot more than i thought it ever would.

anywho... i've been really into collecting ephemera recently, taking pictures of things that stick out to me in day to day life. is that making memories or holding onto the past or neither? it doesn't really matter. anyway, i recently picked up a kids camera that prints onto printer paper (dont tell me to google the health ramifications of excessive contact with receipt paper). i was inspired by Karly Hartzman of Wednesday and her website prisondivorcebombshell.com to get the thing, and i'm glad i did. i've already taken portraits of my buddies that i cherish and am sure to collect a bunch of awesome photo memories this way. i think i'll start pasting them in my journal as a means to remember what i get up to.

cute monkey with grape 3/9/25

i dont really know what people do with blogs usually, but i'm using this as a public journaling/archival/mind-dump zone. I'm here at SUNY Purchase, working on this website has really been a joy for me, also an obsession. I hope people visit it and find something in it they like. I'm really quite happy with my your daily bread poem generator. It's a project I did for a new media class and it uses seeding to generate a new poem from a large array of poem bits I have written every single hour.