brazilian zouk
learning to lead and follow brazilian partner dance after a foray into tango and a few years of fusion partner dance.
i think in systems and make lists for fun. probably have three half-baked ideas I'm excited about right now and a fourth one forming. away from the keyboard i enjoy partner dancing, intricately planning the next trip or expedition, or going deep down a rabbit hole I didn't see coming. I love learning things and broadening my perspectives. If you want to collaborate on something, feel free to hit me up.
skills i'm currently learning
brazilian zouk
learning to lead and follow brazilian partner dance after a foray into tango and a few years of fusion partner dance.
part 107 remote pilot certification
finally making way towards studying for the faa part 107 exam for drone operations, something i've been meaning to do for a few years.
things i want to build
starting 2026 amongst a group of friends, instead of making new years resolutions for ourselves, we made them for each other. following this is a year-long journey of doing sometimes hard and sometimes unexpected things, and holding one-another accountable. inspired by moxie marlinspike's year of challenges.
developing an incubator where games can be developed where animal ethics and perspectives are taken into account within game design, mechanics, and narrative. working within a project incubator group within sentient futures.
experiments in how other species sense light, sound, vibrations, magnetism, and chemical trails, and what we'd need to build (or experience) to get an honest glimpse. Ideas include video's in the perspective of an animal, vibrational art installations with real recordings of vibrations in nature, and more.
a project with a friend. collecting life's perfect recipes. not just food, but any process someone has repeated enough times to get exactly right: a morning routine, a packing method, a way to move through the world that just works.
take something written for piano or orchestra and get playable, idiomatic notation for your instrument: range, articulation, and "still sounds like the piece."
collect images, colors, and references with friends in one slow space, with fewer feeds, more "look at this texture" and shared taste.
real-world puzzle quests you walk through with a team: the kind of hybrid physical-digital rooms that shouldn't require a flight to one of a handful of cities.
document fluorescence and patterns humans barely see: part art project, part excuse to wander greenhouses and trails with a black light and patience.
daytime: big pots, refillable cups, long tables where strangers become regulars. night: same room, lower light, cider and the easy kind of conversation.
drop in a city or a free afternoon and get small, specific outings: not the bucket-list trip, the hour that still feels like you left the routine.
little projects
released twelve stamped postcards into the world to move from hand to hand, hoping serendipitous connections would show up. a social experiment that began with a clear purpose and slowly became a different kind of serendipity than i expected.