Now

This is our dog, Milly. She's a huge softie, so friendly, and a pinch pitiful

This now page is a running log of what’s going on in my life. Sometimes short and sweet is perfect!

Projects

Starting a brand-new project titled gen.em.otion: A local, self-made generative image model trained exclusively on every piece of art I’ve ever made and the emotional stories that go with them. It won’t be available to the public, but I plan on demoing it lots and showing it in gallery shows. (Don’t you worry, this will not be the way I make art going forward. I’ll still emotionally labor over it by hand lol)
Adding new features to Prolific—currently working on the “Certified Fine Art” feature for storing, referencing, and editing entries where each entry serves as a single piece of “fine art” I made and am selling
Running the Emotional by Design store is one of my life’s dreams. I’ve been building it slowly on Shopify and want to soon bring on more vendors, start building my social presence, and setup some pop-up markets!
My next zine, The Journey North, is getting closer to being done. It’s a little different than my other zines as it’s almost entirely poetry. So hyped for you to see it!
Working hard on bash scripts to help aid backups of my cloud and local servers, daily-driver laptop, and certain cloud platforms. I'm trying to get to a 3-2-1 backup plan but need to setup some infrastructure first
Looking into a new analytics tool for this website and other sites/apps I make. I want to get away from G00gle's tool and use something open source

Recently I’ve been gently dipping my toes into using LLMs (first ChatGPT but I've decided I like Claude more) for helping me with things like preparing lunches and breaking down steps for building my shop in addition to working on gen.em.otion (Listen I know LLMs and this AI bubble/boom are touchy topics. I write more about my thoughts and relationship with AI tools on the gen.em.otion project page)
Anxiously awaiting Brandi Carlile's next album and listening to "A War With Time" on repeat

Sadly the best pair of glasses I've ever owned broke, but I've ordered new ones from Zenni Optical and I'm really interested in how they'll look. Their mixed-reality try-on tool is both cool and needs work
Coming up soon is another sick zine fest! I’ll be tabling at Midwest Queer + Trans Zine Fest on October 18 and 19! It runs from noon to 5 PM on both days and will be held at Open Book here in Minneapolis
We moved into a new townhome apartment in Minneapolis featuring gorgeous dark wood trim, lots of built-ins, and beautiful natural light! However the unpacking is a whole other story... yuck... (Also! We have the most lovely neighbors!)

Last updated: October 11^th, 2025