May 2026

Reading

A Sexual History of the Internet by Mindy Seu

I was fortunate enough to catch one of the first runs of the performance/lecture hybrid counterpart to this book two summers ago at HEART. Very happy to have the physical book. The mobilizing force in charge of internet infrastructure is, and always has been, perversion.

How to See Like a Machine by Trevor Paglan

The most recent release from Paglan on investigating what ‘vision’ looks like without a human eye, especially when most images are completely fabricated.

Working Women: The Appalling Uses and Abuses of the Feminine Form by Jessica Strang

I found this at a fantastic secondhand bookstore in SF (Et Al, Etc) for 10 dollars. The thesis of this book is really just to be a woman is to perform. On the cover that I have, it depicts a nutcracker with a woman who crushes shells between her thighs, which I would argue subverts that narrative.

Trevor Paglan & Holly Herndon in Conversation

This was such a refreshing dialogue in the midst of the ‘what does it mean to be an artist in the age of AI”-think-piece-pocalypse that we’re still in the thick of.

Backrooms and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

We've transposed the Gothic genre's ancestral sins and crumbling aristocracies onto the mundanity of fluorescent lighting and offices that remain empty after COVID era remote work.

Front Cam Reconsidered: The Micro-history of the Front-Facing Camera

2016 cakey makeup as ‘stage makeup’. Before the front camera, you took a picture of yourself. After it, you took a picture while looking at yourself.

Wearing

Leanne Huang Running Horses Hoodie

Eduard Muybridge core with lenticular appliqués that animate the gallops.

Teapot Sonder by Ode Ona

Hojicha tea & pink pepper that smells like a glass of warm, slightly bitter almond milk.

Chopova Lowena Yellow Guy Shirt

I found this unworn a a thrift store with the SSENSE tags still on.

Bliss Lace-up Sneakers by Rockfish Weatherwear

I used to wear a pair of jazz shoes that I bought from a dance equipment online shop that obviously weren’t meant to be worn outside. I loved the way they gave me full articulation of my feet. These fill the same void and are much more equipped for the elements.

Adoring

This massive collection of found grocery lists.

Children’s illustrations of the internet by Nesta.

“Younger children (aged six to eight) tend to draw “networks” of people, houses, clouds, and flowers. For these children, “the internet” seems to be something that floats in the air and connects things. As they get older, their relationship with apps and brands quickly becomes dominant. “The internet” gets diminished to icons that live on smartphones, tablets and computers.”

This mix by PLO Man, but basically any mix by PLO man.

Camera Roll

Heart shaped cliff at Sutro Baths.

Numbers on the side of the Internet Archive stage, which riff off of the idea of including notation to bible passages in a church (the Internet Archive is housed in a former cathedral).

The numbers represent HTTP status codes, with 200 = ‘OK’, 404 = ‘error and 451 = simultaneously representing ‘unavailable for legal reasons’ and the temperature at which the paper of a book spontaneously ignites when exposed to heat.

A dirty martini under a fake sunset at the Venetian, Las Vegas.

3pm nap with Goose, nearly a daily ritual.

A screenshot of eye tracking heat maps that I took looking at AI slop images of impossible knits, which I then converted into a knitting chart to knit myself.

As part of my work conference, I saw the Backstreet Boys at the Vegas Sphere and they were wearing head-to-toe Issey Miyake.