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General

currently: collecting vintage tech ads, designing dream UI in Photoshop, trying to make my room look like a Windows Vista wallpaper.

loves: the smell of rain on hot asphalt, aquariums, airport terminals at dawn, fruit-shaped USB drives, translucency, satellite maps, Sony Ericsson phones, anything that glows with that specific teal-blue gradient.

hates: flat design, minimalism (it feels so empty), when the sky is just one boring shade of gray, the fact we don’t have hoverboards yet.

Music

Daft Punk (Discovery era), AIR, early 00s lounge/chillout compilations, Cassius, Stardust, anything from the Remember 2000s YouTube streams. Music that sounds like sleek, speeding through a tunnel in a concept car. Music for staring at animated wallpaper loops.

♫ secret shame: the McDonald’s “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle (2004 version) is an unironic bop.

♫ lyric that owns my heart: “Touch. I’ve been touched by her kindness. And it’s changing my world.” (it’s about a perfect OS, i’ve decided.)

Movies

• Spirited Away

· The Matrix 

· WALL-E 

· Minority Report 

·The Fifth Element

Television

Cartoon Network City era graphics. 📺 Toonami bumps. 📺 Discovery Channel “Future Is Here” promos circa 2007. 📺 The opening sequence of any late-90s/early-00s tech show. 📺 LOST (the Oceanic Airlines website was an ARG masterpiece). 📺 Futurama (not the show, the aesthetic of the title sequence).

i don’t just watch TV. i study it. i am archiving a feeling. a broadcast from a brighter timeline. ✧⁠⁠。⁠(⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)⁠。⁠⁠✧

Books

Aquarium only. And fish in it

Heroes

The Guy from Moon, the one who waters the plastic plants. Sam Lowry from Brazil, a bureaucrat who dreams in ducts. Stace from Until the End of the World, chasing a device that records dreams. Max Renn from Videodrome, who found a new flesh of broadcast signals. Toshirō from The Taste of Tea, who just wants to land a perfect backflip off the diving board. Penelope from Microcosmos, the tireless peacock beetle. Lars from Lars and the Real Girl, for his profound commitment to a unique reality. All of them, seekers of peculiar truths in a world slightly out of phase