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½ japanese american ½ chinese american artist

a sacramento area code in Nyc
Joined June 2012
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龜 is scanning a box of negatives from my dad & one of the rolls has snapshots from the 1983 Asian American Theater Company production of "Yellow Fever"
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logging back on to the elon platform to share that last month i beachcombed spaceX junk & had fun experimenting with cyanotype
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excited & grateful to be showing my 16mm direct animation “moon cycle” in brooklyn next week! reception on Friday, March 8! mononoawarefilm.com/oas_2024…
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Getting hyped inspecting prints for Celluloid Now! Check out these beauties on screen September 21-24. Clockwise from left: GUN (@mbillyou), Transcript (@es_zip), Moon Cycle (@justinetlai), Mobile Phone Studies No. 1-25 (@BarronSherer)
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so many good green giant ads but ofc this one is my fave (paper dress)
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wow I can’t believe heaven is in Minnesota (heaven being a comprehensive collection of vintage green giant junk)
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are you the asian dad in the water or the asian mom on the shore?
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everything reminds me of her
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Barbie dream splicer
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Barbie scale splicer
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can’t believe I’m here working in the library while @smashedmcdouble hiked to the M
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whoa, it's not every day that 16mm makes the local news! 😂 i'm in the newspaper here today missoulian.com/life-entertai…
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well, everyone knows blue tape is a disposable tool used in laser cutting…what this residency presupposes is… maybe it isn’t?
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my first ever 3D prints! 2 film core adapters (thank you sixteenmillimeter.com 😘🙏) and a prototype doohickey to help with drawing on 16mm…
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feeling self-conscious bc I wore a SETI tee to devils tower natl monument totally by accident
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very important clarification from the spam museum gift shop:
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oh man the Illinois Mitsuwa/Kinokuniya is like the NJ one except 500% more weebs in paradise. i feel so happy for them!!!
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