2025.03
- Completed setup and renovation of my darkroom at Kyojima Studio with proper organization, light-sealing, and equipment installation.
- Preparing for Project Roam launch—announcement of what it is and when, coming soon.
- Resumed development of Soma.app and Synapse.app—my note-taking software ecosystem that will integrate into Unbound Notebook System.
- Advanced Project Manus by installing a ceiling-mounted projector and camera system at the studio.
- Worked on the first Project Roam product during a trip to Ito.
- Developed dozens of films for upcoming Out of Memory Vol. 10.
- Michibiki Vol.2 exhibition at Jinny Street Gallery.
- Designed and released new Jinny ⨉ Erica Ward Hoodies on the Jinny Street Gallery Store.
- Got myself a maxed-out MacBook Pro M4 Max with all the memory to play with AI and Ollama.
- Started designing and brainstorming on Project Janus—a hybrid digital-film 6x9 camera.
- Revived the Jinny Street Gallery newsletter (subscribe here).
- Attended the Tokyo Art Fair 2025.
- Visited Katsumi Nishizawa’s show and a book launch.
- Celebrated the closing of NININI, a beloved local bar and friends of mine and Jinny Street Gallery.
- Added a few more books to the library—Todd Hido’s House Hunting and Outskirts and William Eggleston’s 2 1/4.
Looking at the list above, I’d call this month productive, though everything was blurred by the onset of my hay fever, which struck almost precisely at midnight on March 1.
Reviewing this list also reminded me how glad I am to have started keeping a daily journal back in early 2019. It’s become one of the best investments in my mental health. As someone with the memory of a goldfish, who constantly needs reminders, it’s reassuring that each month I can have an AI generate a summary of everything I’ve done. This monthly retrospective leaves me feeling calm and satisfied.
(The list above differs significantly from the summaries produced by AI, as I need to manually clean up project names, add relevant links, and remove personal items. However, I do rely extensively on AI for analyzing my journal entries and drafting initial monthly summaries like this one. I’ll be writing about how I combine these tools.)