2025.04
- Made significant progress on Soma.app
- Participated in Tokyo Zine Fest with Lorenzo to promote Jinny Street Gallery
- Published The Flâneur No. 10: Gear, Gear, Gear‑Freeze!
- Created a film rugged storage container for film project that holds exactly 40 rolls (matching my Unbound Notebook System template)
- Developed and scanned all film for Out of Memory Vol. 10, began culling and sequencing for the book
- Added llms.txt to ttvl.co to help LLMs better understand the website
- Successfully set up and tested my new Jobo CPE-3 film processor
- Led an Artist Walk for Pavel Sipkin’s exhibition Hundred Views of Edo Konbini at Jinny Street Gallery
- Spent three days at RDC 2025 music festival – DJ Nobu’s set was mezmerizing
- Experienced a two-day retreat at James Turrell’s House of Light in Niigata
- Made the decision to drop Project Janus—6x9 3D-printed camera—to focus more on art creation
- Enhanced Toto.app, my personal macOS menu bar app, with improved journal summarization capabilities.
Soma.app is becoming much more than just a paper-to-digital note scanner app. I’ve named this new project it spawned Synapse. It seems like I’m building a note-taking app that can surface insights by simply searching the entire ‘vault’ of notes. I’m unsure whether to start with an Obsidian plug-in or a brand new macOS app. My disdain for multi-platform apps might push me towards the latter, but an Obsidian plug-in could be a good start since I’ve already implemented a command line version of Synapse.
During the month, I also caught up with my film backlog—everything in my red folder, marked “To Scan / Needs Attention,” is now developed and scanned as working files. Work on the 10th(!) volume of Out of Memory has begun.