a slice of pizza, face down, on the floor of a bus, with empty blue seats above.

Leslie Liu

Welcome! This website is a sandwichboard advertising my latest notes, happenings about town, and other such miscellany. I am broadly interested in interfaces and their metaphors, advertising, and ecstatic experiences of / encounters with technology. Check out what I’ve been up to on my now page.

As of Late

Writing

Contact

A guestbook, if it strikes your fancy to leave a message.

Commonplace

I really want everyone to be themselves as much as they can, all the time. I want that from everyone because, in my mind, like you say, that’s the interesting part of the person. Expressing your inner self is sometimes confusing or might not fit certain preconceptions, so I really root for people to do it. Maybe that’s the extrovert in me talking — it might be a very daunting thought for people who are not comfortable with it. But I just desperately want to understand what your position is. To me that has a lot to do with being honest.

Malte Müller, It’s Not Business, It’s Personal

Colophon

Rewritten, thank God. This is self-contained HTML set in Fluxisch Else.

Why and how, ”self-contained?”

There has always been something charming about a self-contained website to me. This desire for the potential of expression made compact, travel-size, extends to other things: sketchbooks, pockets, forms and multipurpose containers of information and thought.

The infinite recomposability of a single HTML file is exciting to me: as I tab through different past site-selves there is something resonant in the ways I am trying to embody something more abstract, something aspirational: if my skeleton could be brutalist, exacting somehow... and there is the tireless rewriting of a self, of this presence, through the familiar tags and syntax, the usual sleight of hand by shoving things into <details>.

Thanks to Doriane for against (color contrast checker), as well as Pitscher, Low-tech Magazine, HTML Energy, and more* (amongst many more not listed) for their influence.

Coded from scratch and in constant revision.