“Time is the moving image of eternity.”

Plato, Timaeus

Why this website and why now?

The initial concept for this site began gestating around 2015 — a timeline of events stretching back into the past and off into the future. You're dropped right into the middle of it at the present moment, and faced with a choice about where to go from there. It seemed like a cool, somewhat experimental interface for users to engage with, and it embodied an obsession around time itself that had been developing within me.

Countdown timers began appearing in the visuals for my performances during this period, using a system built in collaboration with Anton Marini aka vade. And years before this, in 2011, a ghostly recording reading out a sequence of numbers that represented dates of significant global events was woven throughout my performance at Blip Festival.

But if theres one thing about time its that there never seems to be enough of it, so the site was worked on bit by bit in the little moments that I could find for it, in between life and other projects. All the while, more experiences that deepened my fascination with time continued accumulating — a message from the past received in the perfect set and setting, a trip to a lake on the edge of forever with a group of friends, and the eery temporal disintegration that accompanied the global covid pandemic.

“Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.”

Timothy Morton, Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality

Then in 2023 my daughter was born and my entire perception of life began rapidly evolving. Nothing else will change your perception of reality like becoming a parent, and I began to think about the site as a catalogue of a life from beginning to end, an archival record of music, art, and friendships that I could leave my daughter with after I was gone.

Having a child also brings you back to your own childhood, and I've thought a lot about how excited I used to be about technology, its creative applications, and the seemingly infinite potential it had to improve the world. The tech utopianism of the 90s and 2000s hit hard at a very developmentally significant part of my life.

Now we all know how differently things played out. The Silicon Valley crowd was full of shit — capitalism sucked the life and promise out of it all, chummed it up and turned it into the mixed-reality hellscape we inhabit today. Mass surveillance, AI slop, influencer culture, brain rot, algorithmic radicalization, and subscriptions instead of ownership just to name a few aspects of it.

But there are still plenty of freaks out there keeping those old dreams alive — demosceners, hackers, the chiptune set, and artists that are driven to experiment and create with technology rather than being concerned with maximizing profits. I built this site because I wanted to reclaim some of those lost feelings of hope around technology and create a HOME for myself on the web, not just continue to exist in a cubicle in someone else's content factory.

Blogging in 2026 feels bizarrely old-timey, but it's nice to have somewhere to express thoughts and ideas that don't need to be crammed into bite-sized clickbait one-liners. It may even allow me to fully transition off of social media eventually.

There are no comments on the blog, but if you're ever compelled to have a dialogue about anything you see here I'd encourage you to get in contact via another archaic telecommunications medium — email.

Materials will continually be added to the timeline archive as I unearth them from a stack of old hard drives that date back to my teen years. If you're in possession of any photos, videos, audio recordings, or other relics that might be suitable for inclusion, please reach out.

Enjoy exploring ✌️🫠