- Music
- I keep coming back to music that feels tied to a place and a time. Atlanta rap, especially the 2015–2018 era, is a big part of that: Young Thug, Lil Keed, Uzi, Carti. I am interested in what happens when music becomes more than something you listen to. It becomes a timestamp. A room, a summer, a person, a version of yourself you can get back to for three minutes.
- Spaces
- I think about spatial design more than I expected to. How a room decides what happens in it before anyone speaks. Ceiling height, sightlines, where the light falls, how you are made to move through a place and where you are allowed to stop. A venue can make ten thousand strangers feel briefly like one thing, and a badly shaped room can keep fifty people from ever becoming a crowd. The design is doing that, not the occasion. I am not going to pretend I have a canon of favorite buildings, but I keep circling the question underneath it: why does one place make you want to stay and another make you want to leave, and how much of that was decided by someone on purpose?
- Design
- I like things that feel considered all the way through. Interfaces, websites, posters, objects, motion, typography. I am especially interested in the point where something can be technically complicated underneath and still feel simple when you touch it. More recently I have been drawn toward creative technology and generative work: TouchDesigner, Blender, data visualization, live visuals and installations. I like the idea that code can be material.
- Curiosity
- Outside of technical work, I have been trying to become less specialized in what I know. Art, history, philosophy, politics, culture. I like learning the context behind things I already find interesting, and then finding out that the context is usually much stranger than I expected.
- Nightlife
- I like the temporary nature of it. A room full of people who may never meet again, all responding to the same song, light or moment. I am interested in the social physics of it: who moves where, what makes people stay, how a crowd changes the energy of a room, why some nights become stories people keep telling. Maybe that is why I ended up measuring it, too.