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Category: Portfolio
Cat painting
This is a picture I painted of my cat Bianca, who died in 2023. I’d always wanted to try painting something photorealistic. Now I’ve done it and I never want to paint something photorealistic ever again. I wrote about the painting (and the cat) at some length, here. The painting took me about six years to finish, and the story is a weird mixture of how determined I can be to see something through while simultaneously not doing a goddamn thing to actually make progress. And yet, here she is.
Cakeburger
Cakeburger is/was a webcomic I made that was sporadically updated at best. I think the reason for inconsistency was twofold: I never quite figured out what I wanted it to be and I’m just not that good at making comics. There are some good ones there, and I’m going to leave the site up for now because I still think “Cakeburger” is a great name, some of the comics still make me chuckle, and there are ideas I’d like to tackle one day, but for now it’s probably best to think of this project as on permanent hiatus.
Visit Cakeburger and read the ancient comics
Bored Ape Painting Club
I’m not a developer and yet I keep running into things that need development, and yet I have no money to pay developers. It’s all very annoying. When I started work the wildly over-engineered Bird Hat Grift Club I found that rare thing, a dev who was happy to accept payment in painting form. So I painted a Bored Ape for him.
I haven’t made prints of this but if you want one for some reason, email me.
Luxon saga
I painted a picture of the New Zealand Prime Minister and tried to sell it on TradeMe. A few days before the auction ended it got banned. This caused a mini-Streisand and the painting got a lot of attention. I censored it and listed it on TradeMe again. This time it sold successfully. Together, the new owners and I collaborated to do a live gallery unveiling where I also uncensored the painting, restoring its original glorious form.
I didn’t make prints of this because I didn’t feel the world needed more of this painting in it. In the unlikely event that you want one, email me.
The Department of Biological Determinism
This is a short story set in the world of Harry Potter. Any questions sparked by that sentence, like “why?” and “no, seriously, after everything JKR has said and done… why?“ are, I’m afraid, best answered by reading the the fanfic. I know that the words “fanfic” and “Harry Potter” are enough to create a near-impenetrable resistance to clicking links or reading further, but seriously, if you like any of my work, just read:
The Department of Biological Determinism
(The story is hosted at Archive Of Our Own for not-getting-sued-into-oblivion reasons.)
Bird Hat Grift Club
Probably the weirdest, most involved, and least impactful project I’ve made, and yet I’m still oddly proud of the Bird Hat Grift Club, an anti-NFT NFT parody project that aimed to sell no NFTs at all and mostly succeeded.
I’m linking to the web archive as the actual site seems to have vanished from the internet and I’m debating the merits of bringing it back. It is probably better off dead.
Responsible AI Disclosure
My mate Walter Lim and I collaborated to create a draft framework based on Creative Commons for responsible AI disclosure. We reckon, if you’ve made something, it should be no skin off your nose to disclose how much AI was involved, right?
Right?
