Experiments
Long things, made of small videos. A language, a dog, a plot of land learning to water itself — none of them finish on a Tuesday, and none of them appear here until I've actually started. The bars measure how long each has been running; every dot is a video that came out of it.
2 running · longest 4 months
On the bench
Reading, lifting, an instrument, a district, a piece of software — all of it is the same thing done to different material. Filter by which material if you only came for one.
- SKILLLearning guitarStarting from nothing, on camera, to find out how long it actually takes to be able to play a song.JUN 20261 FILMOPEN
- SKILLLearning photographyNever having physically touched a camera, seven days to learn photography — manual mode on every photo, and the editing too.SEP 20262 FILMSOPEN
One-offs
Things worth filming once that never turned into a thread.
Prayogsala
4,197 verses, and no gemstone to sell youThree months transcribing the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra by hand, 2,103 rules pulled from it, and an engine that cites the verse behind every line.Sep 30, 2026
I read 4,197 Sanskrit verses so your astrologer can't lie to you.There are two kinds of astrology on the internet right now. One is a five dollar GPT wrapper that forwards your sun sign to a chatbot and prints whatever comes back.Sep 30, 2026
I quit my job at 28 and moved back to my village in Nepal.Six years as a software engineer. Then I turned 28, worked out what the next forty years looked like, and left.Sep 23, 2026
Prayogsala
Siddhartha, and the four people who paidSiddhartha leaves his father, Govinda, Kamala and his son, and ends up a ferryman with a little more knowledge. I read it at 28 and kept asking who paid for it.Jul 31, 2026
Prayogsala
The Alchemist, read from the crystal shopSantiago sold his sheep, got robbed in a country he could not speak in, and then spent a year cleaning crystal glass. That year is the part I am in now.Jun 4, 2026