Nick Suda「須田・ニック」

@nicksuda.com

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Me wearing a mask inside of Bueller's Bagels in West LA.
A photo pointed down at the handlebars of a e-bike at the curb of a street in Los Angeles.
Me in a black windbreaker, black and green 404 Media tank top, browline glasses, and a black hat commemorating the centennial of the West LA Buddhist Temple.
A two page spread of various stickers and cutout bits of paper. Some of it comes from old instruction manuals from the HTC Vive from 2016, some of it comes from stickers that came from the PUMA Sticker Club including some "Free Palestine" and "Chinga La Migra"-type stuff, and some of it is the cut out instructions from the packaging of some pepper spray.
A flyer generated with ChatGPT, advertising a "Men's Appreciation Sabbath" (red flag) at a nearby church.
Various graphics from the manuals of a VR Cover for an HTC Vive, the instruction manual for installing the lighthouses, and random bits of HTC / Vive logo branding, set alongside graphics of historical Little Tokyo and a sticker from the ACLU that reads "They've gotta get past us".
A crudely-taped over button identifying myself as part of the Fireworks Crew so that I could move freely about the premises.
Jingles gives everyone a safety lecture on how to safely stage the product in the launching tube.
The back of the ignition terminal before it was rewired for this year's show. A glorious rat's nest of wires.
An operator listens to cues and fires off fireworks using a terminal that sets pins hot to quickmatch ignition of commercial fireworks. Various fireworks are launched from cannons at the ground level, creating tons of burning smoke paper scrap.
A freestanding wheeled prop display advertising Osaka Ohsho outside of the restaurant. Aluminum chopsticks that say "Osaka Ohsho" are gripping a whole branded gyoza on top of a red-branded base.
A sign outside of a restaurant advertising specialty crepes that says "Kinda Hungry? This Thing Goes Crazy"
An open variety pack of various fine mochi confectionaries from Fugetsu-Do in Little Tokyo sits on top of a plastic grocery bag on a table.
The top of the front of the Otomisan building, advertising tempura, sushi, sukiyaki and udon in stylized hiragana.
A City of LA placard commemorating the site of The Finale Club in the former neighborhood of Bronzeville, which is what Little Tokyo was in 1946 during the internment years. The placard reads "The Finale Club - 230 ½ East First Street - Little Tokyo/Bronzeville - Where Jazz greats Charlie Parker and Miles Davis performed together in 1946."
A front-facing view of a kokeshi doll depicting a tengu. A small painting of a mountain (ostensibly Fuji) adorns the front of the base, along with additional writing along ~1.5"-long pointed posts that extend from the base.
A scrapbook page containing the "IPO report" artifacts from a receipt printer that was handed to me at the end of Tender Claws' latest project "Body Proxy."
Three different size shot glasses next to a bottle of sake.
A promotional photo from Sawtelle Sake of people clanking two cans together with dramatic spray flying off.
A detached HTC Vive headset with a Deluxe Audio Strap and Wireless Kit antenna sits on a recliner next to a single lighthouse and a "wand" controller.
An iPhone screen capture of a spatial music platform called Odio featuring a set of layers I have been playing with in the hopes of sharing a complete piece of content for the platform eventually. Features a field recording of a boiler room from the outside exhaust vent spectrally resynthesized, a field recording of rainfall hitting a plexiglass skylight, and a line-in recording of a Casio SK-1 loop.
A flythru of a gaussian splat of a depth extraction from an iPhone photo of a hallway of decorated keycaps that leads to a large statue installation in the entryway of the campus to Riot Games.
A zoomed-in side view of a SHARP depth extraction of a photo of a ki'i, a Hawaiian god.
A spit of al pastor meat, diligently attended to by a man who works at Brothers Cousins Tacos.
An affirmative modal from the PC Health Check app on Windows 10, finally confirming that all the conditions are met in order for me to be able to upgrade, which Microsoft is monopolistically forcing me to do, very likely in violation of antitrust law.
Me, my mom, and my dog Juneau, when my parents came to visit LA in June of 2018.
Large chunks of a Faizah Malik for CD11 pamphlet cut up into scraps that fit in a two-page spread of my personal scrapbook.
A perspective view of a SHARP extraction of a photo of my grandparents.
A view of a SHARP depth extrapolation of a picture of a Great Blue Heron that I took in Playa Vista.
Rotated view of a crude crop around a SHARP depth extraction of a single transparent png frame of John Travolta turning around.
Side view of a splat done with a crude SHARP pass on green screen video of the confused John Travolta Pulp Fiction meme, exported from LichtFeld Studio.
A Faizah Malik for LA CD11 election sign taped to the window of a sliding patio door.
A pan-through of a gaussian splat of a rusty car that has been turned into an art installation where its windows have been replaced with stained glass murals and there is a yellow light illuminating the inside, located inside of a coffee shop that features cool old cars inside of it.
Me seating something inside my PC case which I've been continuously upgrading since 2016.
A winning bingo sheet sits on a paper-covered table with a $120 victory pot and a button that says "2026 VJCC BINGO WINNER".
Diamanda Galás - La Serpenta Canta (2003) The Dillinger Escape Plan with Mike Patton - Irony is a Dead Scene (2002) VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater (1998) Killing Joke - S/T reissue (2005) John Zorn - Filmworks XIII Invitation to a Suicide (2002)
A tiny little Sony Xperia Android phone, purchased in Berlin in Summer 2013, used by me while I lived there. Shown here booting up for the first time in 13 years.
Six glass bottles of Club-Mate, a German soda made of carbonated Yerba Mate tea, sit on a dining table. The bottle furthest-away from the camera has visible wear lines around it from being recycled.
An excerpt from the Giant Robot book containing a list of recommended important mid-century Jamaican music records produced by Chinese Jamaican figures. Recommendations include titles by Byron Lee, Augustus Pablo, the Chin Family, etc.
A two-aisle steel and plexiglass barrier that constrains entry to the aisle for alcohol and basic drugstore goods, seen from the back side, at a Ralphs grocery store in West LA.
Link driving the Master Sword into the Secret Stone mounted into the forehead of Ganondorf in Demon Dragon form.
A huge pile of palm tree bits laying on the curb on a residential street in Los Angeles.
An open computer case sits on a dining table covered by a blanket. Also visible is the removed GPU and the new, boxed motherboard and CPU.