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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

i launched my redesigned website! view it (and sign my guestbook) at

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wrote a comic this week❤️‍🩹 (1/10)

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dudes will be like “cooking something crazy” and then it’s just a website

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jackie

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1 year

something is intense/scary/activating about right now between the collapse of internet community platforms as we know it and... whatever all the AI stuff is indicating. this comic (and perhaps all of my work) is a love letter to a better world for us + for technology. ty.

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 months

prototyping a little drag-and-drop tool for making scrollable web comics and then exporting them to HTML 🫨

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@jackieis_online

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a user-unfriendly todos app for an unproductive day

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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7 minutes in heaven

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

when i went home for break i found a self-portrait painting i did in high school inspired by "post-internet art"– before i learned anything about making websites. i thought it was fitting to do a reinterpretation of it using javascript and selfies

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

an AI could never replace the type of art work i do. what are you gonna do, give it complex trauma from intergenerational chinese-american experience so the only way to survive is to self-affirm through autobiographical work? honestly i'd like to see that

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 months

did you know you can trauma dump in HTML and then it's "net art"

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

if i taught a ~6 part class (open to anyone) on reimagining computing technology for your past self from a place of healing—walking through a speculative design process together, would you sign up?? would you pay a small fee??? asking for a friend (the friend is me)

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

@PrettyGoodJames thank you so much! what can you say, i love an anime metaphor ✨

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jackie

@jackieis_online

22 days

small comic on time, numbness, and living lately 😳🤥😔 (1/8)

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

i dream of being a cereal website historian... might write a visual essay later this year 🥲

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jackie

@jackieis_online

11 months

i've released a demo of my CD-ROM memoir game! Chao Bing: A Read-Only Memory Experience is an interactive memoir in the style of a 90s CD-ROM storybook game. It's about memory, time, and transformation–and sort of about scallion pancakes too.

Chao Bing by jackie liu

A Read-Only Memory Experience. Play in your browser

jackieisonline.itch.io

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

in case it's interesting or helpful: i got anti-raise!🎉🥳 i was very fortunate to be able to negotiate w/ my work to reduce down to 30 hr, ~3.5 days/weeks (and take a 25% pay cut) i'll spend the rest of my week for dedicated art-work time and being a human (🧵 continues..)

jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

anyone out there a founding designer at a startup (or some comparable level of responsibility) but also building a personal creative practice that you want to take seriously? i want to talk. for lack of better word i'm feeling crazy

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 years

I've been working on an interactive web comic and it's finally live! read it here: it's about losing phone photos, rehashing my early experience at MIT, and general weirdness around getting older, memories, and the passage of time 😳😔🥀

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jackie

@jackieis_online

29 days

ok something i've been thinking about tech world "design engineer" discourse... people have been solo designing + coding software forever! it can be personal and expressive and not just about optimizing your labor! what if we had an imagination outside of the tech industry..

Nathalie Lawhead

@alienmelon

29 days

new post! Solo-Devs and Risk-Takers (An Artistic Exploration of Experimental Tools) "Exploring experimental digital work will always be very new by principle that this is an ever growing possibility space where anyone’s wildest dreams can be made true…”

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jackie

@jackieis_online

4 months

i made a short, silly (& sad) game boy game for @FreePlayExhibit , opening next week! it is the world's most boring dating sim combined with a narrative about expectations, queerness, and the possibility of dreaming for more.. go fishin' at 🐟🎣

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 month

big week of seismic events, solar eclipses, shadow work, realigning with the Core Self, redesigning user onboarding to hit target metrics

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

preparing for a workshop on designing personal websites for an upcoming women in stem conference at harvard~*~ during my time in CS, i felt like resources and narratives around careers/presenting yourself professionally were low key soul-draining

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jackie

@jackieis_online

4 years

Excited to (finally) launch my tech/design/art zine shop at ! You can currently buy my "Making a Website" zine there, in both print and digital PDF formats. 📕💻 Physical zines will be shipped starting early November. 🍂

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 years

everuthing makes sense after understanding my art practice as a means to heal my inner child! in fact i feel like most people's creative work is about this, with varying degrees of consciousness and directness

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

thinking about how MIT takes 1000+ teens each year, gives them trauma from an incredibly impossible standard of what it means to be and do enough, tells them they can change the world, and pops them back out 4 years later to climb the ranks of industries

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

excited to participate! i'm planning a workshop called "I am Cringe but I am Free: Learn HTML and CSS with SpaceHey" we'll customize cringe SpaceHey (modern MySpace clone) profiles for ourselves & discuss nostalgia, identity, and what we want for the future of social media

Processing

@ProcessingOrg

1 year

What is CC Fest, Creative Coding Fest? Learn about this in-person and virtual event that welcomes students, educators, and others to learn together from the video below. And visit to see our upcoming events. #CCFestNYC #virtualCCFest

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jackie

@jackieis_online

10 days

obsessed with game boy manuals and making a zine for my fishin' game in the style of one... (taken from )

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 years

if I ever DJ again this is what i will roll up to the club with

𝖢𝖠𝖯𝖲𝖴𝖫𝖤◒𝖢𝖮𝖱𝖭𝖤𝖱

@CAPSULE_CORNER

2 years

💖SPECIAL RELEASE💖 Strawberry Fruit Computer USB Keychain by @sailorhg is now available as part of the celebration for her art show ‘while(fruit)’. ‘while(fruit)’ will be on display until late January 2022. 🍓

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 months

this was peak software design

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 month

@mathurahravi it's the ending to !

Chao Bing by jackie liu

A Read-Only Memory Experience. Play in your browser

jackieisonline.itch.io

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

here's the painting from 2014! it's been a long life since then. dunno what i have to say, other than i’m proud of high school me for being curious even if i didn’t know where i was going, and proud of adult me for fueling the curiosity of younger me along the way

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

sketching some cursors for my CD-ROM memoir

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

Pulled together my last 3 brain cells to plan "Neostalgic Computing", a class where we'll walk through a speculative design process to reimagine computing from a personal, retrospective place of healing! Tysm @hyperlink_a for providing the platform and support for this 💖

hyperlink.academy

@hyperlink_a

3 years

MORE NEW COURSES: 🕹️ neostalgic computing ➿ esoteric programming languages 🌐 neighborhood-scale cybernetic design 🌎 Indigenous worldviews + NEW COHORTS: 🎨 GUIs through art history 🏠 internet homesteading once again, browse em all here! —

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

art vs artist('s room)

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

i find this profoundly poetic.. and it crossed my mind last year to try to create something on flash despite (or because of?) its deprecation. what does it mean to fight to create and keep something alive and breathing once it's been deemed obsolete. i'm gonna cry

Museum of Screens

@MuseumOfScreens

1 year

It is amazing to see that three years after the official end of Flash, there are still new Flash games created. Plus, thoses game jams are great showcases of the progress being made on Flash emulation.

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

increasingly no longer feel like i need anyone's approval or permission in particular...i just wanna work on my little stuff because i really believe in it. sometimes i feel sad because it could have always been this way

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

to wrap up my Neostalgic Computing course at @hyperlink_a , my students and I came together to put our final projects in a clickable @figmadesign gallery!! excited to share it all with you here: 💖

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 months

thinking of turning fishin' game into a zine (gameboy instruction booklet)

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jackie

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room decoration game

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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crying at the google protest.. crying at columbia student protestors, crying at the cherry blossoms.. i want so much more from life and the world!! i am born to be a lover!!

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

sometimes i look at my website and i'm like.... damn that looks so tasty

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

my dream is to become silicon valley's nightmare

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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i am creating the world's first tamagotchi town @BrooklynBotanic crossover

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

today was the last session for the first cohort of my Neostalgic Computing class at @hyperlink_a !! so thankful to have met this lovely group of people and share space these past 6 weeks to play and dream together ✨ i'm excited to share what we all created!! stay tuned ✨

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jackie

@jackieis_online

11 months

can't imagine finding a job.. how am i going to find time for my 6 hours of ruminating and journaling a day

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jackie

@jackieis_online

5 months

photos from my reading/live performance/cooking show/un-launch party for my (forever-in-its-making) CD-ROM style memoir game, 2 weeks ago at @culturehub_org pc: @ericwleong

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

just held my first session for my first cohort of Neostalgic Computing with @hyperlink_a ✨ lots of gratitude to my students for signing up!!! hosting my own class from the ground up is nerve wracking but i'm so very excited to see what my students dream up of in 6 weeks 😲

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

now that i finally found a full time job, i'm looking forward to letting my website be its full expression of what it wants to be under a non-"zomg i have look employable to employers" lens

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jackie

@jackieis_online

10 months

waiting for the day i can be desired for my body and not my specific knowledge of web technologies

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jackie

@jackieis_online

6 months

my performance art debut 😳 turning my game into a performance about making a game.. December 15 in NYC! see you there!!

CultureHub

@culturehub_org

6 months

Save the date! On Friday December 15, 2023, at 7pm ET, we will present our Resident Artist Jackie Liu's work - Chao Bing: A Reading/Writing. For more info and to RSVP, follow the link:

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

if you're in NYC end of june, I'm going to speak onstage at @newinc 's DEMO festival on the 21st, about making a CD-ROM style memoir game i'll also be exhibiting it IRL along w/ my lovely Art & Code Cohort at @Dunkunsthalle )! come say hi 🥀 💞 tickets:

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

my new york hobby is ruining the ambiance of my neighborhood bars by showing up with my laptop to work on my memoir art-game and sobbing, all while witnessing white ppl go on awkward first dates

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

decided to do the #artvsartist2022 trend LOL i say "lol" because i feel like my work this year is not in the category of consistent polished visual outputs. it's taken the form of doing autobio comics to process difficult emotions... (cont)

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

planning, and practicing

jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

excited to participate! i'm planning a workshop called "I am Cringe but I am Free: Learn HTML and CSS with SpaceHey" we'll customize cringe SpaceHey (modern MySpace clone) profiles for ourselves & discuss nostalgia, identity, and what we want for the future of social media

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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when i was at MIT there were multimillion dollar tent gatherings to attract investors and now there are tent gatherings to divest... and i think that's beautiful!!!

MIT Coalition Against Apartheid

@mit_caa

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🔊 DISCLOSE, DIVEST, WE WILL NOT STOP WE WILL NOT REST 🇵🇸 The MIT students and workers have made their demands clear. We will remain on Kresge Lawn until MIT severs ties with the genocide in Gaza! 💪🏾

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jackie

@jackieis_online

4 years

i also wanted to follow up my zine with tangible next steps to actually learn the basics of building websites, so I created an interactive tutorial about building a '90s style under construction webpage: It's a WIP so feedback is always welcome 🙂

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jackie

@jackieis_online

10 months

deciding whether to go to a yoga class tonight or go to a park in bushwick to meet strangers and eat perpetual stew that's been simmering for 40 days

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 months

just did this but with the instagram app! (i am a twitter computer user)

ZOE AMIRA SLICK ✨

@zoeamira

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i have a phone shortcut set up that emails my representatives every time i open twitter and god damn do i open and close this app a lot

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

i rly want to help make the ideas that science & technology studies and new media art offer in deconstructing and reimagining computing systems more accessible, and not keep them siloed in highly academic and art-world contexts. i am going to work towards that

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jackie

@jackieis_online

9 months

starting to apply to product design jobs again and honestly when u strip away anxiety it's actually kind of fun and subversive... like oo i get a little thrill thinking about wasting 30 seconds of tech company's billable hours by sending them to my room decoration game portfolio

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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Andy Allen

@asallen

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Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?

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jackie

@jackieis_online

9 months

everyday i come out while applying to product design jobs

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 years

mini moodboard for my new site

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

hacking the @BrooklynBotanic cherry tracker to make all the trees bloom

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 months

shout out to @mathurahravi @Jhuang0804 for throwing a very cute & cozy personal computing hackathon where i started working on this!

mathurah

@mathurahravi

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after building scrollable web comics manually in the past, @jackieis_online built a tool to make scrollable webcomics with no code! (we're all hoping you release this to the world)

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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made a fuller animated intro for my CD rom game!

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jackie

@jackieis_online

11 months

drafting the cover for my cd rom memoir... it'll be like the game florence.. except i'm a real person

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jackie

@jackieis_online

4 years

So excited to get this shoutout by @shannonmattern !! 😊 We read your "Maintenance and Care" article in my NYU Experimental Humanities class - I'm definitely thinking about how this project can be an entryway for others into an ethos of care!

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

harvard as instagrammable experience 🥸

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 months

a comic that asks to be found

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 months

a navigation menu 🤥

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 years

a quick n vulnerable comic to start the new year! part artist statement, part... softcore erotic comic? lol (1/3)

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 years

all the programming/design skills i've acquired through my academic and professional experiences is culminating in making the ultimate room decoration game of my childhood dreams and i think that's beautiful

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

i worked on this for the past few months and built their web experience! probably one of the most in-depth, interactive web programming projects i've ever done 😮 thankful to have gotten a glimpse into the theater world and contribute to something so big !

McCarter Theatre Center

@mccarter

3 years

THE MANIC MONOLOGUES is live! This innovative, interactive, theatrical experience spotlights true stories submitted by resilient people across the world living with mental health challenges, performed by a celebrated cast of actors. #TheManicMonologues

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jackie

@jackieis_online

8 months

what is the best website youve seen and why is it the Hello Kitty Eva Air landing page

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

have you considered: emotionally-stable diffusion

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

ALSO i'll add that the only "AI art" i've done was a performance piece i did 4 years ago, using neural style transfer, where i "collaborated" with my childhood self to create drawings styled on my 12 year old self's anime art in real-time

a collaboration w/ my 12-year-old-self

Part of Shantell Martin's Drawing on Everything Class Performed at Museum of the Moving Image ITP NYU http://jackieis.online https://jackieis.online/projects/collaboration-with-12-year-old-self/ __...

vimeo.com

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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preparing slides for an artist talk / guest lecture

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jackie

@jackieis_online

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big night for me

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

i'm currently writing a memoir visual novel/video game and it's so difficult, labor intensive, emotionally draining–and that's what makes it so fucking worthwhile as long as i'm working in this mode all the GPT/AI hype just feels like noise. i cant be bothered

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 years

good morning twitter! every day i drag rectangles together on the computer

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

ok now that i have a 3.5 day work week and i no longer feel pressured to fill all my waking hours with making progress on my personal creative work, idk what to do at night what you all do after 9pm and before you sleep? i've already watched so many cruise ship tour videos

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jackie

@jackieis_online

4 months

really honored to have Fishin' for Average Caucasian Boyfriends in @FreePlayExhibit ! i'm still so floored by the level of detail put into all of the show if you back the kickstarter you can get a physical cartridge of my game among other goodies 🎣🫣

Free Play!

@FreePlayExhibit

4 months

our kickstarter is now LIVE! support Richmond, VA's first queer games exhibit!

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

anyone out there a founding designer at a startup (or some comparable level of responsibility) but also building a personal creative practice that you want to take seriously? i want to talk. for lack of better word i'm feeling crazy

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

my goal in 2023 is to make generative art: not necessarily generative in a procedural or algorithmic sense but generative in emotionally resonant, world-buildy, relational type of way 💕

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

NYC ! i'll be tabling at @wondervillenyc 's holiday market next sunday 💖 12/18 1-7pm!

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 months

first scrolly comic maker masterpiece 😭

Sabina

@theesabina

2 months

Had the honor of beta testing @jackieis_online 's scrolly comic maker! I illustrated my struggle of remembering that I have food at home. Check it out below 🌃 🍟

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jackie

@jackieis_online

4 months

the kickstarter supports all of the materials and time @moawko and the team have put into the exhibition... including (and not limited to) printing holographic game packaging and building GIANT GAME BOY

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jackie

@jackieis_online

2 years

happy halloween! i fear the passage of time. here's a quick comic (1/5)

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jackie

@jackieis_online

1 year

having an interesting time getting attacked by nazi twitter for a quick tweet of me affirming the value of art in my life... didn't think that would be so polarizing but here we are. thank you to the people in my life who are values aligned and building the same world

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jackie

@jackieis_online

3 months

when i get to the UI design i want to make it akin to @alienmelon 's electric zine maker 🥺 hand drawn interface elements....sound effects... the tool itself should feel like a comic