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sailor mercury
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i dove into a soft soap dispenser from 2003 🐟🐠🪸

(jk this is raja ampat 2025)
photo of a blue ocean scene with coral and lots of fish including 2 pennant coral fish
December 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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the back cover and front cover of the diving log book i’ve designed and riso printed! 🪸🐠
a risograph print of a manta, fish, and coral a risograph print of a turtle, coral banner fish, garden eels, and lots of coral
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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size comparison chart from wikipedia
a photo comparing orange variety sizes. text says “a sweet orange (largest), another variety of mikan, or mandarin orange (middling), and a kishu mikan (smallest)
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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if you’re looking for the perfect holiday card to send your favorite software engineer, look no further: my letter-pressed binary christmas tree card 🎄

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a pastel letter-pressed holiday card featuring a binary tree decorated with numbered ornaments, and a feminine person about to placing another ornament on the tree.
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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i’m awaiting his entrance in the new ranma 1/2 anime—i was born to cosplay him
mousse, a character from ranma 1/2, a man with bangs and long black hair, holding round glasses
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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i haven’t been able to find a cute scuba diving log book so i’m working on designing my own 🐢🪸🐠
drawing of ocean scene with coral, turtle, fish, and garden eels, and the text “dive log”
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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current manicure 💓
hand with mauve glittery nails holding a pink ipod mini
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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back from traveling and an injury, so the bubblesort storefront is open again!

78 gough st, sf
sat & sun
1-6pm
a shop with shelves of colorful zines and postcards and tables with pink and teal imacs and flower stools
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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not our halloween costumes, but @indirect.io and i got to see tokyo disneyland last week all decorated for halloween 🎃 (i’m dressed as stella lou, a tokyo disney sea character)
a giant pumpkin shaped like mickey mouse, and two people posing in front of it, one a femme with long black hair and a rabbit ears hat, rabbit bag, and lavender plaid vest and skirt, and one a man with short brown hair, a rain jacket, megaman t-shirt, and jeans.
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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as a huge muji fan, it was one of my dreams to stay at the muji hotel, and it was just as nice as i hoped it would be
me, a feminine person with long black hair, sitting on a window seat in a wood paneled room with a bed and bookshelves
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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today is the last day to see @shirleywu.studio’s and my interactive ceramics & data science art show at such as gallery in shimokitazawa, tokyo!
two walls of an art gallery with the title “ephemeral” and sakura, ginkgo, and maple shaped ceramics hanging with vertical chains of beads attached. the ceramics represent how much earlier or later the flowers bloomed or leaves’ colors changed compared to a 7 decade average
October 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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aw thank you so much! this is what the backs look like btw, and there are two nails holding up each piece via the holes! (also pictured, the nfc chip inside each ceramic haha)

i hope your wife’s show goes well, i can’t wait to see pics!
the backside of a ceramic maple leaf, with two hanging holes and another hole where an nfc chip has been inserted
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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a detailed photo of some of the ceramics
a gradient rated sakura, ginkgo, and maple leaf ceramic, with beads strung above and below each piece. a printed piece of washi paper indicates the decade of bloom and color change data these ceramics represent, 1999
October 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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i’m so proud of us!! @shirleywu.studio and i set up our collaboration art show at suchas gallery in 下北沢, tokyo which will run through 10/19!

it’s an interactive ceramics installation that shows how sakura bloom dates and maple & ginkgo color change dates have shifted over the past 7 decades
photo of the outside of a gallery space with the name on the awning “suchas gallery”, and a sign in the window that says “ephemeral” a ceramics installation on a wall with sakura, maple, and ginkgo leaf shaped ceramics, each glazed with a gradient pattern. beads on a chain appear above and below each ceramic.
October 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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the ceramics and i made it safely to tokyo! these boxes + ranpak kept the ceramics intact in my luggage!

the next few days will be for finishing show prep with @shirleywu.studio!
boxes of ceramics shapes with stickers featuring the ceramic piece plus a photo of the tree it’s inspired by. ceramics shapes include maple leaves, sakura flowers, and gingko leaves.
October 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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i’ve been experimenting with different ways to bundle together the puzzle hunt envelopes (twine, ribbon, etc), and this is my favorite so far!
packet of papers held together by a vellum strip and wax seal, with dried flowers tucked in. the front paper is dark green and says “a flower by any other name: a linguistic and botanical puzzle hunt by sailorhg set at the san francisco conservatory of flowers”
October 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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tokyo friends, @shirleywu.studio and i have been working on a datavis + ceramics art show that will open next week!

ephemeral:
capturing seven decades of blooms and foliage in ceramics

📆 2025.10.16(thu)–10.19(sun) 1–7pm
🎊 10.17 (fri) 6–8pm opening party
🗺️ such as gallery, shimokitazawa, tokyo
a photo of a ceramic sakura, maple leaf, and ginkgo, with the text “amy wibowo and shirley wu present: ephemeral 陶器に映し出す、桜と紅葉の70年の季節。(translated in english: capturing seven decades of blooms and foliage in ceramics) 2025.10.16(thu)–10.19(sun) 1–7pm suchas_gallery shimokitazawa, tokyo
October 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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i’ve put together a few more of these puzzle hunt kits, they’ll be at the shop tomorrow!

also, do i know anyone with contacts at the conservatory of flowers? would love to get in touch with them about putting on an event together!
a green postcard with metallic gold lettering that says “a flower by any olher Name: a linguistic & botanical puzzle hunt by sailorhg set at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers” held up by a hand in front of lush tropical plants in a greenhouse
September 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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this weekend for the closing of our collab art show, @watermeloncafe.bsky.social & i are hosting a zine swap! bring zines you made and swap with us and each other! i’ll be swapping for this zine on how to make your terminal cuter!

78 gough st, sf
sat & sun
1-6pm
mini zine with the text “terminally cute: how to cute-ify your bash prompt” in front of shelves of other zines and a wooden cutout of a black cat on a laptop hanging overhead
September 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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it’s been about a year since i’ve started learning to bake cakes! here’s my latest, baked for @indirect.io’s birthday, an earl grey lavender cake with honey custard filling and swiss meringue buttercream icing.
a photo of a cake on a stand, decorated with cream colored icing and dried flower petals, cut with with 2/3 of the cake remaining, alongside a slice of cake on a rose porcelain plate, a teacup with green rooibos tea, and gold colored mini spoon and fork.
September 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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[cw: food]

scones from lovejoy’s and plum jam from @ronnieftw.bsky.social 💓

(yes i eat scones the devon way)
photo of scones on a blue moomin plate with a gold knife. the scones are covered in clotted cream first and then plum jam. a glass jar of homemade plum jam with a handwritten label is next to it on the marble tabletop.
September 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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@watermeloncafe.bsky.social & i are doing a riso photobooth at our art show this weekend! alice designed this cute border with all the animal crossing flowers!

78 gough st sf
sat & sun 9/20-21
1-6pm
photo of a riso print with a colorful floral frame and a photobooth photo in the middle, held by a hand.
September 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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algorithm and blues is about the feeling after you accomplish a big life goal, of "now what?" i was so focused on getting into my dream school, that i wasn't really sure what to do once i got there. this comic has a lot of feeling adrift, confusion, and eventually finally finding my own way.
comic panel with text "I remember in high school math competitions, it was lonely sometimes being one of the only girls in the room. I'm so excited to live in a dorm with other women that love math and science! But it also gives me an identity crisis. In my hometown, I was "the girl who was good at math and computers." Now that could describe anyone who lives in this dorm. What makes me *me*?"
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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i’ll have an interactive version of my sequel to home sweet homepage, called algorithm and blues, readable at my art show with @watermeloncafe.bsky.social this weekend!

78 gough st, sf
1-6pm
sept 13 & 14, 20 & 21, 27 & 28
a black, white, and aqua digital drawing of a windows xp desk top. a window has the window title “a comic about computer science & depression”. that window has an image with the words “algorithm and blues” in large blue y2k font bubble letters. an emacs window behind it shows some programming code. desktop icons line the left side. in the right lower corner is the text “by Amy Wibowo”
September 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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my art show with @watermeloncafe.bsky.social opens this weekend and will run for the remaining weekends of september!

here’s the rsvp link for our opening weekend! poster by alice!

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poster of two friends, one holding a lavender journal, one holding a tuxedo cat. text says “tiny grass is dreaming, an art show by alice lee and amy wibowo. sept 13-14, opening weekend. sept 20-21 riso photo booth. sept 27-28 zine swap. 78 gough st. sf, 1-6pm” clouds, ceramics and flowers are in the background
September 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM