digital sarah art joy

2025/27

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intro

I'm testing out an approach to sharing on Instagram + holding myself accountable for prioritizing the work I want to do. It's a weekly digital collage of photos of work I did that week in three different areas: app development, art practice, and video making. I'm only sharing the visual on Instagram, with a link to this blog post for more context, mainly bc I really don't want to have to type things out twice. I'm also sharing on a delayed schedule so that I have time to play catch-up when I need to.

app dev

The plan was to work on redesigning the login page for Impulse Bye. I'm in the process of adding Google and Apple sign in, but I'm also in a bit of a rut. Usually working on design is a good way to ease myself back into work, but this week, I ended up majorly distracted by designing a completely different app. Inspired by the simplicity of apps like TeuxDeux and Ellie, I spent more time than I should have daydreaming about yet another to do app, with the only main difference being that it would have swimlanes for a little more organization of tasks.

art

I started sketching! I did two sessions this week; one at a market (the top two photos) and one while watching The Menu (the bottom two). It was a fun challenge to sketch people on the move. I don't think I did that great of a job, but I enjoyed the process and people watching! Not pictured: I started reading a book called Just Making: A Guide for Compassionate Creatives and also I spent the 4th of July thinking about how I want to move into our country's fucked up future on the horizon. I recently did a reel report and I think I want to do something like that, a series where I share a reel (or maybe a few) and my experience diving into and learning about the things they talk about. Then, after learning, I want to also make some sort of art around it. I was entertaining the idea of making this a separate project and blog; sharing anonymously feels appealing and less scary, but as a daughter of immigrants, this also feels too personal to not do as me. I spent a good chunk of last week feeling hopeless and helpless, and I know my work isn't going to be the deciding factor in how things unfold, but this is how I think I can contribute right now. It's a starting point.

video

I outlined and drafted a script + filmed the visuals for a video about my zine collection. It was a lot of fun to lay out all of my zines and gather some quantitative data (like how many mini-zines I have vs how many booklet zines). I wish I had taken a photo of my filming set-up because it was a phone holder sitting on top of a stack made of a stool, a speaker, and a little storage cube. Very, very precarious, but worked well for getting top down shots.

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