hi! i’m eli. that’s pronounced /ˈiːlaɪ/.

i work with playful media & in the digital humanities: developing open-source software + tools, translating media i like, running archival and documentation projects, making games and bots, and a lot of other miscellaneous stuff. i have a master’s in linguistics from the university of hawaiʻi and currently live & work in japan doing computer science-y things. ⛩️

some things i like: experimental video­games, altcomix, public transit, socio­linguistics, japanese ortho­graphy, post-rock & folk punk music, rain, type­setting, dogs, snow, birds, goats, wombats, kurt vonnegut, miriam toews, silk­screen printing, zines, liminality, splatoon, cross­word puzzles & pokémon.

here are some links to my internet things:
 github, letterboxd, bandcamp, twitter, itch.io, last.fm, ko-fi

you can get in touch with me by gazing toward the “contact” star cluster, located at the top of your finderscope.

p.s. enjoy looking for the hidden poem on this page!