ANHVN
ANHVN
Anh
hi there! i’m anh, a designer and artist this website is where i do silly web experiments and put all my personal content. it’s often experimental and messy so please pardon the dust!!
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note for rss reader enjoyers: this post uses a custom layout, so i recommend reading it on my blog itself. it’ll probably read like hot garbage without the layout (like, hotter garbage than it already is) so what’s all this then ugh,...
After aspiring to for the past few years, I finally succeeded in updating my site for Halloween! I have a new (spooky) homepage. ⚠ Note: I discuss the homepage’s easter egg here, so I recommend checking it out before reading this post....
An extremely long post because I haven’t written this in a month and there is so much to catch up on. More like MONTHnotes amirite??!?!? Mille Fiori (2012), Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, Washington A New Homepage (Spooky) I...
Reading The Canary by Michael Lewis for The Washington Post. h/t to Geoffrey Adams on mastodon, who introduced it so nicely and incited me to read it: This is a remarkable piece of long-form journalism from the Washington Post about a US...
Reading & Links How to draw an owl by Jenn Schiffer platforms.fyi, a rhetorical exhibit by Robin Sloan Responsive Comics by Taylor Hunt Un paseo por Mataró by Javier Arce — beautiful photos, photo log goals… Why I Finally Quit Spotify by...
I have a bunch of nebulous ideas for my website bouncing around in my head or splattered horribly across Figma files, which would probably all die in obscurity if I don’t get my shit together, but I’ve been somewhat inspired by Jim...
It’s July, and the passage of time continues to be disorienting. If you’re reading this in your RSS reader, I must implore you to read it on my blog itself because I designed a nice new post layout just for this and I want you to look at...
Truthfully, there is not much to recap from the past couple of weeks because I spent all of my time playing Destiny. Destiny 2 The Final Shape, the newest expansion, came out on June 4 and completely consumed me. My review: it’s...
Reading Blurry Type on Stealing Rocks — ooh CSS effect oooh Canonize: Creating a Personal Canon Template by Brendan Schlagel — ‘personal canon’ is a good term…i have a half-assed ‘influences’ page I should work on Coding my Handwriting...
I was clicking around Pinterest and fell into the rabbit hole of editorial illustration (very cool, wish that were me (some day)) and then homage covers of The New Yorker. And I thought, huh, that could be a fun thing to do. the...
website I finally made a new homepage, and wrote about it in my last blog post. links Art in the Pre-Apocalypse by Jacob Geller – a video essay! about games and movies and the end of the world. It’s lovely. I’ve had this saved to watch...
Earlier this week, I published a new homepage (version noir), which takes the form of a comic. Haha, get it, anhvn.com, the vn stands for version noir, but also anh stands for a new homepage, haha hahahaha. I’m hilarious. Half of my...
This website Media diary filters At long last, I got around to adding filters to my watchlist and reading list. They’re never going to be as flexible or data-rich as Letterboxd or Goodreads, but I enjoy this bit of extra control. I’ll...
I haven’t written about my website setup in a while, and I thought it’d be nice to compile all the different parts together in one place for easy reference. This post assumes some familiarity with Eleventy, the static site generator I...
Note: If you're reading this in a reader app, the layout's going to be borked with all the images—my apologies. Please check it out on my blog itself for the proper display. These days, I feel more appreciative of art. I think, AI can't...