Karina Chow
@karomancer
Screw the rules, I have green hair | 🇩🇪🇺🇸 SF Bay native | tech × design × art × psych | ex-eng @Patreon, @Microsoft, @honor | @ITP_NYU @cmuhcii educated
Hello world! 👋 I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)
Cramming in as much training as I can across both coasts in the last weeks up to the tournament. Bleeding blisters and shin and knee bruises be damned. Ah!!!
Aikido seminar with TCA ✅ FMA seminar in 5 different styles ✅ Now to prepare for the national naginata tournament, seminar, and blackbelt test in July. I didn't plan for it originally, but 2025 is shaping up to be very martial arts forward! ⚔️
I have a few "Never have I ever" questions in my back pocket that almost always help me win, especially against other millennial Americans. Never have I ever used a dating app, and no I don't have difficulties dating. How about you? Have you used a dating app?
Gah coloring is so hard. Spent 6 hours trying to color a piece and I'm not happy with it. Wasted a couple more hours asking a few AI models to help, but though they look nice it's not close to what I envisioned. AI for art has the same debugging hell feeling as AI for code.
VC: If you want to win you have to hustle and grind. 996 baby! Also VCs after sending two work emails:
The idea that you’re too late, too old, and there’s no point in trying holds you back more than anything else ever could.
Saw (and played!) one of the most wild indie arcade cabinets I've ever seen at Wonderville this week. Introducing Nightmare Kart, a game with PS1 graphics written in Unreal that's like Mario Kart reskinned with Victorian horror. Available on Steam! But without the cool cabinet
When I'm in SF, I usually average 10-14k steps a day. I forgot how crazy I can get when I'm back in NYC...
Humanity has prevailed (for now!) I'm completely exhausted. I figured, I had 10h of sleep in the last 3 days and I'm barely alive. I'll post more about the contest when I get some rest. (To be clear, those are provisional results, but my lead should be big enough)
After a full weekend of nearly non-stop competition, seminars, and a practical and written exam, I am excited to announce that I placed 3rd in my division for kata and successfully got promoted to blackbelt with the best cohort I could possibly ask for! Now to pass out!
"Wife material. She cleans my weapon, if you know what I mean." Comment made while I prepare my naginata for the tournament 🤣
100% would recommend going to Batsu! in NYC. If you love the idea of a Japanese game show with improv comedy challenges and ridiculous punishments, check it out! I dressed up and got to hit the gong to end the night. Best on theme activity for this week!
This is Miyamoto. I am pleased to announce that for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda, Zelda will be played by Bo Bragason-san, and Link by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san. I am very much looking forward to seeing both of them on the big screen. (1/2)
Sometimes I just want to carry those old shitty white iPod earbuds on me just to throw at people playing sound aloud from their phones in public.
As a middle-aged woman, I ought to know how to do this by now. Maybe I just need the mink stole and opera gloves to really sell it... #comics #cartoonstrip #cartoon #animationartists #adulting #sophisticated #sophisticatedstyle #orderingdrinks
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