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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 30/09/2026

Finally saw Author & Punisher live after like 15 years of idolizing the dude. Great show in a packed little club in East Hollywood. A reminder that I really did just have this dude all over my mind when I built the Rail Bow in 2013.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 28/09/2026

Had a great time hanging out at the 2026 #VJCC #RAP #ArtsAndCrafts fair this weekend. We bought so much stuff that was really high-quality. Ceramic sake cups, postcards, a yukata, a local lefty history photobook, a little bag, a candle, on and on. Really good stuff on offer.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 28/09/2026

Fucking unreal, iconic pollution #LA #sunset Saturday evening. This is what life here is all about.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 27/09/2026

Sooooo rad seeing DJ Shadow perform his 30th anniversary arrangements of "Endtroducing" front-to-back at the Novo in downtown LA last night. He has apparently never had the occasion / basic stems & samples available to properly tour this record until now. What a treat.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 16/09/2026

I got to the part of “Strawberry Days” by David Neiwert where the ferry accident that nearly wiped out the entire Suda family is mentioned. This is almost right: it was in 1928, and my great aunt Bernadette went to the Convent while my grandpa George was raised elsewhere.

First part of page except from “Strawberry Days” says “The most striking tragedy befell the family of Teikichi Suda in 1925.”

Excerpt from “Strawberry Days” that describes a ferry accident that nearly wiped out my entire Nikkei bloodline.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 14/09/2026

My YouTube search history is so cursed.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 14/09/2026

Pictured: a world where Herbalife has been sued out of existence.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 05/09/2026

Checking your inbox on the morning of #BandcampFriday always be like:

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 03/09/2026

Playing Dawn of the Machine for Quake's 30th has got me rinsing more mods they packaged with the Nightdive release. Love how easily they load up. 1st I played "Beyond Belief" (1997), now I'm trying "Slave Zero X" (2024). Great way to contrast decades of level design refinement. It's very "Ion Fury".

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 28/08/2026

The sandstone triangle that forms the source of the water flow is inlaid with river rocks. There are more out-of-habitat redwood trees here too, forming a vista on an elevated hill to view the rest of the piece from. Other sections are indistinguishable from generic corporate office park structures.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 28/08/2026

OC adventures from yesterday pt 2: We checked out "California Scenario" by Isamu Noguchi in Costa Mesa. It's not much but it really does leave an impression on you. This is precisely what the prompt of "1980s Orange County corporate minimalist modernist version of a Japanese Garden" would yield lol.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 28/08/2026

These trees were planted in 1970 and the park opened in '75. They are watered 5x/wk by a potable water sprinkler system. They only reach <100ft, where as native habitat ones up north can be 3-4x that height. And they were the surplus of a giveaway of redwood seedlings by a local bank. Bizarre stuff.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 28/08/2026

OC adventures from yesterday pt 1: We drove down to Carbon Canyon Regional Park in Brea to see the only sustained grove of redwood trees in Southern California. We also saw a baby rattlesnake under the bench we were snacking at, and it randomly rained for like 10min as soon as we arrived??? Magical.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 23/08/2026

Wanna see my #3DGS #GaussianSplat library? I just consolidated every decent scan I've ever done across all platforms #LichtFeldStudio #Scaniverse #LumaAI #Polycam and uploaded them to #SuperSplat covering ~2.5yrs of going progressively deeper down the rabbit hole. Enjoy! superspl.at/user/egggohan

A screenshot of the SuperSplat website showing some of the Gaussian Splats I've uploaded to the platform; 52 as of now.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 22/08/2026

Aw man, I was on a roll consolidating every decent splat I've ever made on any platform and putting it on #SuperSplat, but I think their AWS servers are throttling me now and my upload rate got like 50x slower. Dang it 😤 Well, it will be really nice to have when I can actually finish this project...

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 21/08/2026

I put a bunch of old family photos from both sides on my new #LookingGlassMusubi. I need to try some videos too!

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 20/08/2026

It's been a minute since I captured something, so despite the non-ideal conditions of not being able to reach above this figure and being in direct sunlight, this #3DGS #GaussianSplat of a Coast Salish figure captured with #SplatKing #RealityScan #LichtFeldStudio turned out pretty good.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 18/08/2026

Took another trip running donated food from a catering company to #HollywoodFoodCoalition today. It's a lotta work driving around town, but it's fun & feels like a secret spy mission. Thrilled to still be able to put the Juneaumobile to good use. Wasn't sure I could fit 31 trays but I pulled it off!

A bunch of open aluminum trays of food sitting on a cart inside the facilities of a catering company.

31 trays of food sitting in the back of my car. Contents include 2 different kinds of rice, 6 trays of mac and cheese, 5 trays of bowtie pasta, 4 trays of sausages, potato salad, roasted veggies, and more.

6 trays of mac and cheese sitting in the front of my car. The weight was so heavy that my car yelled at me to put a seatbelt on the "passenger."

Trays of food sitting on wheeled carts in the receiving area of Hollywood Food Coalition in Glassell Park.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 17/08/2026

Loving all the wonderful high-detail work in the new MachineGames campaign for the 30th anniversary of Quake, Dawn of the Machine. Since it's linear, I'm making sure to spend my time in all the corners and try to rinse as much of the secrets as I can in a reasonable amount of time.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 15/08/2026

Picked up a new #kokeshi yesterday from Osara Commissary in #PikePlaceMarket. He fits right in with the rest of my squad. Love the exposed wood knot and the tassels. His head swivels like the one I got in Hawaii. Cool to have ones from CA, HI and WA now, the collection is starting to come together.

Front view of my new kokeshi doll at my mom’s dining room table.

Rear view of my new kokeshi doll on the dining room table at my mom’s house.

A shot of my kokeshi doll collection at home in Los Angeles. Also visible is a book on kokeshi, a salt lamp, and a set of kachi kachi for bon odori dancing.

Close-up view of my new kokeshi doll within the collection at my apartment.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 12/08/2026

Got up this morning to help my stepdad with gathering & distributing grocery clearance to the Issaquah Food Bank and a local church here in the Renton Highlands. Picked up stuff from the Newcastle QFC and the Issaquah Costco. Feels good to do something up here while PUMA is taking a break this week.

The back area of the Newcastle QFC, with my stepdad Allen in the distance.

The back of our trailer loaded up with bakery / deli items from the Issaquah Costco.

A peek into the intake area of the Issaquah Food Bank.

A lineup of our remaining inventory set up for distribution at a local church in the Renton Highlands.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 06/08/2026

Trent did you seriously make a 30th anniversary Quake nailgun ammo prop weed box 😭💀

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 06/08/2026

Went to a proper barbershop for the first time and got my buzz touched up and my facial hair cleaned up in time for being a best man at a wedding this weekend ✨

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 05/08/2026

Took this thing out again. Someday I won’t look like a five year old learning the basics.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 02/08/2026

I had a bunch of pent-up cooking energy from months of basically only eating Factor meals so I made some nishime veggies w/chicken last week and cleaned out the freezer a fair bit.

Two little chawan bowls, one containing rice w/shoyu and chopsticks, and the other containing seasoned nishime veggies (burdock, carrot, lotus root, etc.) and chicken.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 26/07/2026

Horse Lords live at the Getty tonight! Microtonal ostinatos for days 🤌🏼 #OffThe405

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 23/07/2026

Generally haven't left the house today but I was responsible and masked up to go get my comfort breakfast bagel. Really hoping I can bounce back before Bon Odori this weekend, I would be really sad to miss that.

Me wearing a mask inside of Bueller's Bagels in West LA.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 20/07/2026

Made it to #SIGGRAPH 2026! My first time. Come find me if you’re here and let’s shoot the shit!

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 15/07/2026

I finally spent abt 90min this AM slowly farting around my neighborhood with my new e-bike that I got for my birthday! Feeling optimistic that this will be the thing that will finally teach me to ride a bike. Def not ready for the streets of LA yet but didn’t want to stop, I was having so much fun.

A photo pointed down at the handlebars of a e-bike at the curb of a street in Los Angeles.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 10/07/2026

New glasses and a centennial hat for the West LA Buddhist Temple. Hangin outside Nijiya w/ @alabapsi.bsky.social

Me in a black windbreaker, black and green 404 Media tank top, browline glasses, and a black hat commemorating the centennial of the West LA Buddhist Temple.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 09/07/2026

I would like to believe that if there is nowhere else that I can convincingly resolve the clash in values that live inside of me, that at least I can do that for myself through juxtaposition in my scrapbook.

A two page spread of various stickers and cutout bits of paper. Some of it comes from old instruction manuals from the HTC Vive from 2016, some of it comes from stickers that came from the PUMA Sticker Club including some "Free Palestine" and "Chinga La Migra"-type stuff, and some of it is the cut out instructions from the packaging of some pepper spray.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 08/07/2026

I took ONE trip to the Sawtelle strip right after reading this article and encountered THREE instances of GPT Flyer Slop without looking particularly hard. It's the vertical separators and the same line width/spacing on all of the iconography for me.

A flyer generated with ChatGPT, advertising a "Men's Appreciation Sabbath" (red flag) at a nearby church.

A flyer generated with ChatGPT, for a window cleaning service.

A flyer generated with ChatGPT, for botox and microdermabrasion services.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 07/07/2026

One of the piles of paper I've had sitting on my desk for the last couple months is all of the manuals and other paper bits that were in the boxes of all of my 2016-era HTC Vive gear. I finally took some time to cut all the little bits out and overlay them into my scrapbook. Fun time period mash-up.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 05/07/2026

It was an exhausting work day in the sun, but @alabapsi.bsky.social and I both had a ton of fun staging the wiring up the fireworks, even if we had to stay late to clean up the mess left behind afterwards. Thanks to Hutch, Jingles, Red Dog & the rest of the Hutch FX Crescenta Valley Fireworks crew!

Jingles gives everyone a safety lecture on how to safely stage the product in the launching tube.

Racks of guns sitting on a lawn at Crescenta Valley High School are ready to be loaded after lunchtime.

Britney and I just before launch time in full PPE.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 05/07/2026

I was completely obsessed with this beautiful specimen of boomer engineering - a completely handmade console that uses SCSI ports to send current to speaker wire terminals that light the fuses. Ignited by pressing a multimeter probe against screw heads. Built probably 45 years ago & still working.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 05/07/2026

Spent the 4th of July watching a proper show from the perspective I've always wanted to catch: right on the ground by the firing console! So intense - the chest-rattling BOOM as it leaves the launching tube & the burning paper flying everywhere was awesome. Debris even landed on me a couple times!

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 29/06/2026

Enjoyed our first trip to Osaka Ohsho Gyoza & Tapas with friends on the strip Friday.

A freestanding wheeled prop display advertising Osaka Ohsho outside of the restaurant. Aluminum chopsticks that say "Osaka Ohsho" are gripping a whole branded gyoza on top of a red-branded base.

An assortment of gyoza dipping sauces including mentaiko mayo, red chili flake, etc.

A cut red shotglass with a statuesque face on it, behind a pair of used plastic chopsticks resting on a ceramic chopsticks rest that looks like a gyoza.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 26/06/2026

This sign at Tsutsumi Japanese Artisan Crepe on the Sawtelle strip cracked me up. "Dawg, this joint is GOATED with the sauce." (Forgive my intergenerational mish-mosh of slang.)

A sign outside of a restaurant advertising specialty crepes that says "Kinda Hungry? This Thing Goes Crazy"

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 23/06/2026

got my hurr did ✨ did the cut last week and the color just now

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 21/06/2026

The hype for picking up fresh Fugetsu-Do from the storefront in Little Tokyo is definitely real. We're lucky we squeezed in before the line got too long this afternoon.

An open variety pack of various fine mochi confectionaries from Fugetsu-Do in Little Tokyo sits on top of a plastic grocery bag on a table.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 21/06/2026

We finally visited Otomisan, the famous "last Japanese restaurant in Boyle Heights", for the 1st time & it didn't disappoint. And we managed to walk right in just a few minutes after opening, which limited our exposure to the fire air. I want to come back some time to see if I can scan the inside.

The top of the front of the Otomisan building, advertising tempura, sushi, sukiyaki and udon in stylized hiragana.

A picture of my meal: a chicken teriyaki/california roll combo which included a salad, rice and miso soup.

A view from the first of three booths inside Otomisan looking back towards the front door, featuring a distribution of hung paper cranes across the window, a tray with a candy dish, etc.

A nice piece of simple graphical artwork hung on the back wall of the inside of Otomisan.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 21/06/2026

This is the first time I've noticed a reference to Bronzeville since learning that that is what became of Little Tokyo during the internment years - it changed into a Black area.

A City of LA placard commemorating the site of The Finale Club in the former neighborhood of Bronzeville, which is what Little Tokyo was in 1946 during the internment years. The placard reads "The Finale Club - 230 ½ East First Street - Little Tokyo/Bronzeville - Where Jazz greats Charlie Parker and Miles Davis performed together in 1946."

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 21/06/2026

I picked up an amazing new kokeshi of a tengu while doing some birthday shopping at Dear Vanilla in Little Tokyo today. His head freely rotates in a bobblehead-like fashion too. Thanks @alabapsi.bsky.social for a fun afternoon out 🥰

A front-facing view of a kokeshi doll depicting a tengu. A small painting of a mountain (ostensibly Fuji) adorns the front of the base, along with additional writing along ~1.5"-long pointed posts that extend from the base.

A rear-facing view of a kokeshi doll depicting a tengu. The woodgrain is excellently accented by the lathe work to make the doll, with darker brittle sections of the grain featuring very prominently on this side.

A perspective view of a kokeshi doll depicting a tengu, his elongated nose projecting outward.

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 18/06/2026

I was looking forward to getting this splat portrait from #OriginSpin by #BlueVishnu done for weeks! So fun. New haircut. Pipeline took seconds. #AWE2026

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Nick Suda「須田・ニック」 @nicksuda.com · 09/06/2026

I can't recommend checking out @tenderclaws.bsky.social 's latest project "Body Proxy" enough if u get a chance to try it. They've been mining the same themes since Virtual Virtual Reality but this is the most effectively I've seen all the pieces come together into something so brilliant & original.

A scrapbook page containing the "IPO report" artifacts from a receipt printer that was handed to me at the end of Tender Claws' latest project "Body Proxy."

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