iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 03/10/2026

[cw: food] come to the weird web october kickoff that @jzplusplus.com and i are hosting this sunday! ☆ view a showcase of past year's websites ☆ make your own weird websites ☆ help us clear our browser cache by eating our browser cookies! sun oct 4 78 gough st, sf 1-5pm luma.com/calendar/cal...

a sugar cookie with the netscape navigator loading icon with a meteor shower in the background

a sugar cookie with the internet explorer icon circa 1999

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 01/10/2026

some of my proudest ascii creations: an ascii fuji instax camera and film

ascii art of a fuji instax instant camera

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 01/10/2026

i just had SO much fun playing around with this ascii piccrew made by @adelfaure.bsky.social! adelfaure.net/tools/ascii_...

a face made with ascii characters, the current face has large eyes, wavy hair and a button up shirt

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 29/09/2026

doing fanart(?) of the old netscape navigator icon website loading animation, when you would get treated to a little meteor shower any time a website was loading 🌠💫

vector art of the old netscape navigator icon meteor shower, with a white serif N in a circle and a meteor shower happening around it

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 28/09/2026

@jzplusplus.com and i are hosting a kickoff for this year’s weird web october! (weirdweboctober.website) bubblesort studios 78 gough st, sf sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

a vector drawing of internet browsers at a slant

the browser in the foreground has the text:

weird web october kickoff

bubblesort studios
78 gough st, sf
sun, october 4, 2026, 1-5pm

2000s style link banners say “web showcase from past years”
“make your own weird websites”
and “work on this years prompts”

there’s a halftone image of clouds in the background, a mouse with a cursor trail

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 18/09/2026

this is the last weekend of my art show with @shirleywu.studio! we used ceramics, beads, and data from the Japan Meteorological Agency to capture the dates of sakura blooms and ginkgo and maple leaf color changes over the last seven decades. 🌸🍁🍃 luma.com/calendar/cal...

a photo with a blurry flyer on a wall in the left foreground, and a ceramics installation on the back wall. the ceramics are shaped like sakura flowers, ginko leaves, and maple leaves, and show a graph of how the dates of sakura blooms and fall leaf colors turning are changing over the decades due to global warming

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 10/09/2026

thank you to everyone who came to @shirleywu.studio & my show's opening weekend! we're so grateful for the love and support! if you haven't seen it yet, it'll continue to be on view for the next two weekends! 📆 sept 5–sept 20 sat & sun, 1–6pm 🗺️ 78 gough st, san francisco luma.com/calendar/cal...

a photo of a studio door open, revealing a ceramics installation on the back wall. the ceramics are shaped like sakura flowers, ginko leaves, and maple leaves, and show a graph of how the dates of sakura blooms and fall leaf colors turning are changing over the decades due to global warming

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 23/08/2026

@shirleywu.studio & i are bringing the ceramics and data visualization art installation we did in tokyo last year to san francisco! luma.com/calendar/cal...

a photo of sakura, maple, and ginkgo shaped ceramics. the text says "amy wibowo & shirley wu present
ephemeral
capturing seven decades of blooms & foliage in ceramics
09/05 - 09/20 sat & sun 1-6pm 78 gough st san francisco

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 14/08/2026

i’m helping out at the @infloresce.com table today! you’ll be able to snag a copy of the intersections joint comic & album (music by @maddie.vision & comic by me!) come say hi and listen to a bunch of other amazing albums too!

album booklet with a drawing of glitchy pink haired girl coming out of a computer

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 03/08/2026

my ideal relationship little house on the prairie, 2026

screenshot from the 2026 my little house on the prarie series. mary, a girl in a blue gingham dress says "i'm sorry i was rude yesterday" to a boy her age

screenshot from the 2026 my little house on the prarie series. caleb, a boy in a brown shirt, brown vest, and brown cap says "i don't mind"

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 08/05/2026

i'm going to be tabling at at @comicconoakland.com this weekend, my very first comic con! i'll be at booth C24 in the artist alley!

a drawing of a girl soldering with a pink iron. text in the top left corner says bubblesort zines booth c24. text on the bottom says "comic con oakland may 9-10 2026"

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 27/04/2026

one of the stories featured will be the short film "daly city" by director nick hartanto. it's a beautiful film that's made me feel so seen. i'm so excited that nick will be present for the viewing of the film and a q&a session afterwards!

one of the stories featured will be the short film "daly city" by director nick hartanto. nick will be present for the viewing of the flim and a q&a session afterwards!

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 27/04/2026

last month, i hosted in internet cafe at my studio. next month, which is aapi month, i'm hosting an indo-net cafe—a showcase of digital narratives by indonesian american artists, alongside indonesian snacks! luma.com/zp9dqquy

Indo-net cafe

Saturday 5/2, 1-6pm
78 Gough St.

3pm viewing of short film Daly City
Q&A with director Nick Hartanto

digital narratives by
May-Li Khoe
April Soetarman
Amy Wibowo

Indonesian food
by Reculture Foods and Nusa

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 24/04/2026

omg it took 2 years but i finally finished all the pages of my latest comic, algorithm and blues!! now time to get it ready for riso printing. after that, i'm going to make an interactive version for the web! hope to launch both some time this summer!

a black, white, and aqua digital drawing of a windows xp desk top. a window has the window title “a comic about computer science & depression”. that window has an image with the words “algorithm and blues” in large blue y2k font bubble letters. an emacs window behind it shows some programming code. desktop icons line the left side. in the right lower corner is the text “by Amy Wibowo”

a comic page with three panels. Panel 1 (left, 1⁄3 width, full height)

Zoomed out of a room at a math competition, with a sea of boys at
their desks, and only a few women, all highlighted. Grayed out to look
like a memory

Cap:ron I remember in high school math competitions, it was lonely sometimes being one of the only girls in the room.

Panel 2 (center, 1⁄3 width, full height)
Doing DifEq homework together in the living room with friends, while
laughing

Caption: I’m so excited to live in a dorm with other women that love math and science!
Panel 3 (right, 1⁄3 width, full height)
View from above, Lying on my bed, looking up at ceiling

Caption: But it also gives me an identity crisis.

In my hometown, I was “the girl who was good at math and computers”.
Now that could describe anyone who lived in this dorm. What makes me *me*?

a page from a comic. the large background panel shows walking through the snow in an empty courtyard in front of a giant college campus dome. small panels show sitting in a sea of students in a lecture hall, then hands wearing fingerless gloves typing at a keyboard.

a computer window with the title bar text "a sequel to home sweet homepage", and body text "What do you do when you accomplish your biggest goal, but have never thought about what comes afterwards? Amy had focused so much on getting into her dream college for computer science that, once there, she isn’t sure what to do next. So now, she’s adrift in a sea of algorithms classes, people way smarter than her, and anxieties about the rest of her life.

©2026 Amy Wibowo
http://bubblesort.io"

various computer icons, like a folder, trash can, and hard drive icon, line the right side of the page

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 04/04/2026

today’s shopkeeping outfit! in the shop (78 gough st, sf) til 6pm today!

mirror selfie. i’m wearing a dress with colorful scribbles and a face mask. shelves of books and zines are behind me

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 24/03/2026

had a perfect afternoon watercolor painting outside 🌸🌳

paint palette with watercolors and a postcard with a panting of a japanese garden with conifer and sakura trees and

a photo of a watercolor painting of a japanese garden with a gate, conifer and sakura trees in front of the painting subjects

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 18/03/2026

i have just a few more pages left to finish for my upcoming comic about depression and studying computer science. yesterday, i finished lining and coloring the page on the left, which i feel like completely embodies the theme of depression and studying computer science lol

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 17/03/2026

round screen e-reader update: made text wrap to fit in a circle ⚪️

a circuit board and a small round display. display shows first two paragraphs of pride and prejudice with a monospaced font, text wrapping to fit in a circle

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 08/03/2026

the last day of POPUP INTERNET CAFE! come see and play with interactive art about the internet and connection ˚₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ‧₊˚ 78 gough st, sf until 6pm

a well lit room with cream walls and wooden floors. tables are set up displaying an ad5 terminal as well as vintage mac studio displays. a pink cafe menu hangs on the wall. there are shelves with zines and a wooden cutout painting of a cat on a laptop.

ascii art flyer with a pop up window with the title “bubblesort.html”. the body text reads “showcase of interactive art about connection & the internet by nina freeman/aaron freedman, cara eaten hurtle, jackie liu, henry tran, and amy wibowo

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 07/03/2026

excited to showcase some cool games by game devs of color in collaboration with @gdocexpo.com next wednesday! rsvp here! luma.com/2v2mgk41

pink bubble letters spelling out "bubble sort studios" and a black circle with lime green and aqua outlines, with the letters GDOC inside the circle.

more monospaced text spells out
games showcase
wednesday, march 11
2pm - 7pm
78 gough st, sf

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 06/03/2026

working on making an e-reader with a round screen, tested it by loading pride and prejudice onto it!

a circuit board and a small round display. display shows first two paragraphs of pride and prejudice with a monospaced font

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 03/03/2026

me too!! as soon as i saw this pikachu i was like… is that batik??

art of two pikachu, one wearing a hat and batik shirt, the other wearing a cap and a top and skirt with tropical flowers

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 15/02/2026

day 2 of POPUP INTERNET CAFE! a gray rainy day is a perfect time to sit in a cafe and enjoy interactive art!

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 14/02/2026

last minute i designed and riso printed guestbook postcards for POPUP INTERNET CAFE! if you come, you can sign our guestbook and put your entry on the wall

pink printed cards that says “sign our guestbook” with fields that say “name” “website” and “comments”, decorated with ascii art and pinned to a wall

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 14/02/2026

setting up for POPUP INTERNET CAFE! luma.com/calendar/cal... cafe menu poster by @jackieis.online! interactive telnet piece on an adm5 by @cara.city!

a space with white walls, white tables, a shelf of zines, and multiple mac studio displays from 2000. a pink cafe menu hangs on the wall

adm terminal machine with interactive poetry on a white table with a flower stool for sitting. behind the table, on a white wall is a black cat peering behind a mac classic ii

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 13/02/2026

the POPUP INTERNET CAFE art show is opening on valentine's day! i personally think it would be a great place to take a date! and of course i'll have computer-themed valentines available! 💘🍒

valentines postcards that read "i git cherry-pick you", with a drawing of femme person holding a cherry over an ice cream sundae. the edges of the card are scalloped. cherries are on the table next to the postcards

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 12/02/2026

by the way, you don't need to RSVP to attend POPUP INTERNET CAFE (opening this weekend) but if you do RSVP, you can get some fun freebies! luma.com/calendar/cal...

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 10/02/2026

just for POPUP INTERNET CAFE, i'm reviving my blog from when I was a teenager. come read all of my embarrassing secrets.

screenshot of a website. there's an ink drawing header of a girl with long black hair sitting in a window reading a book. the title of the website is also hand draw in in ink and reads "the sailor diaries" with a star in the o. the website's background is small grey checkerboard.

The website's text reads:

Thursday, May 15 2003

Listened to Alanis Morsette’s “Precious Illusions”: it’s has such a cute video comparing medeival love to modern love. Wow, it’s so hard to study for exams.

I have inspiration for several comic strips of of “SailorHg’s mathematical adventures” and drew a sketch for a cover in 18.03; perhaps that will be coming out even before my Wrinkle In Time doujinshi. SailorHg’s adventures at least won’t take any research.

Live lecture tomorrow. We all get lambda pins yay.

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 28/01/2026

bubblesort studios is turning 1 year old in feb and this is how i’m celebrating its birthday—by hosting an internet cafe featuring some of my favorite interactive artists 💓

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 17/01/2026

samantha goldstein’s exhibit, mechanical botanical, is all set up at bubblesort studios and it’s so delightful! explorations in fabric, glass, circuits, and 3d prints here this weekend at 78 gough st, sf from 1-6pm!

stained glass and blown glass lamps, and floral mechanical structures displayed in an art gallery alongside retro imac computers

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 30/12/2025

i dove into a soft soap dispenser from 2003 🐟🐠🪸 (jk this is raja ampat 2025)

photo of a blue ocean scene with coral and lots of fish including 2 pennant coral fish

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 12/12/2025

the back cover and front cover of the diving log book i’ve designed and riso printed! 🪸🐠

a risograph print of a manta, fish, and coral

a risograph print of a turtle, coral banner fish, garden eels, and lots of coral

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 02/12/2025

size comparison chart from wikipedia

a photo comparing orange variety sizes. text says “a sweet orange (largest), another variety of mikan, or mandarin orange (middling), and a kishu mikan (smallest)

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 30/11/2025

if you’re looking for the perfect holiday card to send your favorite software engineer, look no further: my letter-pressed binary christmas tree card 🎄 shop.bubblesort.io/products/bin...

a pastel letter-pressed holiday card featuring a binary tree decorated with numbered ornaments, and a feminine person about to placing another ornament on the tree.

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 25/11/2025

i’m awaiting his entrance in the new ranma 1/2 anime—i was born to cosplay him

mousse, a character from ranma 1/2, a man with bangs and long black hair, holding round glasses

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 19/11/2025

i haven’t been able to find a cute scuba diving log book so i’m working on designing my own 🐢🪸🐠

drawing of ocean scene with coral, turtle, fish, and garden eels, and the text “dive log”

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 08/11/2025

back from traveling and an injury, so the bubblesort storefront is open again! 78 gough st, sf sat & sun 1-6pm

a shop with shelves of colorful zines and postcards and tables with pink and teal imacs and flower stools

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 31/10/2025

not our halloween costumes, but @indirect.io and i got to see tokyo disneyland last week all decorated for halloween 🎃 (i’m dressed as stella lou, a tokyo disney sea character)

a giant pumpkin shaped like mickey mouse, and two people posing in front of it, one a femme with long black hair and a rabbit ears hat, rabbit bag, and lavender plaid vest and skirt, and one a man with short brown hair, a rain jacket, megaman t-shirt, and jeans.

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 27/10/2025

as a huge muji fan, it was one of my dreams to stay at the muji hotel, and it was just as nice as i hoped it would be

me, a feminine person with long black hair, sitting on a window seat in a wood paneled room with a bed and bookshelves

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 19/10/2025

today is the last day to see @shirleywu.studio’s and my interactive ceramics & data science art show at such as gallery in shimokitazawa, tokyo!

two walls of an art gallery with the title “ephemeral” and sakura, ginkgo, and maple shaped ceramics hanging with vertical chains of beads attached. the ceramics represent how much earlier or later the flowers bloomed or leaves’ colors changed compared to a 7 decade average

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 17/10/2025

aw thank you so much! this is what the backs look like btw, and there are two nails holding up each piece via the holes! (also pictured, the nfc chip inside each ceramic haha) i hope your wife’s show goes well, i can’t wait to see pics!

the backside of a ceramic maple leaf, with two hanging holes and another hole where an nfc chip has been inserted

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 16/10/2025

a detailed photo of some of the ceramics

a gradient rated sakura, ginkgo, and maple leaf ceramic, with beads strung above and below each piece. a printed piece of washi paper indicates the decade of bloom and color change data these ceramics represent, 1999

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 16/10/2025

i’m so proud of us!! @shirleywu.studio and i set up our collaboration art show at suchas gallery in 下北沢, tokyo which will run through 10/19! it’s an interactive ceramics installation that shows how sakura bloom dates and maple & ginkgo color change dates have shifted over the past 7 decades

photo of the outside of a gallery space with the name on the awning “suchas gallery”, and a sign in the window that says “ephemeral”

a ceramics installation on a wall with sakura, maple, and ginkgo leaf shaped ceramics, each glazed with a gradient pattern. beads on a chain appear above and below each ceramic.

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 13/10/2025

the ceramics and i made it safely to tokyo! these boxes + ranpak kept the ceramics intact in my luggage! the next few days will be for finishing show prep with @shirleywu.studio!

boxes of ceramics shapes with stickers featuring the ceramic piece plus a photo of the tree it’s inspired by. ceramics shapes include maple leaves, sakura flowers, and gingko leaves.

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 10/10/2025

i’ve been experimenting with different ways to bundle together the puzzle hunt envelopes (twine, ribbon, etc), and this is my favorite so far!

packet of papers held together by a vellum strip and wax seal, with dried flowers tucked in. the front paper is dark green and says “a flower by any other name: a linguistic and botanical puzzle hunt by sailorhg set at the san francisco conservatory of flowers”

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 06/10/2025

tokyo friends, @shirleywu.studio and i have been working on a datavis + ceramics art show that will open next week! ephemeral: capturing seven decades of blooms and foliage in ceramics 📆 2025.10.16(thu)–10.19(sun) 1–7pm 🎊 10.17 (fri) 6–8pm opening party 🗺️ such as gallery, shimokitazawa, tokyo

a photo of a ceramic sakura, maple leaf, and ginkgo, with the text “amy wibowo and shirley wu present: ephemeral 陶器に映し出す、桜と紅葉の70年の季節。(translated in english: capturing seven decades of blooms and foliage in ceramics)

2025.10.16(thu)–10.19(sun) 1–7pm
suchas_gallery shimokitazawa, tokyo

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 28/09/2025

i’ve put together a few more of these puzzle hunt kits, they’ll be at the shop tomorrow! also, do i know anyone with contacts at the conservatory of flowers? would love to get in touch with them about putting on an event together!

a green postcard with metallic gold lettering that says “a flower by any olher
Name: a linguistic & botanical puzzle hunt by sailorhg set at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers” held up by a hand in front of lush tropical plants in a greenhouse

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 26/09/2025

this weekend for the closing of our collab art show, @watermeloncafe.bsky.social & i are hosting a zine swap! bring zines you made and swap with us and each other! i’ll be swapping for this zine on how to make your terminal cuter! 78 gough st, sf sat & sun 1-6pm

mini zine with the text “terminally cute: how to cute-ify your bash prompt” in front of shelves of other zines and a wooden cutout of a black cat on a laptop hanging overhead

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 26/09/2025

[cw: food] it’s been about a year since i’ve started learning to bake cakes! here’s my latest, baked for @indirect.io’s birthday, an earl grey lavender cake with honey custard filling and swiss meringue buttercream icing.

a photo of a cake on a stand, decorated with cream colored icing and dried flower petals, cut with with 2/3 of the cake remaining, alongside a slice of cake on a rose porcelain plate, a teacup with green rooibos tea, and gold colored mini spoon and fork.

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