The At Sea Journal

More information than you wanted on a variety of obscure topics

Thanks for visiting! My name is Erik. I'm a writer, programmer, and artist. This site is a place for me to share some of my work. I write novels, and long long studies on how other novelists write theirs. I'm interested in cinematography, figure drawing, machine learning, data visualization, basketball, pedagogy, semiotics, network science, and just about anything else — provided the presentation is wonkish enough.

If you'd like to get in touch, I'm on Twitter. And my book is on Amazon.

Some Recent Stuff

• Check out Potboiler University! A big new project from me, which is sort of my lab notes about becoming a better storyteller. (3/3/21)
• Screen grabs from The Night House (10/6/21)
• The social network of late night tv: Big image and Jupyter notebook with some analysis. (06/25/21)
• A review of The Invisible Man (03/01/20)
• More semiotics, this one about a white dragon. (05/08/19)
• A few paragraphs about a bit in *Breaking Bad* that always stuck with me. (03/10/19)
• I dive into a database to find out who rivals Shaq in a truly obscure statistic. (09/26/18)
• Colorful Prose. A consideration of how and why fiction writers use color.
• Screwing around in Photoshop to make abstract art
• Cinco Paus
  • Some wand data scraped from ~170 runs of Cinco Paus.
  • A chart showing which effects can and cannot occur together.

Cinematography

This is a collection of frames I grabbed from movies I liked. Click a tile to see more from that film.