yuka isabel
YUKA ISABEL is a digital media artist from Tokyo, currently based in Los Angeles.
Recent graduate of the Media Arts + Practice program @ the University of Southern California.
Interests include abberation, ephemerality, mundanity, liminality...
Recent graduate of the Media Arts + Practice program @ the University of Southern California.
Interests include abberation, ephemerality, mundanity, liminality...
/JUL 2025
/JUN 2025
Whore of Babylon (Wikipedia) Usenet (Wikipedia) "Tracing the Chuck Taylor’s subcultural style legacy" by Calum Gordon (Dazed) Supreme - "cherry" Random videos (Supreme) Converse Style Index Zine (hypebae) "Nutsy's: Kate Moss Teaser" by Tom Sachs (YouTube) "The Stanford Prison Experiment" by Vsauce (YouTube) "Authorized Account | Podcast" by Insider (YouTube) ^ i might've gone thru the entire podcast in a single day..."What the heck is a Creative Technologist?" by Tom Sachs (YouTube) "Nutsy's: Kate Moss Teaser" by John e Evanofski (Medium) Semaphore (Wikipedia) Cher Ami (Wikipedia) "Image Fulgurator" by Julius von Bismarck triple j Sonic Rebrand by Entropico Paris Texas - "They Left Me With A Gun" (YouTube) Mechatok - "Expression On Your Face (feat. Ecco2k & Bladee)" (YouTube) "Dirty Girls" by Michael Lucid (YouTube) "My Big Sister" by Jake Henkel Film (YouTube) "PUPARIA" by Shingo Tamagawa (YouTube) "Doll Face" by Andrew Thomas Huang (YouTube) "The Greatest Living Show" by Toby Fox & Itoki Hana (YouTube) "How To Be Alone" by Andrea Dorfman (YouTube) "BRASS TACTICS EP104" by Sara Gunnarsdóttir "THE WINDSHIELD WIPER" by Alberto Mielgo (YouTube) "PEOPLE PERSON" by INNER VEIL PICTURES (YouTube) "NEW RAVE IMAGO" by jolei12060 (YouTube) New Rave (Aesthetics Wiki) New Young Pony Club - "Ice Cream (Van She Remix)" (YouTube) CSS - "Music is My Hot, Hot Sex" lyrics: "Debaixo do lençol ele gemia em ré bemol Fiquei tensa, mas tava tudo bem" (Genius) Sleigh Bells - "Riot Rhythm" (YouTube) Electronic Beats "An old mans advice." by Bernard Albertson (YouTube) "PAPERS" by よしながき (YouTube) "How Pythagoras Broke Music (and how we kind of fixed it)" by Oliver Lugg (YouTube) "Radiohead - Weird Fishes Arpeggi with Sonic Pi" by Sounds Like Data (YouTube) World War II postal acronyms (Wikipedia) "The big book of talking dirty" by Jonathon Green (Internet Archive) "How World War II’s ‘Dear John’ Letters Changed American Society" by Susan L. Carruthers (TIME Magazine) 少女革命ウテナ (Wikipedia) "Bourdain & The Trouble With Being Alive" by Katie Beth Payne (Substack)
/MAY 2025
"Forty Years Ago, the Mac Triggered a Revolution in User Experience" by Jacob O. Wobbrock (Smithsonian Magazine) "The Most Famous Algorithm In Computer Graphics" by Acerola (YouTube) "Do Video Games Fake Buoyancy?" by Acerola (YouTube) "Why Did PS1 Games Look Like That?" by Acerola (YouTube) "'Vibe Coding'" by Emergent Garden (YouTube) "Making music with Nintendo Gameboy & Friends" by David Hilowitz Music (YouTube) "No, You Don't Want to Move to Japan" by Jax (YouTube) "You are a better writer than AI. (Yes, you.)" by josh (with parentheses) (YouTube) "Why Radiohead Is So Effective In Visual Media" by sco music (YouTube) "The Internet Used to Be a Place" by Sarah Davis Baker (YouTube) "'You Will Own Nothing'" by Jared Henderson (YouTube)
/APR 2025
Olfactory art (Wikipedia) Spice Chess (Wikipedia) "Just like drops in time, nothing" by Ernesto Neto (Escentric Molecules) Teddy Bear Elvis Presley Perfume (Rare Elvis) Aromajockey (ODO7) "Erich Berghammer reinvents the perception of scent as aroma jockey ODO7" (Orb Mag) Game of Thrones S8E3 "The Long Night" (Wikipedia) "Losing the Backup Fragments of a Fading Digital Memory" by Matilde Crucitti (Fakewhale LOG) Manqué (Wikipedia) Lack (psychoanalysis) (Wikipedia) Borromean rings (Wikipedia) Intertwingularity (Wikipedia) Tokyo Incidents - スポーツ (Spotify) "Understanding the Middle East's passion for pomegranates" by Indlieb Farazi Saber (Middle East Eye) "For-Profit (Creative) Software" by EndVertex (YouTube) "Things AI Will Never Understand" by Fractal Philosophy (YouTube) "The Controversial Rise of Rockstar Games" by Explorist (YouTube) "How David Bowie’s Blackstar Turned Death into Art" by Middle 8 (YouTube) Sweet Trip - Seen/Unseen (Spotify) "TouchDesigner Python Cheat Sheet for Developers" by Jack DiLaura (The Interactive & Immersive HQ) "Writing from the Vortex of War" by Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq (The Ideas Letter) "If you want to be creative, you can’t be certain" by Ida Persson (Medium) "Impostor syndrome" by Seth Godin (Seth's Blog) Apophenia (Wikipedia) David Rudnick The New Wave Of American Shoegaze by Eli Enis (Stereogum) Tim Høibjerg Sohodolls - "Bang Bang Bang" (YouTube) Chairlift - "I Belong In Your Arms (Japanese Version)" (YouTube) "On Making Haptic Drawings & Accordion Fold Books" by Stephen Vincent (Women & Performance) Framework: The Finnish Art Review 2 / Fall 2004 "Mirror-touch synaesthesia in the phantom limbs of amputees" by Aviva I. Goller, et al. (NIH) "How Justice’s Cross Turned Rock Fans Into Rave Kids" by Middle 8 (YouTube) Manqué (Wikipedia)
/MAR 2025
"State of The Dead Internet" by Jules (YouTube) "Metal Play" by makemebad35 (YouTube) Coconut Records - "Any Fun" (YouTube) "Being a Dickhead's Cool" by Reuben Dangoor (YouTube) "POOF! The Pop Show: Interview with Grimes" by WTULNOLA (YouTube) Blood Orange - "Champagne Coast" (YouTube) MGMT - "Time To Pretend" (YouTube) Chairlift - "Met Before" (YouTube) "The image you can't submit to journals anymore" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) Lenna (Wikipedia) "The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "Suspicions are swirling and Bell Labs is burning" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "How to lose a Ph.D in 127 pages" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "YOU NEED MATHEMATICAL LOGIC!" by citytutoringmath (YouTube) "How Reality TV Houses Are Built to Break People" by Stewart Hicks (YouTube) "Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (Live in Buffalo, NY, 7/4/2004) [Official Video]" by Goo Goo Dolls (YouTube) Search Party S5 E3 "Kings" (IMDB) "How Betelgeuse Will Explode | How the Universe Works" by Science Channel (YouTube) "Real Images From Our Solar System" by Destiny (YouTube) "3D Nebulae and the Power of the Blender Community - Gleb Alexandrov" by Blender (YouTube) "nintendo frutiger aero chill mix 2025" by ninchrisu (YouTube) "Yoyaku instore session with Tomoki Tamura" by Yoyaku Record Store (YouTube) 香道 (Wikipedia) Smell: A Very Short Introduction - Chapter 6 "Smell in culture" by Matthew Cobb (Oxford Academic) r/todayilearned "TIL that making a purple pigment used to dye clothes for royalty in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome involved harvesting the pigment from rotting snails. The stench was so bad that Jewish law specifically granted women the right to divorce any husband who became a dyer after marrying." (Reddit) "Alan Alda Is Still Awesome" by Michael Schulman (Wikipedia)
/FEB 2025
"Human Hyena | 人類鬣狗" by Paul Gong "Everyone is horny now" by Emma Garland (Dazed) "The Math behind (most) 3D games - Perspective Projection" by Brendan Galea (YouTube) MIT Computer Graphics Group Lecture 6 --- 6.837 Fall '00 PDF (MIT) Treemapping (Wikipedia) "Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies" by Ben Shneiderman (HCIL Archive) Swizzling (computer graphics) (Wikipedia) "Blend Modes in Detail: 'Screen' Calculation" by InAffinity for Affinity Photo (YouTube) Lion (heraldry) (Wikipedia) Heraldry (Wikipedia) Tessellation (Wikipedia) "Do you need to be hot to make it as an artist now?" by Laura Pitcher (Dazed) Cyberpunk 2077 (Wikipedia) "A Meta Analysis of Video Essays" by _crustbag_ (YouTube) Principia Discordia (Wikipedia) Eris (mythology) (Wikipedia) List of musician and band name etymologies (Wikipedia) potayto, potahto (Wikitionary) Voyager Golden Record (Wikipedia) "Should We Keep a Low Profile in Space?" by Seth Shostak (New York Times) Balfua Interview (Stuck Magazine) "The Playlist: What is a VJ?" by EnterThePlaylist (YouTube) "VJing, Live Visuals & Creating Videos w/ Glowing Pictures (V Owen Bush + Benton-C Bainbridge)" by Dubspot (YouTube) "There Will Never Be Another Game Like Mirror's Edge" by Liam Triforce (YouTube) "Why is 'Choppy' Animation Better?" by Doodley (YouTube) "A Pop, Dip and Spin Through the History of ‘Pose’" by Sarah Diamond (New York Times) Bell, book, and candle (Wikipedia) Satiric misspelling (Wikipedia) Dysphemism (Wikipedia) Leet (Wikipedia) Enshittification (Wikipedia) "The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok" by Cory Doctorow (Dazed) "Wallace and Gromit : A Completely Serious Deep Dive by Joseph Fisher (YouTube) "Your Colors Suck (it's not your fault)" by Acerola (YouTube) "The Cult of the Dead Stock." by James Jani (YouTube) "The Men Who Promised the Impossible: Unlimited Energy" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "The Dead Grad Student Problem" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "The man who faked human cloning" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "How to catch a criminal cloner" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) Broad City (Wikipedia)
/JAN 2025
"The Wilderness Downtown" by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire's "We Used to Wait" João Gilberto - In Tokyo (Spotify) "An Overdue Celebration for an Unruly Landmark of Feminist Art" by Anna Russell (The New Yorker) "All Apologies" by Eula Biss from Notes from No Man's Land "The History of the Music Video" by Polyphonic (YouTube) The Postal Service - Give Up (Spotify) Grimes - "REALiTi" (YouTube) The death of individualism in fashion by @likethenumber (TikTok) "Such Great Heights" sitar cover by @ronobirla (TikTok) Gorillaz - "Do Ya Thing (Full 13 Minutes Explicit Version) Feat. James Murphy & Andre 3000" (YouTube) Jouissance (Wikipedia) "Roland Barthes: Studium & Punctum" by Quinn Jacobson (Studio Q) "INDIE: THE INSTITUTIONAL POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF A POPULAR MUSIC GENRE" by David Hesmondhalgh (Taylor & Francis Online) Bildungsroman (Wikipedia) "Babygirl is a film about AI." by Emma Chang-Kredl (YouTube) "The Cult of Ignorance" by Isaac Asimov The Crown (Wikipedia) Conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (Wikipedia) "Perfumery disoriented, part 2: Orientalism & colonial aesthetics" by Clément Paradis (Nez) "Nothing is punk anymore..." by The House Of Tabula (YouTube) "I made maps that show time instead of space" by Václav Volhejn (YouTube) "I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found" by adumb (YouTube) "Shoegaze Band Covers Fleetwood Mac On The Spot" by Musora (YouTube) "Countdown To EUSEXUA: FKA twigs in conversation w/ Imogen Heap | Spotify" by Spotify (YouTube) "Zack Fox - Elevator Music" by Elevator Music (YouTube) Mariya Takeuchi - "Plastic Love" (YouTube) David Lynch's Georgia canned coffee ad (Instagram) Bond Girl (Wikipedia) "You Think You Know Umami" by Hannah Goldfield (The New Yorker) Samba Classics Playlist (Spotify) "A Brief History of Graphics" by Ahoy (YouTube)
/DEC 2024
"End the Phone-Based Childhood Now" by Jonathan Haidt (The Atlantic) Divergent (Wikipedia) "the luxury of privacy & the celebrity vs. influencer paradox" by Mina Le (YouTube) "Literary and Artistic Metropolises" by Markian Prokopovych & Rosemary H. Sweet (EGO | European History Online) we should care about where the black shirt is from actually by @thatadult (TikTok) "How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption?" (Cloudflare)
/NOV 2024
Beatnik (Wikipedia) The Americans (Wikipedia) "The Spy Who Dumped the CIA, Went to Therapy, and Now Makes Incredible Television" by Laura Kipnis (WIRED) Chelsea Manning (Wikipedia) "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg" by Malcolm Gladwell "Slouching Toward La-La Land" by John Leonard (New York Magazine) "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence" by Roxanne Gay (The Rumpus) "The Performativity of Heteropessimism as Feminist Complaint" by Ellie Anderson (Post45) "On Heteropessimism" by Asa Seresin (The New Inquiry) "Narrative of Fragments" by Sarah Menkedick (The New Inquiry) "The Secret Gay History of Indie Rock" by Emma Madden (Pitchfork) Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles (Spotify) Satellite Lovers - Sons of 1973 (YouTube) "nosferatu vogueing" by Brendan Donnelly (YouTube) "Being One of the Only Black Actresses on Sex and the City Was a 'Surreal' Experience" - Yohana Desta (Vanity Fair) "Queer Theory 101: Paranoid and Reparative Reading" by Paging Dr. Lesbian (Medium) "The Limits of Defamiliarization: Sex and the City as Late Heterosexuality" by Stephanie Harzewski (S&F Online) Random Word Generator Ouroboros (Wikipedia)
/OCT 2024
/SEPT 2024
"The Trouble with Friends" by Weike Wang (The New Yorker) Teenage Bedrooms On Screen (Tumblr) "Teenagers and Their Bedrooms" by Kit Grauer (JSTOR) "3D Printed Form for Slip Casting - Clay Shrinkage and a Slip Well" by Pottery by Kent (YouTube) "Spike Jonze's Legendary Career | Epicly Later'd" by VICE (YouTube) Spike Jonze (Wikipedia) "The photographers who documented skateboarding’s roots at breakneck speed" by Charlotte Jansen (Wallpaper*) "FROM MY TO ME" by Olia Lialina (INTERFACECRITIQUE) "Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans" by John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke (Reuters)
/AUG 2024
/JUL 2024
/MAR & APR & MAY & JUN 2024
(sorry)
/FEB 2024
Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu "Ada Lovelace, the First Tech Visionary" by Betsy Morais (The New Yorker) The Raconteurs - "Salute Your Solution" (Spotify) "WE’RE SIMILAR. WE’RE COMPATIBLE. WE’RE PERFECT." by Becca Young (Blood Knife) Bitch Mutant Manifesto by VNS Matrix "These Waves of Girls" by Dr. Caitlin Fisher (The NEXT)