sparse galaxy

Hello World! I'm Qi, welcome to sparse galaxy, a cosmetic dance of logs, moments, notes, thoughts and ideas bound together by gravity. They are remain eerily dim, in their subtle glow as they slowly come into focus.

I'm currently living in Brooklyn. You can read more about what I'm doing >>

June 2026

[June 11-12 2026]
Big Island Day 1-2: a short stay in Kona, Papakōlea Green Sand Beach before staying at a Hawaii farmland

makaeo papakolea green_sand southernmost punaluu hawaii_acres_2

[June 13-14 2026]
Volcano Kīlauea: went to the park on Saturday in the dawn with an airbnb guide; experienced different shades and shapes of crater and mountains with lighting changes as time goes by. Second day, paused my long run along the beaches in Hilo for the precursory in the early morning; the eruption of episode 49 was announced around 9:30am HST, during which i've earned a spot at the Keanakako'i Overlook.

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May 2026

[May 29 2026] DUMBO Drop:

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[May 23 2026] Rene Liu Last Call Concert at Barclay Center:

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[May 7 2026] New York Transit Museum:

decommission topography circular mytm
April 2026

[April 18 2026] Crunchyroll english: Unordinary

unordinary

[April 9 2026] 秒速5センチメートル

sakura
March 2026

[April 1 2026] Layover in Istanbul - Pastries, Tram, Bazaar, Muzesi, Bosphorus and Two continents.

borek lokum taksim bazaar galata muzesi arkeoloji bosphorus

[March 21-26 2026] Ko-Ko-To-Hai(Koktokay), Altay, Xinjiang - Kuyirt, Yileimuhu, Altai Mountains, Irtysh River.

Kuyirt yileimuhu altaimountains rtyshriver

[March 13 2026] Layover in Istanbul - The Camisi and Hafız Mustafa.

blue_mosque camisi mosque_in_dask mosque_in_dark baklava lokum
February 2026

[Feb 26 2026] BK SNOW DAY V2

[Feb 16 2026] Lunar New Year's eve at Mount Snow, VT

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January 2026

[Jan 19 2026] MLK day at Mount Snow, VT

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December 2025

[Dec 27 2025] BK SNOW DAY

[Dec 25 2025] Christmas 2025

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[Dec 15 2025] Towards the Van Dyke House at the end of Eagle Ridge Road in Vermont.

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November 2025

[Nov 15 2025] Divine Egypt at The Met
The ancients applied a fluid approach to faith and established a theological framework to understand a world of chaos and order, danger and protection.

apis horus thoth wadjet

[Nov 8 2025] Marathon #5 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon (3:33:59)

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[Nov 4 2025] 4 days ahead of Indy marathon had my knee bruised T.T

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October 2025

[Oct 31 2025] Spooky day treated myself a boba tea at Chihiro to conclude the month (no photo but very good :P

[Oct 23 2025] Sci Con 33: Expansion of the Universe at Pioneer Works

sci_con33 innocent_light
September 2025

[Sept 29 2025] a stunning sunset at Willy B for the day

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[sept 14 2025] almost 10 years after first time visited MoMA PS1

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, more of people watching this time at NY Book Art Fair.

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Bonus of the visit found a little cutie in front of X --

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[sept 8 2025] on my Monday routine of the two-bridge run, simply just never tired of the view --

manhattan chinatown

[sept 6 2025] watched the film Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬, 1993) at Metrograph in Chinatown, NY

concubine

August 2025

[aug 30 2025] Bodega Style Sandwiches (from BQE) after a pleasant hike in Beacon, NY

BQE

[aug 23 2025] The water cure... @ Rockaway Beach in Queens, NY

aug-23-2025

[aug 18 2025] After moved to Brooklyn in July, I'm now used to run on sidewalks next to constructions...

aug-18-2025