nik tesija

programming

I worked at Google on Search, making it a pretty website as a front end engineer. This website is my attempt to live life without Figma mocks or a javascript framework, everything is vanilla js.

music

I make music under the name NNIK. It used to be Nautical Nik, but then someone said it sounded like I would be singing sea shanties (which would be cool but I don't). I like to make simple sounding songs that evoke the same feeling as using the spray can tool in MS Paint (they're ok). I hate my voice but I still sing. this is a page with more info about my music.

art

video

I often walk around with my hi8 video camera and film random things. I try to capture the essence of old family videos.

Sonder

I made a movie called Sonder. It follows 8 people through San Francisco as they film parts of their day. It arose from me wanting to see what other people were doing with their days as I was feeling like I was not doing enough. It was really uplifting to see that everyone else was doing just about the same things I was doing too.

3d stuff

My brother is an amazing 2d artist so I wanted to do something different. I decided to begin learning some 3d arts. .

sculpting

a sculpture made from marble showing a nude male figure

I recently started learning to sculpt stone. It's a fun hobby that results in me using half of the trunk space in my car to store a block of alabaster or marble that I may never use. This is a picture of my first two marble pieces I made.

molding and casting

I also just started to learn how to cast molds of things in plastic, often things I mold out of clay. I am not quite good enough to share my creations as I keep making bad molds or ugly casts. Hopefully I will be able to make something cool soon.

photo

I take pictures on 35mm film cameras for fun. Mostly of my friends, but some times I take pictures of other things too.

This is a picture I took on film of some payphones near Morro Bay. Kinda cool and eerie to see that this stuff is still lying around. I had a realization recently that I don't think I ever actually used a pay phone as a kid.

My parents visit me sometimes and I like to record those moments. Here is us having a picnic in Napa. We ate a lot of bread and cheese and drank a lot of wine.