Nik Tesija

programming

I work 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.

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. Here is a link to a website with links to other things like my music.

art

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.

video

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

This is a video I took of random things including me and the streets of San Francisco. I have a lot of videos like this because I often get bored and wander around the city.

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

I recently started learning to sculpt marble. I'm not good at it yet so I don't have any pictures. It's a fun hobby that results in me using half of the trunk space in my car to store a block of alabaster that I may never use.

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.