A critique on the affordable housing crisis in “superstar cities”, described to be more desirable places to live, attracting higher-income households which then inadvertently reinforce that housing prices stay prohibitively high. They are the cities that have a combination of high wages and high rents that cause them to be disproportionately home to labor market superstars.

An animated poster for the song “Hush”, using both digital and analog collage methods to create a motion accompaniment to the lyrics. 

Fillers words such as um or uh are words, sounds, or phrases people use to “fill in” empty spaces in communication, often used to fill up the silence. More often than not, they’re unintentional; we use them subconsciously to fill the space or time while we prepare our main message. However, these are also disruptions in what would otherwise be fluid conversation.

My goal was to track those discourse markers in speech—mine included—for a week, analyzing how usage of filler words change in different contexts and when speaking in other languages. This data is then consolidated into a visualization that explores representing more nuanced visualizations of information, illuminating the small, often ignored details of our everyday lives.