The man was cleaning his glasses while reading some reports, barely able to get a word of permission out before the door opened, which caused him to straighten up and realize this was important.

He put his glasses back on.

Of course, sir.

I am all ears.

(Hermes AU. May have over done this?)

[AU]

*Kilroy and Li agreed that they shared concern, and simultaneous interest, in this new-hire. As a result, it was without question that Kilroy had deployed one of his smallest automatons on the nurse. Having left the office, the spider-machine clung to Hermes’ clothes, watching the scene through a camera.*

*Seeing the girl’s pounding, the automaton realized it might be squashed, and skittered higher on Hermes’ shoulder to watch.*

(Back from when I had energy to draw lol)

The initial design for him I've kept ever since. I'm actually a specialist in portrait drawing over any other kind of art, so I'm used to working with a model? Mark Strong is my Roman model for face structure and build.

(ignore that I thought 6'1 was short - I have dyscalculia and a tall-ass father)

David Li's short program costume at the 2025 Canadian Nationals.

The teeniest, tiniest high five

Blob Opera 

David Li and Google Arts and Culture made this little machine-learning experiment to create opera-singing blobs.

The music is created with a machine learning model that learned about opera by listening to Tenor, Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo‑soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney (plus Ingunn Gyda Hrafnkelsdottir and John Holland-Avery). It’s not playing their audio--rather, it’s playing what the model thinks opera music sounds like based on analyzing 16 hours of their singing.

I like how the eyes watch the cursor - that’s one of those little procedural animation touches that’s simple but adds a lot of life.