Spicy Rice Cakes is the result of a life‑long journey of creativity.
Every project has three ingredients:
The Idea
The spark inside your mind.
The Base
the logic towards reality.
The Flavor
the personality that makes it your creation.
Many products manage to include the spice and the rice, but the cake — the flavor, the intention, the soul — is often an afterthought.
And when that happens, the output becomes flat. Whether it’s a UI, a workflow, or an idea brought to life, the result can feel half-baked.
Spicy Rice Cakes exists to correct that. It’s a pursuit of building with all three elements — emotion, logic, and joy — fully engaged and working together.
We’re living in an extraordinary, and often unsettling, moment in human history. AI is accelerating everything. It forces us to question not just how we build, but why.
We believe it’s our responsibility not to throw around buzzwords, repeat whatever is trending, or rely on TL;DR thinking. Instead, we should push deeper — to understand how to use AI to express real ideas, real creativity, and real individuality.
This isn’t linear thinking. It’s a new way of approaching problems: challenging, nonlinear, exploratory.
Mastering all three parts — the spice, the rice, and the cake — is essential if we want to stay ahead of a technology that can either empower us… or turn us into lemmings.
That’s the concept. That’s the name.
P.S. Oh, and to have fun along the way. This website may seem strange at first, but it was developed with human readers in mind. It’s built with care, and to tell a very personal story. We hope you enjoy the ride.
The spark, the surprise. The thinking layer.
Spice is where ideas are born, tested, and explored before they become real projects. It's the origin energy—concept sketches, moodboards, story ideas, experiments, and the "what if?" moments that spark everything else.
This is where I keep the sparks alive. Not polished. Not finished. Just the raw energy of possibility.
Concept Sketches
Early visual ideas and UI explorations
Story Ideas
Narrative concepts and creative directions
Experiments
Tests, drafts, and unfinished explorations
AI Explorations
Early LLM outputs and creative AI tests
Moodboards
Visual references and inspiration collections
Project Philosophies
The thinking behind specific projects
The foundation and process. How it gets built.
Rice is the workflow, the engine, the structure that supports the idea. This is where I show the behind-the-scenes: the tools I use, the pipeline experiments, the technical choices, and the constant iteration that prevents AI slop.
Not just the finished tool. The thinking about why I chose this tool, how I'm using it, and what I'm learning.
AI & Language
Visual & Media
Infrastructure
Code & Dev
Why These Choices Matter: Every tool was chosen to keep control local, respect privacy, and avoid unnecessary cloud dependencies. The process matters as much as the output.
Where all three come together. Your personal touch.
Cakes is where it all comes together. The finished work. The pieces where you can feel the personality, the intentionality, the flavor. This is the place that only I could have made.
You should be able to walk into a gallery of this work and know, without seeing a credit, that it came from SpicyRiceCakes. That's not style—it's intentionality, taste, personality, and vision.
AI Video Pieces
Cinematic and narrative videos
Design & Visuals
Finished designs and branding
Characters & Stories
LouieAI, PlAIto, INFP Snow Bird
Interactive Experiences
Web projects and tools
One-Minute Stories
Condensed narratives
Experiments & Weird
The boundary-pushing work