Yerong Li
Notes on love, films, sport, music, and the small weather of ordinary days.
Melbourne-based, mostly writing in Chinese and English.
Currently Thinking about love as practice, tennis as philosophy, and cinema as a way to briefly live elsewhere.
Themes
All writing
Field Notes
City observations, encounters, and memory made concrete.
Frames
Film notes and the images that keep echoing after the screen goes dark.
Infinite Game
Running, tennis, rhythm, persistence, and long forms of practice.
Fragments
Poems, quotes, lists, and smaller pieces of orientation.
Sound Experiments
Remixes, samples, and small audio experiments.
Recent Notes
Archive- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running As Well A collection of marked passages from Murakami's running memoir, circling rhythm, self-competition, discipline, aging, and writing as thinking.
- Ascendence Remix A short note for an experimental remix of Kenny Garrett and Svoy's Ascendence, with an embedded audio track.
- Tenets A living list of sentences and principles from scripture, Amazon decision-making, and other thinkers that serve as personal orientation points.
- 网球启示录 Lessons from tennis about adjustment, selective effort, staying in the game, infinite games, and the mental discipline of long competition.