KAIOTEI

01 ✦ Who I Am

A laptop, a Bible, and a conviction

A developer of programs, websites, and digital devices, and a maker of physical art, music, and community.

I'm the founder, creator, and leader of 13 <33 Covenant. My work spans every medium I can get my hands on, all pointed at the same purpose: building something real, together. I believe in the power of creativity to transform and inspire, and I'm constantly exploring new ways to express ideas and emotions through whatever creative outlet fits the moment.

13 <33 Covenant started as one person with a laptop, a Bible, and the conviction that the internet doesn't have to be a wasteland. I build the whole thing by hand: the sites, the software, the little physical devices. I make the music and the art that lives inside it. Some days that means writing a song, some days it means soldering a cyber deck, and some days it's staying up too late fixing a page nobody asked me to fix.

It all comes from the same place: a love for creation and a belief that what we make can carry light.

02 ✦ Roots

Upper Appalachia

Born and raised in western PA in 1993. Upper Appalachia, as I like to call it.

I've spent ample time in the country (living in NC for a stretch), the suburbs of PA, and the major and small cities all up and down the American east coast. I'm of Prussian, Scots-Irish, Hungarian, and Native American descent.

I've traveled much of the United States and a bit beyond it (Mexico, Honduras). I'm not the fondest of travel for tourism's sake, but I've taken plenty of trips to connect with amazing people in person, most of whom I first met online through gaming and art.

I've worked in sales (in person and over the phone), recruiting, public works, construction, warehouses, greenhouses, and too many side hustles to name.

03 ✦ Seasons

Every rung, a season

My life has moved through seasons:

1. Wrestling
2. Halo 3, where I hit semi-pro status in MLG
3. Music and women
4. Survival
5. MMA
6. "Financial success"
7. Becoming my full self
8. And finally, a focus on JESUS and GOD

I became active in crypto as a social movement, and I formed 13 <33 Covenant out of realizing how many waves of the internet's socialscape I've moved through and thrived in. So I defined my intentions with my digital tribe, and I intend to build it into something amazing, every single day.

04 ✦ Online

I grew up online and never really left

I chase down new artists, strange corners of the web, and half-forgotten software the way other people collect records. Digital art in particular has my whole heart: the glitch, the gloss, the handmade-but-holy feeling of it. Everything I pour into 13 <33 Covenant is an attempt to hand some of that back, a place that feels alive, personal, and pointed at something higher than the algorithm.

I rode the SoundCloud wave to my own successes, pivoted back to IRL pursuits, and found my stasis with one foot in both worlds, always staying hip to the metas and motion. I'm an original BASEDGOD follower and a spreader of the based mentality. Pink bandana bitch mob task force tiny pants goon.

I've been a participant and researcher in crypto markets, though I really don't like memecoins. I believe in DeFi, privacy, power to the people, and a rebuking of the monopoly on financial markets. I've been edgy and hateful in the past, back when much of the internet was my influence, but I'm very focused on love and positivity now.

05 ✦ Faith

Follower of Jesus

I love Jesus Christ very much, and I've had my own interesting journey with God: a contentious one with religion, and the most incredible one with Jesus. I now attend a nondenominational church and mostly consume faith-based content.

While I reject institutions, I respect the historical achievements of religion. I am not a follower of the human systems. I follow Jesus as closely as possible through many wise influences, but always rooted in the word, the BIBLE.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters."COLOSSIANS 3:23

"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."EPHESIANS 2:10

06 ✦ What I Make

Built by hand, made with faith

Photography, digital art and collage, release covers, product and apparel design, hardware builds, drawings and pattern work, and the platform that holds it all.

07 ✦ Music

Current release first

Artist, musician and visual artist via pictures and videos. Stream LOCK IN FOR LOVE now, then visit CRASH OUT FOR GOD as a past release.

09 ✦ Find Me

The top of the ladder

Find me across the web. Connect and follow my journey.