The Oblique Angle

26/07/2026

With the secondary terminal data decrypted in Beitou, Liang followed the valley’s subterranean drainage paths out of the thermal sector. Slipping beneath the massive steel undercroft of the river span provided vital shelter from the orbital radar sweeps above, giving him a clean window to vanish into the coastal periphery.

To bypass the corporate assets hunting for a fugitive, he merged seamlessly into the rhythm of the public boardwalks. By matching his stride to local runners and blending into the background of families along the paths, Liang transformed his high-stakes exfiltration into an invisible, everyday commute.

Looking out across the water, the dramatic crepuscular rays piercing the heavy storm clouds signaled an impending escalation. The Beitou chapter is closed, but the decrypted schematics point directly to the corporate core. The countdown to Episode 04 has officially begun.

👇 Catch up on Episode 03: Part II: The Roundtable Ghost on Beehiiv

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⁠[Note: This post is a work of speculative fiction for The Oblique Angle Project. The local landmarks, coastal paths, bridges, and weather phenomena featured are real-world elements of Taiwan's landscape, operating purely on standard civil design, natural beauty, and atmospheric physics.]

These pictures taken using the SONY A1

13/07/2026

THE TRANSMISSION IS LIVE // ISSUE 03 📡

The corporate surveillance grid tracks hardware signatures using high-fidelity thermal imaging. To vanish, Liang must pivot inland—leaving the cold concrete of the coast for the steaming, volcanic fissures of the Beitou valley.

The earth here breathes boiled groundwater. It is the only place in New Taipei City where a human biometric heat signature completely dissolves.

But Liang isn't just evading capture. He is hunting a phantom thread from the closed-door technical roundtable completed in the final week of April, racing to decrypt the files before the consortium's scheduled follow-up meeting at the start of June.

The machinery of the endgame is operating in plain sight, hidden right beneath the feet of oblivious tourists.

👁️ ACCESS THE TRANSMISSION
The data drive has been updated. All 11 analog frames from Liang’s camera roll are now compiled into the master log.

👇 Read Part II: The Roundtable Ghost now on Beehiiv.

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⁠[Note: This post is a work of speculative fiction for The Oblique Angle Project. The local landmarks, historical references, and geothermal features of Beitou are real-world elements of Taiwan's beautiful landscape, operating purely on standard civil design and natural volcanic geology.]

Escape corporate surveillance in this cyberpunk thriller. Follow Liang through Taiwan's thermal landscape in The Lagrange Variant: Part II.

12/07/2026

FIELD LOG // CODENAME: THE OUTLAW’S PERIMETER 🌊

To understand how Liang bypassed the security cordon at the Tamsui river mouth, one must look to the ancient, volcanic architecture of the coast itself.

Escaping the Fisherman’s Wharf, Liang bypassed the main arterial roads and slipped down the old coastal periphery. Near the edge of the surf stands a small, weather-beaten concrete shelter marking the trail toward the historic Liao Tianding Temple (a bus stop). To casual passersby, it is a simple reference to local folklore. But to anyone versed in the geography of evasion, the name is an intentional signal. Liao Tianding was Taiwan’s legendary early 20th-century outlaw, a figure who mastered the art of vanishing into the jagged caves and deep ridges of this exact northern coastline to escape state-of-the-art colonial police surveillance.

History repeats itself, it merely upgrades its tools. Liang used the exact same geographical blind spots to slip past the automated satellite sweeps.

Looking out from the shelter, the Taiwan Strait churns under a heavy, suffocating sky. This stretch of beach is intentionally left unmonitored by the consortium’s coastal radar arrays, but not out of administrative negligence.

The shore here is a chaotic field of smooth, black volcanic andesite stones. Because these rocks are dense with iron ore and deep-earth minerals, they generate a permanent, localized geomagnetic anomaly. Liang walked directly along this jagged waterline because the high metallic content of the stones acts as a natural, low-altitude Faraday shield—scrambling the handheld thermal trackers carried by the corporate cleanup crews.

It was on this bleak, unreadable shore that Liang decrypted the data drive from the closed-door technical roundtable completed in the final week of April. The coordinates locked inside the drive confirmed his next destination: he had to turn his back on the sea and take the transit lines inland toward the sulfur vents of Beitou, preparing for the consortium's upcoming high-level follow-up meeting at the start of June.

The grid is vast, but the earth still remembers how to hide an outlaw.
The narrative leaves the coast. Part II: The Roundtable Ghost is officially live on Beehiiv. The link to step into the next transmission block is pinned in the first comment below. 👇



⁠[Note: This post is a work of speculative fiction for The Oblique Angle Project. The local landmarks, historical references, and coastal geology mentioned are real-world elements of Taiwan's beautiful cultural and natural landscape, operating purely on standard history and geology.]

11/07/2026

FRAME EXPANSION // 6:42 PM, BEITOU SECTOR 👁️

Inside the multi-tiered wooden eco-structure in the heart of the valley, the air smells of cedar and old paper. Most visitors come to sit by the massive windows, completely at peace within Taiwan's first certified green library.
But when the camera tilts upward, the aesthetic framework shifts.

Suspended from the dark sloped ceiling rafters hangs a series of geometric, rotating brass-and-wire mobiles. To the architecture students and tourists reading below, they are merely artistic accents designed to catch the soft mountain light filtering through the glass roof.

But Liang recognized the geometry instantly.

The intersecting planes, the precise angular divisions of the metal arcs, the wire-wrapped triangular sectors—they aren't abstract art. They match the exact mathematical orbital mechanics mapped out during the closed-door technical roundtables in late April. They are a physical, scaled diagram of the stable gravity islands between the Earth and the Moon.

The consortium didn't just build an underground cooling grid beneath this sanctuary; they left the actual structural schematics of the L1 Lagrange uplink dangling directly over the heads of the public.

A system this vast doesn't hide in dark basements. It masquerades as interior design.

The transmission continues inland. Part II: The Roundtable Ghost is officially live on Beehiiv. The link to step into the Beitou sector is pinned in the first comment below. 👇



⁠[Note: This post is a work of speculative fiction for The Oblique Angle Project. The Beitou Public Library and its beautiful hanging design elements are perfectly safe real-world cultural landmarks, celebrated globally for green architecture and sustainable civil design.]

06/07/2026

FRAME EXPANSION // 5:16 PM, TAMSUI WATERFRONT 🎞️

Before the cellular network degraded and the air turned freezing cold, I pointed my lens away from the crowds at Fisherman's Wharf and tracked the horizon where the river meets the open sea.

Every local knows the official history of the massive, asymmetric cable-stayed bridge rising across the mouth of the Tamsui River. When the international design competition was decided, the engineers proudly stated that a single, central concrete mast was chosen specifically to keep the horizon clear—ensuring the structure would never block the famous Tamsui sunset from the riverbanks.
Standing on the pier, watching the shadow of that massive tower lengthen across the water, the poetic corporate narrative felt hollow.

In structural design, an unobstructed line of sight works both ways. If nothing blocks your eyes from the horizon, then nothing breaks the transmission path pointing right back down at us from the upper atmosphere. The consortium didn't design the bridge to preserve a local view out of sentimentality; they kept the corridor completely clear because their high-frequency microwave arrays required an absolute, un-shielded line of sight to the L1 Lagrange point overhead.

Looking at the rigid steel stay-cables fanning out against the gray sky, the geographical reality finally set in.

The river mouth was completely locked down. The coastal roads were crawling with unmarked corporate vehicles. With the water bottlenecked by this massive structural anchor, I couldn't escape by sea. If I wanted to survive the night with the raw data drive intact, I had to turn my back on the ocean and run inland—following the parallel steel veins of the transit tracks back into the concrete belly of the city.
The countdown to twilight had officially begun.

Want to read the full 10-minute premiere transmission? Part I: The Vertex Anomaly is officially live. The link to the newsletter is pinned in the first comment below.



* This post is a work of speculative fiction for The Oblique Angle Project. The local landmarks, bridges, and infrastructure mentioned are perfectly safe real-world structures, operating purely on standard, brilliant civil engineering.

06/07/2026

FIELD LOG // CODENAME: THE XINYI TRANSCEIVER CAGE 📡

For those following THE LAGRANGE VARIANT in our main transmissions, you know Liang is currently running from a corporate cleanup crew in Tamsui. But while he plans his escape, we need to talk about where all that stolen energy from the coast is actually going.

Look closely at this shot of Xinyi District.

Everyone recognizes the spire of Taipei 101 piercing the clouds. But look at the massive, circular skeletal structure rising directly next to it. To the millions of people walking through the financial district, it’s just standard commercial real estate under construction.

It isn't. Our sources inside the closed-door technical roundtables have leaked the true structural load metrics for that dome:
👉The Containment Ring: That ribbed, circular cage is a localized magnetic containment ring. It is designed to act as the primary terrestrial transceiver hub, focusing the high-frequency phased-array microwave beams before they are shot up to the space-based AGI at the Earth-Moon L1 Lagrange point.
👉The 101 Retrofit: To prevent the massive upward energy beams from tearing the local atmospheric fabric apart, the consortium has quietly weaponized Taipei 101 itself. They are running a massive superconducting electromagnetic current through the tower's famous 660-metric-ton tuned mass damper (the giant pendulum inside the top floors), turning it into a kinetic counterweight to stabilize the local gravitational micro-lensing.

The machine is being built right in front of us, masked by cranes and construction dust.



* The Oblique Angle Project is an episodic creative writing and analog street photography experiment. The technical specifications, conspiracies, and global events detailed in "The Lagrange Variant" are purely fictional narratives constructed around real-world landscapes for entertainment purposes.

06/07/2026

The siphoning doesn’t happen through the air. It runs right beneath our commutes. 🚇

In THE LAGRANGE VARIANT // Part I, Liang revealed that forty percent of Taiwan's clean energy is being stolen and beamed to the Earth-Moon L1 Lagrange point. But how do you secretly transport gigawatts of raw electrical current from the coastal wind farms across New Taipei City without melting the public grid?

Look closer at the transit lines.

To the general public, this is just the daily commute. But under the cover of the "Smart Transit Retrofit," the multinational consortium laid high-temperature superconducting DC cables directly between the rails. This entire corridor is a massive, shielded power artery, feeding the stolen energy silently into the high-rise capacitor banks you see looming in the background.

Every time the train passes, the field fluctuates. The system is hiding in plain sight.

If you haven't stepped into the shadow world yet, read the full 10-minute premiere transmission of The Oblique Angle Project.



* The Oblique Angle Project is an episodic creative writing and analog street photography experiment. The technical specifications, conspiracies, and global events detailed in "The Lagrange Variant" are purely fictional narratives constructed around real-world landscapes for entertainment purposes.

05/07/2026

The sky over Tamsui is fracturing. 🕶️

It started mid-June. A sharp, microsecond drop in the evening light. A sudden, violent flicker of absolute blackness right before the sun dipped into the Taiwan Strait. The local forums blamed the offshore green-energy grids. They have no idea what’s actually happening.

Welcome to the new era of The Oblique Angle Project.

Moving forward, this space is evolving from a standard photo-journal into a dark, calculated storytelling experiment. I am taking the raw, real-world analog monochrome rolls I shoot across Taiwan, constructing cinematic sci-fi thriller frameworks around them, and collaborating with my AI companion to polish the final prose into a high-tension, atmospheric escape.

Issue 02 is officially live, and the new era starts right now.

Plunge directly into THE LAGRANGE VARIANT // Part I: The Vertex Anomaly.

Follow Liang, an ex-insider who knows too much, as he races across Tamsui Fisherman's Wharf to capture mathematical proof of a multinational conspiracy—a cover-up hiding an artificial general intelligence in deep space, a looming planetary catastrophe, and an elite evacuation plan known as Project Exodus.

The Constraints Are Absolute:
📸 Raw, high-contrast monochrome frames from my lens.
⏱️ A narrative structured for a strict 10-minute maximum read.
🤫 A complete, tactical escape from the mundane daily routine.

The lens stays analog, but the reality is about to bend. Step through the trench and read the premier episode for free here:



* The Oblique Angle Project is an episodic creative writing and analog street photography experiment. The technical specifications, conspiracies, and global events detailed in "The Lagrange Variant" are purely fictional narratives constructed around real-world landscapes for entertainment purposes.

04/07/2026

Toning down the noise usually means stripping away the color - but sometimes, the environment demands otherwise.

As deeply as I prefer the quiet constraint of black and white, you must agree that this particular scene looks much better in color. The brilliant midday blues and the sharp contrast of the red flag against the harbor simply tell a better story today.

Captured on an iPhone 17 Pro. A brief, colorful intermission before we load the next roll of film.

04/07/2026

Toning down the noise before the day starts.

There is a distinct serenity in those few, still minutes before the family wakes up—just you, a quiet room, and a hot jug of pour-over coffee.

I captured this moment with my iPhone 17 Pro and stripped away the color. Looking at the rendering, it sparks an interesting question for the community: where do you draw the line between a digital monochrome conversion and true black-and-white film? Can digital ever fully capture the emotional weight of analog grain?

Wishing you all a calm morning and weekend ahead. Share your thoughts below.