The Deck of Charlee · Cycle One

Charles Dinkel

Audentes Fortuna Iuvat
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The engraved back of a Fortunes of the Road card — a white Tesla on a mountain road, a handstand, a dancing child, a quill, a film reel, and two QR seals.
Fortunes of the Road · fifty-four cards · printed once

If you are holding one of these cards — someone meant you to have it. Register it below and I will know where it travelled.
If you arrived some other way — welcome. Everything engraved on that card is something being built, and it is all further down.

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Writer · driver · builder · Los Angeles

Get In Touch

Every card is numbered — if you have one, tell me which. If you do not, leave the number blank and write anyway. Enquiries, bookings, collaborations, or nothing in particular.

What you send reaches one person — me. Not sold, not shared, not fed to an advertiser, and there is no tracking anywhere on this page. Ask me to delete it and it is deleted.

The Work

The engraving above is a map. The car, the handstand, the dice, the quill — each one is a thing being built, and none of them are finished.

The Road

Private Drop-offs

A white Model 3 between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Airport drop-offs and long runs, by arrangement. Nearly nine thousand rides, and counting toward ten.

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The Game · Playable Now

Dinkwell's Dungeon

A dark-comedy dungeon crawler for the discerning degenerate. Free in your browser, no account, no install. Forge a hero and take him down five floors.

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The Cabin · Proof of Concept

RideKit

The system running in the back seat — a cabin console built for the passenger rather than the driver. If you rode with me, you have already used it.

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The Practice

Xuan Rosie Yoga

My wife Xuân teaches yoga and movement — handstands, inversions, and the patient work of learning to be upside down without fear.

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The Stage

XuanRosie Dance

Xuân is a professional Vietnamese dancer and performance artist, trained from childhood. Performance, choreography and teaching — traditional, contemporary, and on tour in Europe this autumn.

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Xuan Rosie — Yoga & Dance

Two arms of one practice. Xuan Rosie Yoga is the teaching — handstands, inversions, movement. XuanRosie Dance is the stage — Múa Mâm, the Vietnamese tray dance, and cultural programmes. Vietnam · Germany · California.

Dancexuanrosiedance.com Yogaxuanrosieyoga.com The CompanyXuan Rosie LLC TikTok@xuanrosieyoga Instagram@xuanrosie2022 FacebookXuân Rosie Booking & Enquiriesxuanrosie@protonmail.com

The Deck

Fifty-four cards. Four suits, and each one is a face of a life — what you love, what you dare, what you dream, and what fortune brings. One unbroken thread runs the border of every card in order, and a small pilgrim walks it from the first card to the last. Somewhere in the deck there is a poet who never signed his name.