This is my first stuffed animal, made to keep company to Stephanie Wong‘s beloved creature. I learned how to crochet at Haystack this summer, and put a lead weight in the bottom of this gal to keep her standing up. I think she is in her awkward adolescent stage.
3 tier whale thing
I learned that if you add a light dimmer to a power drill you can control the speed. So I hooked one up to the beautiful old Black and Decker Steel Drill I got from Shelly’s grandpa, and used it to control the mechanism on this 3 tier whale thing, made for the 12-hour shelf [...]
plywood stump
I am thinking I would like to make an entire tree out of plywood, plant it, photograph it, chop it down, and mill it into plywood as a futile loop.
my desk at risd
So, lastnight around 2AM, after a suprise ice cream / vino verde delivery, I started organizing my mess of a workspace at RISD. Shouting along with the Pixies, making shelves, stacking wood, sorting old bits of electronics, at some point I noticed an orange smudge on the wall. I turned around and the sun had [...]
earpicker
You know that ear picker you gave me in japan? I still have it – not because its from you though you’re the ex of mine she loves The only other she knows is the virgin whose heart I broke. Cynically. On Purpose. Her Italian boyfriend reputedly hates me for it – its just that [...]
flash fiction
Whil trying to find sopme good examples of interactive narratives, I stumbled across something very different: Flash fiction. There’s a blog about it here, and some great examples by Joseph Young here. I particularly enjoyed this poem-like piece, and thought this one felt like a text-replacement story I organized once at a evening of surrealist [...]
more colgate searle
“As a painting, over time, may reveal an early image laid on canvas before the surface was reworked and covered with subsequent layers of paint (pentimento), so do landscapes reveal to the knowing eye traces of their own history – the biophysical and cultural forces which in combination have shaped them over time…” – ECOLOGY, [...]
cybraceros
Leon Belt did some editing on Cybraceros this summer: a funny-ass yet kick-your-ass short about importing Mexican labor into the US without the Mexicans themselves. A lot of the footage comes from ana ctual bit of government propoganda about old-fashioned fruit-pickers. Very Yes Men.