• Gingerbread House ‘09

    Gingerbread House ‘09

    As much as I enjoyed it last time, it’s taken me a few years to find another December night available...
  • The Invisible Clock

    The Invisible Clock

    So I made a clock. It’s a pendulum clock made of clear acrylic and nested brass tubes. The design of...
  • Nobody Likes A Mess

    Nobody Likes A Mess

    I draw a bit. It gets a little obsess’y sometimes. Here’s a gallery.
  • IKEA hack

    IKEA hack

    I needed a laundry hamper. IKEA trip! But looking around, they only had crappy metal, bright plastic hampers, or ugly-ass...
  • Gimme That Beat

    Gimme That Beat

    I had a need for a probability drumbeat generator, but couldn’t find one, so I created one. What exactly is that?...
  • My 2007 Annual Report

    My 2007 Annual Report

    In 2007, I got a little OCD and started tracking things like bottles of water and candy bars consumed, phone...
  • La Ciel et la Terre

    La Ciel et la Terre

    I worked for a while in France some years ago. I was in the north, in Rheims, and when I...
  • Résumés for Designers

    Résumés for Designers

    Quick! What’s a designer’s job? A few of you just out of art school just said, “To make things look cool.”...
  • Happy Halloween

    Happy Halloween

    I followed this guy’s tutorial to make this year’s pumpkin. Took about two hours. Anyone know how to preserve something...
  • Gingerbread <i>is</i> the Hiz-ouse

    Gingerbread is the Hiz-ouse

    For years, I’ve had this fascination with contemporary folk arts. When we think of “folk art,” we think of spinning...
  • Stained Glass

    Stained Glass

    Well, everyone was trying it, so I had to see what all the excitement was about. I signed up for...
  • I Wish I Had A River

    I Wish I Had A River

    Growing up in Los Angeles, I heard about the “great rivers of the world” with my only frame of reference...
  • FairWaves

    FairWaves

    The Minnesota State Fair hired me to produce a podcast for them. Listen online or subscribe via iTunes.
  • I Voted for Gummi Bears

    I Voted for Gummi Bears

    A show/lecture that I perform, looking at the voting rights of felons.
  • Pysanky

    Pysanky

    How I spend my Easter: