kyle mckinley

2D Foundations

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:58:15 +0000

The class that I’m a TA for this quarter is called 2D Foundations. My dear friend Richard Wohlfeiler is the instructor, and his assignments are so inventive that I’ve felt compelled to attempt to actually DO the assignments that my students are given for a change. Below are the results.

tuli’s bike

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:04:41 +0000

or “the exploding whale” as I believe it was originally known. Built by Josh, ridden by me! Note the cabbage and lettuces (this cargo bike needs a rear rack after all).

all in one

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:57:34 +0000

Madeline, Tuli and I passed this HP Deskjet All-In-One Jobbie while walking. It seems to have been hurled from a bridge. We found it was rather pretty.

3D Foundations, Fall 2011

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:37:24 +0000

Selected student work from another incredible quarter teaching 3D Foundations with Prof. Beth Stephens for UCSC’s Visual Art Deptartment.

kepler app

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:54:37 +0000

With the guidance of Prof. Jonathan Fortney, our openlab research cluster created an iPad / iPhone / Android app as part of NASA’s “Summer Visualization Workshop.” Our app (forthcoming) encourages users learn about the exo-planets that NASA’s Kepler Telescope has been rapidly identifying. Below are images are of the custom cabinet interface that I built to display the app at the openlab “Art + Astrophysics” exhibition at UC Santa Cruz’s Digital Art Research Center in September and October 2011. Also pictured is a display that helps viewers wrap their minds around the incredible distances to these solar systems by recourse to the relative scale of the site’s vista of the Monterey Bay.

Madeline is really pregnant

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:02:23 +0000

and our daughter Tuli is coming out soon to meet us.

Finished Projects

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:46:10 +0000

A few of the many terrific projects made in this class:
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Introduction to Drawing, with Paul Rangell

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:17:42 +0000

Select drawings from my students in Art 80A, Intro To Drawing with Professor Paul Rangell, Spring 2011.

building: a how-to

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:59:38 +0000

some “workshops” by our building collective at Maker Faire 2011 in San Mateo.
Mostly we played space invaders with screaming children, and admired the dedication of the other makers in the “hacker space” hall that we were placed in.

Video by Nick Lally

Spring Break in Chicago

admin — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:42:35 +0000