for joshua muir, of frances cycles and the bike church. just in time for NAHBS.
2D Foundations
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
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
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
Selected student work from another incredible quarter teaching 3D Foundations with Prof. Beth Stephens for UCSC’s Visual Art Deptartment.
kepler app
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
and our daughter Tuli is coming out soon to meet us.
Finished Projects
A few of the many terrific projects made in this class:
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Introduction to Drawing, with Paul Rangell
Select drawings from my students in Art 80A, Intro To Drawing with Professor Paul Rangell, Spring 2011.
building: a how-to
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