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Post-graduation life is weird. I’m a little bored, but it’s nice. Tonight I spent three hours figuring out which books I want to display on my coffee table. And then alphabetized the fiction section of my library. I put some essayists in fiction [read: Sarah Vowell + David Foster Wallace] [...]
My new teaching job is going very well, thanks for asking.  The class is learning fast which is fun and great but it means I need to figure out more projects to give them.  Today in class I had them model an iPod.  This is their first real full day of class and I have [...]
I am busy making robotic butterflies / dredgers.  But who isn’t?
City living comes with frustration.  This morning I woke up to move my car as to not get another parking ticket on street cleaning day (I know it’s a holiday, but you can never be too safe).  I had to park a few blocks away on a little side street, though a busy too narrow [...]
Here is some research from my degree project. I like doing info-graphics. I also coined the term diagraphics, which I am sure you can Google search and find hundreds of thousands of other people who coined it; just like every other original idea I have. (click here for the pdf of the full book, [...]
I am in an airport bar drinking overpriced pints of beer. Do you know that a Whopper© meal at the airport costs $8.99? That seems ridiculous. Aside from questioning fast food prices vis-a-vis supermodernism, this is the first moment I have had to relax in nearly 2 weeks. The image [...]
I have some news for you soon… It’s good news.
The opening went well. I snapped a few quick photographs of the projects I was exhibiting. The first (large cardboard) project was done with Ricky Hele and Sipan Nazaryan. The Second (plaster bone wall) was done with Loris Nazarians. Thanks to those who were in attendance, I really appreciate it.
If you live in Los Angeles, and would like to see some art/architecture, please join me in my exhibit opening this friday on Hollywood Blvd. (near Wilcox). The exhibit consists of full-scale structures conceived after studying the organic growth and structure of either coral or bone. I’m up to my ears in cardboard dust and [...]
Yeah. Big decision to make. And I need to make it soon. Anyone have one of those magic 8-ball things? Is there an internet version? I’m gonna go look. [ctrl+t - search "magic 8-ball"] Yep, first result. Question 1: Should i take a year off before grad school and [...]