LUCY is a magical drawing tool
The LUCY is a drawing tool I wish I had in art school. The device has been around for 500 years and though it uses no electricity, it’s able to project images from your environment onto your drawing pad. The...
My sister’s Chewbacca piñata costume
A few weeks ago my good friend John Park created a video demonstration of how to hack the famous Happy Chewbacca mask to trigger your very own audio files. And when my sister Christina told me she was building a Chewbacca-Pinata costume for...
This camera obscura makes me happy
I have a thing for beautiful wooden boxes, and I absolutely lose my mind when they perform magical feats. My friend Les Cookson recently sent me a prototype of a Camera Obscura he’s been working on and just looking at...
The serene robot art of KMNDZ cannot be undone
There’s no going back for the rust belt, but there is wonder—and inspiration—in metaphor When you live in or near Detroit, Michigan, there is a magnetic pull towards a job in the automotive industry. For me it just...
This Zoetrope will have you mesmerized
From a very young age, the illusion of motion fascinated me. I would spend hours and hours destroying the books in my parents’ library by creating crude, hand-drawn flipbooks in the margins. Pictured below is a rare 1890s...
The Amazing 4 Corners Project
My favorite professor — the one who influenced me the most, was Michigan-born artist David Barr. He created iconic public sculptures and conceptual art that can be found throughout the world. If you’ve ever been to Detroit, you’ve...
KettlePizza Creates Pizza-making Geniuses
My wife and I held a pizza pie cook-off last weekend where we supplied the flour, dough and basic toppings. We asked our guests to bring exotic items to personalize their creations and there was even a trophy...
This Zoetrope will have you mesmerized
From a very young age, the illusion of motion fascinated me. I would spend hours and hours destroying the books in my parents’ library by creating crude, hand-drawn flipbooks in the margins. Pictured below is a rare 1890s...