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Trade Shows and Exhibits
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOvertone Role: Designer, Creative DirectorContext: Market Research EventLocation: ChicagoAudience: Fortune 500 prospects Zecco Role: Designer, Creative DirectorContext: The Money ShowLocation: San FranciscoAudience: Investors, Consumers
Zecco Free Lunch
Reading Time: 4 minutesRole: Sponsor, Designer, Creative DirectorContext: Company Launch Event Location: Wall Street, New York CityAudience: General public, financial services workers, media Experiential production in public to launch free-commision stock broker. At Zecco, I oversaw the marketing efforts to bring this online stock trading company to market, building from zero to 140,000 customer accounts over two and … Read more
No You’re Hallucinating
Reading Time: 2 minutesRole: Artist, Designer, DeveloperContext: Burningman 2024Location: Black Rock CityAudience: 80,000 festivalgoers Freestanding interactive art installation The idea: With the ubiquity of ChatGPT, and its incessant cheerleading and positive optimism, we wanted to explore an LLM model with a different personality. Embracing Dadaism, the piece reflects on the absurdity and humor of AI. It questions technology’s … Read more
Sphinx Gate
Reading Time: 2 minutesRole: Designer, DeveloperContext: Interactive art installation Location: UnScruz 20225, Burningman 2025Audience: Festivalgoers Interactive art installation at UnScruz 2025 and Burningman 2025 The idea: The objective of the piece was to help participants connect their personal experiences to theuniversal patterns and archetypes that shape us all. Six participants at a time conversed with an AI through … Read more
6-hour Bicycle Tour of West Oakland
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m moving to Oakland this week. I’m also working with a startup that’s building a marketplace for travelers to connect with “localites”, experts in the area they are visiting. To get a feel for the value of a locality, I put together an itinerary that I would take my friends on to get a feel … Read more
Scrolling Ticker Ring
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe scrolling ticker substrate is a ring suspended from the top of the hyperboloid tower. The ring will be made up of 3 6″ x 16 ft. sections of 1/8″ Masonite. Each section is made up of four pieces of 6″ x 8 ft. Masonite lapped together and secured by sets of 4 small bots … Read more
Platform
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMidway up the structure, we need to have a platform to support the power systems. This platform can also stiffen the structure serving transfer tension and compression forces around the helix. I wanted it to be able to support several hundred lbs. of weight that a person and a generator might add up to. At … Read more
Structure – Bamboo poles out, lodge poles in
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur first design for the structure called for 2″ diameter bamboo poles arranged in a helix pattern to form a 14 ft. hyperboloid tower. Each pole was going to be made up of two 8ft. pieces of bamboo cane coupled by using a two-foot 1″ round dowel inserted parallel through the middle of the cane. … Read more
AI-powered Wardrobe: Wardobe-ai.com
Reading Time: 7 minutesI tried out a new beta of an AI-powered wardrobe generator. It is all it's cracked up to be.