have been collaborating with sound designer Daisy Moreno on sounds to accompany the immersive space expereince- here is an early draft (not the final)

i thought it would be cool to share with you what the final space i decided on looks like- It was...

other visual renderings of the visuals to appear in the space: I have been working extensively...

REALFLOW TEST RENDER Water particles via RealFlow and Maya. Test Render for water caustics and...

after hours of programming I have almost completed my visuals for display there is a set range...

the progress! chose a black/white/copper color palette- need to stitch together but once its...

the following are notes from the early beginnings of the concepting of this project as I am...

chakras of the body

funny how naive i was to think that by changing environemnts I could change the way people think. And so naive of me to think everything is black and white. but now, i realize how relevent artificiality and misinterpretation is in my life. irony of being immersed in nature and beauty tangiblity, but living like robots. programmed to work, do what...

This is the name of a 1986 sonic entrainment piece composed by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, which combines brainwave entrainment frequency patterns with music: (approx. 40 min. -- may take a while to load) Articles on entrainment: + via Wikipedia + via Jonathon Goldman's Healing Sounds

Details for my book detailing the process of my project: -In an accordian style, to be able to...

I was thinking about my project earlier and I started to remember this story about shadows. How...

How many dimensions are there? Really? Three spatial dimensions commonly known as width, length,...

I picked up an article a couple years ago after hearing about siggraph and an intelligent clothing...

four angle viewings of the spa

So, with classes, extracurriculars, and the rest of my life sabotaging my project, I have found that the footage I find of my living atmosphere must be powerful, and perfect. However, that has proven to be difficult so far because of circumstance. I do not have my own car to travel to possible locations, bad. Locally, UCLA does not provide...

I have lived in Los Angeles for nearly three years now, and have always wondered where all the...

I'm now collaborating with Peter and Muskan in designing sounds for the project OPEN. The goal is to have a single sound piece comprised of 4 or 5 individual arrangements transitioning into each other, with each being associated with a different event/mood one can experience while navigating around within the OPEN healing...

ZERO GRAVITY WATER The installation will demonstrate the metaphysical properties of water in...

CLAPPER = UNMOVED MOVER I will be collaborating with Joe Liao to create an interactive video...

water- cold fusion. much of world’s energy problems would go away cold fusion -...

I just remembered this one really inspiring Animatrix clip from a couple years back. It's part of...

I've realized that I'm obsessed with places and spaces, I know that. I'm very much a visual thinker, interesting enough one of the people I researched was a visual thinker too, Nikola Tesla, not that I'm as brilliant as him. I'm getting off the the point, I'm obsessed with these spaces, especially secret spaces, hidden places, the unknown;Deep...

Recently I've been researching a few different things: 1. Russian Ark A pretty amazing movie that...

Activities and and all other things in life fall into repeating cycles. We are governed by...

I've been particularly fascinated by the works of Bill Fontana, in which his approach to sound is...

(click above image to launch site) Beautiful site with this interesting photograph of plants...

first rendering of our space We forsee certain afflictions when living in a space colony...

First Rendering of our Space. Solving the afflictions of a claustrophobic space colony, we...

Boards of Canada's first official music video, created by reassembling bits of found...

I saw this on digg. I especially enjoy the commentary about computers being the next drug. If so, I am an avid abuser. :) Linky

font reflects openness, modernity [could be retro-modern], human [not rigid], democratic, liberal, confident, legible [not necessarily at first, but once used it becomes really legible], huggable, personality, not generic but not crazy, looks good, lower case 'a' has a hat [not necessary but would like], can use in future design work [if i have...

sign 2 looks like an envelope. i'm thinking i need to find another font than...

CALTRANS downtown building

PRESUPPOSITION the space collective is quite large, it is on the level of a space Manhattan/city or a reasonable size that requires a wayfinding system. PLAN physical visual clutter is a problem. for the most part this wayfinding system would not rely on physical signs. instead the system is ephemeral. this can be done in several ways:...

I have been looking into the way our bodies react to surprising moments, whether it is ignited by...

Actual Elelemnt from nature // Where we came from Elements found only in space...

LOOK UP_Meggs, Philip, and Rob Carter. Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces. Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1993, p. 163. ISBN 0-442-00758-2._wikipedia Swedish Moose Warning Sign FRUTIGER 'Ascenders and descenders are very prominent, and apertures are wide to easily distinguish letters from each other.'_wikipedia glow in dark signage

Gotu Kola powder German Chamomile flower powder Tulsi powder Juniper...

body wrap spa: Xanadu