affordance mining is recycling in a sense. "the process of researching (usually hardware) technology, such as the keyboard, touchscreen, traffic lights, etc., to determine their underutilized actionable properties and developing methods of leveraging those properties into innovative forms of interaction between the actor and the technology....

_selected for InputOutput11 magazine 2008 publication Spring 2007, Operating under the...

7 minutes of Mckenna improv. Required listening! ...it's not outer space, it's not some kind of managed Orwellian collectivist paradise, it's something more profound than that. We are perhaps going to download ourselves into a gold ytterbium cube that we will super-cool and bury a thousand feet beneath Copernicus and there all walk on the...

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...

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 -...

preview of interior with new fenestration technique

We sign off on the geometry. Work the interior perspectives. How do you create windows that you...

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

“that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind….” Flashes black, strobe. level 1: (voice of woman,breathless, quick paced. Urgency. “ Our bodies became the last form of identifiable commodity- the last bit of material attachment left for ourselves to hold on to. (echo) And we did just that- held on to it, as if only...

Christian Louboutin Gown

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...

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

Comeing soon ...

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...

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

Is it possible to discuss anything without discussing something else? We talk about wars in...

"Insects are carriers of disease"

Alexis Rockman

The exquisite paintings of Gordon Terry tap into a strange, yet deep seated familiarity.... one...

PATTERN & FENESTRATION FENESTRATION DIAGRAM through fenestration on interior surfaces,...

3D SAMPLE OF FACADE PATTERN AND APERTURES PRECEDENCES

RESEARCH FACADE & INTERIOR

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...

This is an example of an iconographic system I designed for Microsoft Home interface. When thinking...