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Oil Painting During the Second Renaissance

Hey everyone! Many of us have found ourselves with a lot more free time than we ever expected. It has been a great chance for personal growth and healing! Part of the process for me has involves trying out new things, or rediscovering with old hobbies.

When I was a student I use to oil paint every single day for like... 4 years!! crazy!?! ...

Ahoy! Fellow Soldiers of the Apocalypse!

First, I hope everyone out there is doing well, and that your tribe is safe and healthy.

No matter what your take on things is, it's been a hell of a year so far. In many cases, an emotional rollercoaster of sorts. 

Amidst the shit storm of social-unrest and disease... I have been on something of a healing journey, where I have ...

The Season of Spice is Here

It's Fall now! What is everyones favorite way to get into the season changing mood?

As a child, my mom use to take me to the local cider mill in Michigan to get a dozen fresh cinnamon donuts and unfiltered cider... SO - the tradition has since followed that on the first of October, I seek out some vestige of pumpkin-spice donuts and eat th...

New Ambiance for a Fresh Series of Videos

The Summer has not gone as I’ve expected so far. This is alright however, I welcome the change of pace.

The catalyst was an unplanned span of time where I was without my primary laptop for several weeks. I was not able to edit video, publish things in the wild, work on web-site stuff, or even draw with my tablet in Photoshop. My life as ...

Project: Chicken Noodle

At the end of May I've decided to switch my focus from SHE BON and the augments I've been toiling away at, onto my two immobile robot offspring.

This is : "NoodleFeet" and the less known "Carl" <3

The two were technically born in the same...

Neck Sucking SOOOON

I just want you to know that we are getting painfully close to mechanized neck sucking... and I'm really very excited about that O_o

I received the controller board for the Suck Choker from fab this Monday, and have since assembled and tested one with Mark. All that is left to do is connect the suckers to the motorized syringes with some s...

There will be drawing...

If you ask me, I’ll tell you that the SHE BON project is a series of wearables that senses and indicates arousal. That’s the low impact description.

If I were to be completely honest though, I can admit that the project is an elaborate coping mechanism that has followed a period of self discovery prompted by unpacking emotional baggage...

a Back Rack of Syringes

I woke up today and prepared myself to do annoying CAD design. 

One of the things I've been putting off is making a mounting plate for two different SHE BON augments that need to overlap and thus share space without inhibiting each others function.

The mounting plate will seat on top of my back and capture a central stalk for th...

April: the Month of Suck

Suck Choker & Squeeze Choker

This month I began developing my first new SHE BON augment of the year! I haven’t really decided on a name for it yet, but for now I’ve been referring to it as the “Suck Choker”. As the title suggests, it is a device worn on the users neck which replicates the experience of someone�...

Spring Heat

It's mid April-ish now already. This means two things:

• I get to find out if any of my seeds germinated
• It's going to get hot very soon

By seeds... I mean, if I am to receive any of the grants and residencies I applied for earlier this year. It's like waiting to hear back from the colleges you applied for all over...

I'm still here.

it's that time of year again where I sit on the couch and prepare proposals and submission materials for things, the likes of which will shape the months to come. My days are quiet and boring, so I've been keeping to myself as to get the practical part of my adult life handled and out of the way... then I can return to the fun artist part. ...

I'm making a tap floor O_o

Hi everyone! I hope you're all acclimating to the Fall/Winter season fairly well!

I just wanted to let you know how your support is fueling my madness this month... as I feel you have a right to know:

So I'm going to let you in on a little secret that I don't typically tell people unless I'm drinking and ranting about my childhood. I use to...

Hackaday Prize Finals

I entered SHE BON into the HackaDay Prize in the Human-computer interface category. =O 

I made it through the first round of submissions so I'm technically in the running for the Prize itself......... which is exciting. It however has also dropped a hefty todo list on my lap for this month so far. 

Happily, I'm almost done with al...

Busy and kinda anti-social

Hi everyone! I just ordered this thing last night (a nice mic!): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078RZZ927/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3SPLR0MSOYZ8O&psc=1

...with the intent of getting back on a regular s...

All things SHE BON

It's October 2nd (I missed the 1st). 

I hope everything has been going well with you and that you've made your peace with summer. It already feels like Fall here in my part of the country; the kitty pool has been deflated and folded up, the weather is cooler, and I'm preparing for the talk I'll be giving at HackaDay's SuperCon in November. 2018-10-03 00:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Training Session no. 5!

...He can see everything, accept his pizza. O_o weird as hell, cause it seems like a triangle with big red spots on it would be pretty easy to identify. Guess not.

Since Noodle will need to recognize not only my face, but also the faces of potential onlookers in the gallery space, I may need to add either some false positives to his next training...

Hey, I survived the weekend!!

It wasn't my intention to attend DEFCON. I had consciously decided to boycott it in fact. 

This being said, I still wanted to see my friends who would be visiting for the conference, so I planned to bring my own cool-aide to the party and hold the loose and impromptu "noodleCON".

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The Climax of SUMMER

It's about mid August: the time of year I start to feel this special anxiety.

I'm not certain whether the feeling is caused by approaching deadlines, the social expectations of Defcon, or the cabin fever brought on by locking myself indoors for weeks at a time while avoiding the desert heat... but whatever the cause, I'm a bit nutty again.

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In the heat of Summer

First. To those of you who are my newest patrons: thank you. Your support makes my rocking world go 'round, and is appreciated more than you know!!

It's an intense summer so far. Every year I anticipate the disappointment of a lull relative to the previous one... but this hasn't happened yet (and this is of course very good!).

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