Booth 800, South East corner of Expo Hall. If you’re near San Mateo CA, stop by.

I just finished up a new little piece titled “Zip Synch” and added it to the portfolio section of my site.

Be sure to watch the video and see them grind their little zipper teeth.

Here is another fetishized mercury switch for a new piece.  I have a collection of these things and every once in a while I can’t resist building one up like the jewel I think it is.  This one, like so many others spent its life sealed up in a dreary thermostat.  Shine little blob of mercury, shine.

Goli Mohammadi wrote a very thoughtful and thorough article about my studio/gallery collective “Lost & Foundry” for issue 34 of Make Magazine.  Our combined interests in making, sharing and promoting art are discussed as well as personal profiles of myself, Jeremy Mayer, Christopher Palmer, and Alan Rorie.

The people at Make have been hugely supportive of artists and makers like myself over the years and it is a pleasure to have our story told in their magazine.

Here is a link to a partial web preview of the article:

http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol34/?pg=30&pm=2&u1=friend

Shown here are some wooden shoe stretchers on their way to being a pair of homunculus workers who will power the machinery inside my next large figurative piece.

I’m pleased to share these images of two of my sculptures (“Cycloptopus” and “Doubtful“) on display in the windows at Barneys New York in San Francisco (77 O’Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94108).  They will be installed for about three weeks.

I’m pretty excited about this little piece.  The mechanism turns some cranks inside each of the film canister “heads” causing them to sort of yawn, and grind their zipper teeth.  Expect LEDs inside the eyes etc.

I first used one of these canisters in my piece “Head Case #2“.

I recently made the decision to mount a large panel meter in a wooden radio cabinet for a project I’m working on.  I wasn’t pleased with how the square edges of the meter clashed with the curved lines of the cabinet though.  This image shows some of the steps involved in making the two elements work better together.  I’m still debating whether or not to paint the meter with black wrinkle paint, or leave it bare.  We’ll see…

Oh yeah, and the “eyes” were once indicator lights, but now have little numeric counters installed.  When powered they will display rotating digits.

It’s pretty unusual for me to find myself making multiples of parts.  Lately I’ve been working on a figure that will have four arms, so I’ve had to make an exception.  Shown here are the individual pieces that will make up the shoulder joints.  The motor mounts and cranks will come later.

A short while ago Michael Sturtz gave me a nice old radio.  You can see from the “before” image on the left that its face had been damaged.  Upon seeing it I immediately worried that it would displace the head I had been developing for a large scale figure I was working on.  Well, this turned out to be the case.  The radio has since evolved into some kind of Chihuahua / Bat / Monkey creature.  I’m currently working on a little machine that will cause the eyebrows to pivot back and forth on their center.

The good people at Recology just sent me this image of my work on display in the United terminal at the San Francisco Airport.

It’s part of a large exhibition of work done by their artists in residence over the years.

“We are pleased to announce that The Art of Recology will open March 16 in the United Terminal at the San Francisco International Airport. The exhibition presents over one-hundred pieces made by forty-five artists during their residencies at Recology. Artwork was selected by airport curators and will be on exhibition through October 27. The Art of Recology is located past security so can only be viewed by those traveling, but if you find yourself flying United soon, allow some extra time to view the exhibition.”

A few weeks back I had the honor of participating in the Liu Lecture Series in Design at Stanford University.

I’ve posted video of the lecture in two segments here.

I just finished up a little trophy deer head commission.  In a slight departure from similar works I left the original Craftsman sander info plate on the nose.  It makes it easier to identify the found object nature of the piece.  I’m pleased with how it turned out.

I’m working on a new large piece that I would like to have four arms.  This is tricky because it means finding twice as many matching parts as usual.  I think I’ve settled on a design I like that I can replicate.  It consists of bean scoops, table legs, pipe elbows, coffee pots, and some strange industrial wooden spindle things I cant identify.  Ideally the wrists, elbows, and fingers will have a little bit of adjustability so that each arm can have a slightly different pose.

I’ll be giving a free lecture about my work and process tomorrow evening (Thursday, Feb. 28) for the Stanford Design Program.  It will be from 6-7pm in building 550 on the Stanford Campus.

Click here, or on the attached flyer for more info.

Assuming I don’t totally blow it I’ll post video when its available.