Mayday! Mayday!
New piece finished up last minute before our show this weekend!
A stranger in an even stranger land finds himself in peril, desperate for a safe place to land.
Materials:
Radio cabinet, chalk line, license plate light bulb cover, typewriter cooling fan blade, radio tuning knobs, book illustration clippings, fresnel lens, LEDs, motors
(Source: nemomatic.com)
Here is the video for my new piece:
“Cycloptopus” 2012 (65” x 57” x 29”)
Cycloptopus is a fearsome hybrid of two of my favorite monsters, one real, one mythical. This creature is particularly dangerous because of its irritability. You’d be irritable too if you were powered by an open flame and your body was made of wood.
Materials:
Radio cabinets, rocking chairs, fake fireplace, decorative clock elements, cabinet knobs, wall paper, chair parts, lamp parts, wheel hub, motors, LEDs
Here is a video of my short presentation at the Exploratorium in San Francisco last weekend. It takes you through the basic process of making a sculpture, followed by an overview of my work in general.
MSN recently produced a little travel segment about Oakland. I was asked to show Tanya Holland of Brown Sugar Kitchen around my studio and then take a little tour around town. She then returned the favor in her own segment. Check it out!
This video is the first mechanical test of a little climbing monster piece I’m working on.
This little machine will be installed in the head of the large cyclops-octopus-robot thing I’m working on. Its made from a truck wheel hub, a candle holder, the motor from a dollar bill intake machine, some LEDs, and a few other random parts.
Here’s the video for my new piece “Baby Squid”.
Check here for more information: http://tinyurl.com/3fn7hh5
New studio!
As many of you know, I recently lost my studio of many years in Berkeley, CA. Well, its been in the works for about three months now, but I’ve finally settled in to my considerably cooler (bigger!) new studio in Oakland! The attached slideshow documents the process of building out and moving in to the space. The building began its life as a foundry and then sat abandoned for many years. The 1:39 minute mark on the slideshow shows the condition of the place once it was handed over to me (cleared out, new slab floor, plumbing and electrical fixtures). The rest was up to me to figure out. It was a real treat to be able to spread out and design specific work areas and storage areas for raw materials (junk), and finished work separately. I’m thrilled to finally be getting back to work this week, and look forward to begin sharing the results!
Here is the video for my new sculpture “Captain Nemo #3”.
More complete information about this piece can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/4yunjgt
Here is the video for my new sculpture “Anxiety Machine”.
More complete information about this piece can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/3p2k4me
About a month back I did a quick interview on KOFY’s “Creepy KOFY Movie Time” show (TV20 - Cable 13 SF Bay Area). This segment aired between the movie “Bucket of Blood” and comercials.
Here is a quick video I put together after a tour of Rethink Waste’s incredible recycling sorting facility in San Carlos CA. It’s Willy Wonka’s garbage factory!
We installed my sculpture “Nowhere Fast” in the adjoining room, but it really couldn’t compete with all the crazy colors and moving parts in the main building.
Here is a quick video of a new machine I’m working on. This one uses a timing belt and wheel from a BMW as a rack and pinion gear set up. The idea is to attach a figures feet to the two reciprocating bars to produce a “walking” motion. It is my intent to build the system robust enough so that no additional support for the figure is needed. This is a goal that has eluded me in the past, so fingers crossed….
Shown here is a little machine that produces a dizzying visual effect as part of a larger kaleidoscope project I’m working on. The sheets of striped plastic were salvaged from an older rear projection style television.
