Connections Wings of fingers, the analysts glide across the mountains and valleys, fast fourier transforms parallelized over the raw underbelly of what drives us all. Perhaps their accelerated faces can finally...
Ashes ASHES One. They were walking into church, her tiny hand in his, when they turned to ash. What made it worse, terrifying, was that they dissolved into dust slowly, from...
To the Trees To the Trees She went to the trees, all bruised inside and blinking too much. Trunks were the struts, keeping sky from turning all cement and rumbling down her throat,...
Alignment Alignment James called me from his lab, late on a Friday afternoon. He knew my weakness for zany research methods, and we had been friendly ever since his “grand triumph”...
Depression On depression Depression has infinite mouths, all black. In each mouth are teeth, giant plates of shale, slowly grinding away. The confusing knot of throats twisting between them are thick...
ROAD TRIIIIP Jason, Amber, and I just got back from an epic 2-week road trip. I took a lot of photos. Buckle up or scroll at random. Pre-trip art The kitchen will...
Assorted miscellany Nerds are composed of 1/3rd space war, 1/3rd computer parts, and 1/3rd dry ice. Man, the Neurosis LP re-releases look awesome: My front yard growing up before it looks like...
Montanza Ben, Laura, and I road tripped it out to Montana to meet up with a bunch of family and also to see every “World’s Largest Whatever”. First stop: “fixing” Ben’s...
Academy of Sciences Great museum, with nifty planetarium (needs more stars though), tropical jungle butterfly-o-sphere, and aquarium. Oh, and the rolling rooftop garden: also excellent. Some frogs and insects in the tropicosphere. Then...
Big Basin Hiking in Big Basin. A definite must to get out in the redwoods. Hiking with Missi, Aaron, and Clint was so gloriously great. BEGIN HIKING ACTION! Purdy river. We had...
San Francisco San Francisco, such a great time. Here comes a pile of photos from TOURIST MAN! The major side trips are in different chunks, for the Big Basin hike and the...
Miscellaneous photo bin Some photos I was too lazy to take off my camera for a while… Summer brunch on the deck: The gourd patch at its start: (Somehow I seem to have...
Back to Milwaukee Down by the river… Someone’s farmin’ logs I guess. Since I never have pictures of ME, Rebecca manned the camera for a bit and here are some. We jammed some...
Around the house Restriction: Crazy black cello that I can’t play! New shiny hihats! Trying to resolder the pots in an electric mandolin! The garden is growing: The house got restained. Before: After:...
Asphyxiation Something for the Machine of Death 2 compilation. Asphyxiation (One Year) Leaving the soot-encrusted municipal building, crushed hat in hand, Josef heaved a sigh and rolled his eyes at the...
Glacial Drumlin Trail I hiked from outside Waukesha (Sullivan) to Cottage Grove along the Glacial Drumlin Trail. My ankles are still sore, 4 days later. These photos got way out of order, so...
Milwaukee Art Museum + Utech Drone Fest Museum Love that architecture. Even the parking garage is cool lookin’. Here’s where they’re busily offloading the ark of the covenant or whatever… Now, I guess I’m not supposed to...
Florida Some photos from Florida. Taking the convertible out: Out in the wind! Daytona Beach: I have no idea what this dude’s diggin’ up. But we dug some reading in the...
Art I fell off the every-single-day part of the 365 project. Will probably return to it in winter. Until then here are some of the random bits…
Summarize MAN. I have been lazy on updating my crud. Here are some photos from around town. The hobo marathon? At some point there was a hail storm. I had a...
Words Restriction: Work with words. Make an image with just words and letters.
Working on some flyer tests for a local show:
And M has been busy as well:
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Eraser moon Restriction: Create something from erasers.
Turns out you can make neat striations in a kneaded eraser by erasing wet ink and stretching/squishing it.
Dying Restriction: Try dyeing. Use fabric or food dye.
Compassfork Restriction: Create a new utensil.
For when you need to eat your food in perfect circles.
Steven Suils Restriction: Make up a name and write a back story for a stranger you see today. He trudges to work, not really hung over but in that fuzz of the...
GMF continued M sent some more photos from the first few expeditions.
Breaths are being taken.
Also some random show photos I took…
Walking in the Garden of Ma'at Restriction: Use an ear as inspiration. I’m quite sleep-deprived today and I had this little hallucination of a story come to me while walking around listening to Lykathea Aflame -...
GMF Restriction: Be bold. Go to a store that you frequently shop at or a restaurant where you frequently eat and ask what they’ll let you make there. and Restriction: Get...
Snowflex Restriction: Work with the gravel, sand, or rocks available near your home.
It was really muddy, so I worked with the next best thing to sand: tiny metallic beads.
Bleeding feet Restriction: Use all the shoes in your household to make something, or work on a single pair of shoes that were destined for the thrift store. I’m going to tell...
Joy Restriction: Time travel. Make something that seems like it came from another era in history. Joy.mp3 … I wasn’t going to transcribe this, because I like the mystery of the...
Odd Restriction: Work only with numbers. 1. Postcard Inspired by a song from Shining - Blackjazz. 2. Bonus poem one rotting heart two blistered feet in three blinks of an eye,...
Puzzle Gateway Restriction: Make a puzzle or make something with the pieces of a puzzle.
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Heart Restriction: Create something with papier-mache. This took several days of drying because I’m no paper expert. It also may have been a mistake to use the yellow pages. I was...
Elders Restriction: Write a ten word science fiction story. Ten is a rough limit, because it encourages you to dispense with articles. But when you do that, the flow of a...
Almonds Restriction: Go grocery shopping and pick up something specifically to work with. Extra credit for making it in the store? Yeah, not going to do that. Decided to do some...
Tangrams Restriction: Use only the classic tangram shapes. Well, there they are. Fast forward I don’t remember what this was supposed to be, just getting familiar with the shapes I guess...
The Mountains of Fire Restriction: Incorporate yourself into whatever you make. Little odd that this one came right after mask. I was, uhh… inspired (?) by these: (Thanks Jenifer, hah!) Insta-Muppet. So then there...
Boxbot mask Restriction: Create a unique mask using whatever materials you like. This took way longer than it looks to make (cardboard is annoying) and turned out pretty crap. Ahh well. It...
Devoured Restriction: Make something with your dinner before you eat it. When he said, ”I’m of two minds about staying,” that’s when her shadow started feasting. “I know how that goes,”...
Knight Restriction: Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom. Time to whittle soap - pretty old school. I used a...
Shade the Embodied Angles Restriction: Make something that casts a shadow and document only the shadow.
Catharsis Unearned I write this with my knees weak, as if I walked a hundred times the mile home. My eyes are wet. I’m grinning from ear to ear and I don’t...
Mixed media Restriction: Mix and match. Work with two materials that generally don’t go together.
I picked:
Light switches and screws
Paper and crayons
Obvious but fun.
BING.
Kite Restriction: Use a disposable bag to create something new.
In between battles with electricity, I made a phone book bag kite:
Electrical meltdown The circuit upstairs has been in and out (mostly out) for the better part of two months. Today was the day we decided to try to fix it. The only...
Protests A few pictures from my walk to work around the square, as it’s been crazy these past few weeks…
Mass Restriction: Make something heavy seem light.
Was going to add watercolor clouds and colors, but I got lazy.
Dots and cells Restriction: Connect the dots. Make something using only dots.
3x5 card and red ink.
Another piece done huddling in bad light between bands at the Project Lodge.
Try Apathy Restriction: Create a jingle for some object in nature. Bonus points: make a commercial. I think my mom is one of the few people following this stuff, so I’m going...
Unknown Restriction: Make something in which the sense of smell is an essential component. 1. The dust from an inside rim of an old, disused harp as it slides up your...
180 Degrees North Restriction: Work upside down. Create something in such a way that you have to rotate it 180 degrees to display it when it is finished. I’m bending the rules on...
Cuddly Gerald Restriction: Make something that would not normally be considered cute and cuddly into something that is. “Well howdy, my name’s Gerald! Glad to make your acquaintance!” I summoned him a...
The Way Restriction: Be a minimalist. Work only in white materials today. Try working on white for a real challenge. The finished piece, almost unseeable. The way is often hard to spot....
QED Restriction: Quantity over quality. Work with a lot of something. Rearranging kosher salt crystals in the shape of a diagram from Quantum Electrodynamics, which I just finished reading. Good nerdy...
Tall Restriction: How tall can you make something stand on its own? This Braco in America youtubes provided… uhh… inspiration today. It may be somewhat difficult to get at what this...
Anger Flower Restriction: Work with flowers; artificial or real, live or dried, picked or bought. Sorry Mr. Book, I’m not going to buy flowers in the dead of winter for an art...
Portraits Restriction: Face it. What can you do with a face? Well, I was in a writing mood. So I’m going to conjure up some faces with words instead. Portraits His...
Tape stink flower Restriction: Create an image with tape. Well, I’d already made an image with tape recently (gear on my bass drum head!) so I decided to try to sort of sculpt...
Inexplicable package Jason found this package on the doorstep when he got home: It was quite heavy and the only marking on it was that “GW -> AW”, so I cracked it...
Purple-o-scope Restriction: Make something that lights up.
More of the unending supply of purple construction paper must be sacrificed to the elder gods!
YFAGHNETHYN CHTHON’YRIK!
…yeah.
Random photos The walk to work; warm homemade hat thanks to my nice neighbor. This is the Project Lodge, home of bizarre art and music a few blocks away. Am I winning...
Learnins Restriction: Learn something new. Ask a friend to help you do something they’re good at. I picked my friend Dan’s brain about slide guitar and found out what sort of...
Mind control mail Restriction: Turn today’s junk mail into something more appealing.
Of course today is the day I get no interesting catalogs to collage into anything, and just boring political placards:
The End This is a piece Joel gave me for my birthday, the companion to “Everything” on the left here.
The End
THANKS JOEL!! I love it.
Photon Restriction: Make something huge that is normally tiny. Macro photography is not enough, so I made a huge photon. This is a dumb physics joke &em; I’m reading Jeff’s copy...
Macro test Testing out the new camera (thanks Mom and Dad!)… it will be exciting to actually be able to take photos in sunlight again. I also decided to boost the photo...
Steel Restriction: Work with yarn. I don’t have any yarn, and I didn’t plan ahead on this one. Oops. And I even had a yarn idea: MALLETS for the drumset! That’s...
Laundry Restriction: Write a haiku.
Errr, okay…
laundromat exhausts
snow, static crushes the source
no will left to fold
<GONG>
Loop driven Restriction: Work underwater. I was excited to find a MINT IN PACKAGE stack of construction paper on moving day this summer, but I had no idea what I was going...
Bracketed Restriction: Make something with staples or a stapler. Hmm. This happened to fall on a Sunday, so I can’t borrow a stapler from work. And I don’t own any staples....
Arduino assembly Restriction: Work with wire. Didn’t plan it out this way, but I happened to spot a soldering class down at Sector 67 on this night, so my wire project was...
101 Restriction: Use pens as your material or inspiration.
I drew a giant 20x scale crow quill point.
You can barely spot the reference point in this workspace shot:
Temporary Hourglass Restriction: Make something ephemeral. I tried to work with fire but it was too hard to get it to work right; I wanted to briefly set a specific portion of...
Forge a path Restriction: Make a path for people, and invite them to try it out. Camera failure on this one (some days the CCD is cranky, especially so outdoors in the cold.)...
Light Lander Restriction: Make a disguise for a person, pet, or object. combined with the next day Restriction: Work with toys. I made a lunar lander disguise. For a lightbulb. Apparently. I...
School of Dendrites Restriction: Back to school; use traditional school materials like number 2 penciles or lined paper notebooks to make something nontraditional. I took a pencil and used its point and eraser...
Die Trying Restriction: Use a recent dream as inspiration for something you do today. I wrote a song, based partly on a dream. Eventually if I finish the demo I’ll link it...
Portability is hard. Restriction: Make something portable that normally isn’t. I worked on a script to make it simple to shove the photos I take into the website. That’s kind of a portability...
Melt Restriction: Go to your yard or a nearby park to find materials to work with. Well, all I could find out there was a whole bunch of snow, so it...
Waste not Restriction: Dig in a recycling bin for today’s materials.
Engage the PBR-powered inverted Lake Louie launch platform. Or something.
Bridge Restriction: Create a bridge between two things.
(starring Jason)
Ten words Restriction: Write a ten word love story.
Her song angelic, his harmonizing, spiralling joy. Forever entangled now.
Oh, I’m a sap, I admit it.
Sink Restriction: Make something that floats.
Well, you can hardly see from the terrible photos, but I failed at this one.
Baker's Clay Restriction: Buy or make some clay and use it like you never have before.
I made baker’s clay and some bizarre things.
Camera problems:
Post baking colorization:
In a car Restriction: Make something with the items in your car.
Since I don’t have no car, I worked on this site template. Oh so exciting… hooray for Jekyll!
Thread or Die Restriction: Make something inspired by an eye.
Made a pendulum out of a leather repair needle and spattered ink by swinging it around a piece of paper.
Print Restriction: Make a print out of a potato or a sponge and use it to stamp something.
Death Spiral Restriction: Use a dollar bill as inspiration today.
Of course I wouldn’t deface actual money, this is a simulacrum!
OH NO Restriction: Make something microscopic.
Unfortunately from these photos it’s hard to make out just how tiny these are.
(thanks to Jeff for the base idea from long ago)
Tongues Cannot Reveal Restriction: Camouflage. Hide something in the background. Not sure how obvious this one is… I was standing around by myself looking dopey at a random jazz show in the Project...
Sinistral (Left Hand Horse) Restriction: Work with your non-dominant hand in a medium you are familiar with. Well, I know how to use a pencil, right? How hard could it be to draw left-handed...
Only water Restriction: You can only use water as your medium today. It turns out that working with water’s surface tension is extremely interesting. I think this was my favorite so far...
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Restriction: Work with an old book. I took a yellowed old book of Bach orchestral scores and did a multi-media experiment with india ink and collage on two canvases, intended...
Get well soon, Steve Restriction: Work with a stencil. My mailman is down for the count with some pretty nasty cancer for a young guy. The neighborhood folks put together a card and a...
Fruit Restriction: Walk into the kitchen and work with the first fruit or vegetable you see.
Collection Restriction: What do you collect? Work with a collection.
Building or arranging with music, either vinyl or CDs, was too odd. So I stacked some jewel cases together.
Walk Restriction: Take a five minute walk, and make something when you get there. Unfortunately, my camera decided to barf, so unless you saw the temporary sculpture, you’ll never know what...
Frank Lloyd Wrong Restriction: Make something out of paper, but don’t use scissors or glue or draw on it. I took a card sent to me and wove it into a new shape....
Totem Restriction: Use your favorite animal as an inspiration. Totem The migration grows longer every generation. The beaches of our time stretch further, pulled by forces we don’t understand. My mother...
Moonlight Banjo Pteradactyl Restriction: Make something from your immediate environment that fits in the palm of your hand. Well, I sort of broke the palm-size constraint, but: a sculpture from banjo string packets...