Side Projects

Making the OK Go Rube Goldberg Machine

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

The OK Go ‘This Too Shall Pass‘ Rube Goldberg video is already at 3 million views after three days and looks like it will continue being the most talked about video on the web. It is already the #1 top rated music video on Youtube of All Time! I got involved with the OK Go [...]

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EL Wire Holiday Tree + LED Dog Collar

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

I used 40+ feet of Electroluminescent Wire leftover from halloween to create a glowing tree for some holiday ambience. Since EL Wire does not hold its shape very well I first made a skeleton of two inter-twined coils of multipurpose bendable wire supported by a central trunk. I was then able to attach the EL [...]

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Razzle Videos: Automatic Parameter Control

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Below are two preliminary videos using new parameter control modes that I am working on. In each of these, parameters such as level of background fading, rotation speed and color characteristics are being automatically changed at a pre-determined interval using another control program that I am writing. More information to come. Razzle MIDI Control: Stripes [...]

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Performing live visuals at Stateside

Monday, April 13th, 2009

This past Friday, April 10 I performed live visuals using my animation program for a departmentmate’s band (and their opener) at Stateside bar in downtown Santa Barbara, CA. It was an interesting experience since I had never performed visuals for a public setting before but it was a good time and I made some connections [...]

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