Upstairs tree mural

With some help from Michael and Rechelle, I started on the tree mural for the upstaris landing. I've had this planned for some time and finally got around to it this weekend. There's still work remaining but pretty good for a few hours work.

Several old videos

I just discovered that someone taped my 2005 talk at the Austin Museum of Art for their 22 to Watch show. It's a 5 minute explanation of the piece I made for that show "Moderation".



Here's another art talk from a show in Sao Paulo, Brazil around 2004. This one also features my friend Adam Chapman talking about his art at the same show.

Gate support v 1.2

I had still more left over material and I felt like it needed a little more so I'm up to v 1.2 on this thing. I threw out the rest of the wood to stop the temptation of adding more!

Radio Interview on Studio 360

My friend Lindsay Patterson produced this really nice piece about my work for Studio 360 this week. Thanks Lindsay, sounds great!

Gate support v 1.1

I thought it needed a little more and I had some leftover material so I added this spiral-y bit.

Gate arch

The gate I made for the side is so heavy that it was causing the post to lean inwards making it hard to open. I couldn't put a tension wire on the opposite side because of an adjacent driveway so my only solution was to add a compression element pushing the post away from the house. To keep with the tree and vine theme I built this from a glued up laminate of 2x2s.

Traitwise coding survey

We're almost ready to release the beta version of our survey engine: Traitwise.com. As a test of the embedded private surveys, I've created this short 10 question survey for my nerd friends to resolve a couple of hypotheses I have about coding styles and coding experience. So, to all my coding friends -- please take a few seconds to honestly answer this survey and to report any bugs or problems you find in the engine.