Made some good technological improvements this week. Got Solidworks installed and upgraded the RAM on my Dell. This dell is a beast weighing in at 7 3/4 pounds a freebee from a few jobs back. Solidworks does not run on Mac The video above shows the movement of the sunset and sunrise wedges and a…

Tristan and I hung out and did some work this week. Tristan got some code running to translate time into motor steps based on sunrise and sunset times from a table. actually making a little motor moving! I got some models built up in CAD. Lambda: I got a sketch built up (that moves if…

Started collaborating with Tristan on a Arduino powered clock of sorts. Here is what that may look like: Lambda style mechanism: The lambda linkage saw little applied use…until now? Opening and closing fins: two curtains move to indicate the sunrise and sunset times. you can watch as your days shorten and expand on the way…

Continuing thoughts from last week: multiple projects at once, a daily prac, something else, something else completely different etc…..Activation energy of any of these projects could be lowest and therefore starts the creative juice just going. projects inform each other. I started writing again this week. just a page each day (formerly was 3 pages).…

Had a good convo with a new bud Derek (very cool instagram)- Discussion: how the monetary cost or physical beauty of a blank material can make ones mind compare your artistic worth to the potential worth of that material – causing stagnation and artistic anxiety. That unspoken pressure of a new notebook or journal to…

The words hereafter are just opinions that assert lawful truths and should be taken as subjective: I have decided that documenting travel for oneself (no audience) should first start with a reflection of how well you recall words/conversations and images. Whatever you are weaker at you should focus your attention in documenting. Secondly, depending on…

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Updated the Infinite scroll this week by feeding everything through the scanner as opposed to my iPhone. I got the look i want. still drawing every day – 35 minutes per session now. also moved it to its own page -> see on left in sidebar. designing either a t-shirt or patch design for my…

I was a bit of a sad sack last week. I also possibly have tendonitis in my left wrist, making it a bit painful to type with my left hand. so this will be brief. I was feeling overwhelmed last week since it felt like I had so much learning to do and also not…

Peering out the window I realize my artistic skill has hovered at the same plane for a long time – years of study in my early life built me to this point. My skills retained are ones that are used to communicate ideas and have thus remained sharp: invention or hand drawn buildings or drawing…