Fearmongering Fascistslut

Deployed and ready to fire!

A piece I made for The Cottonwood Club’s This Machine Kills Fascists show. The machine gun-toting stripper can be actuated up or down remotely, as well as the fire control trigger.

What runes do you read?

The Magic Cuil Ball replaces with normal text response of the traditional Magic Eight Ball with a short video reply, leaving the viewer to interpret its meaning. The videos are sometimes violent, sometimes pornographic, and always bizarre.

The term cuil refers to the level of abstraction of a response from true reality. The symbol of the cuil is the Interrobang, shown on the top of the ball.

Activism and apathy.  Flipping the guarded switch reveals the activism facade.

Buzz is a mirror that reflects the state of mind of the user.  Anyone that has recently had a drink or is mildly intoxicated will see a red glow superimposed on their reflection.

Buzz contains a two-way mirror, red LED, alcohol sensor, and various electronics.

Like Throwies with a message, Subversive Streetsigns are meant to be programmed with subversive text and left in public places. Milled from aluminum and fitted with high-strength magnets, they are designed to be installed in and blend in to an urban environment.

Watch video of Subversive Streetsigns here

Chatterboxen is two wooden and brass boxes with large brass horns; one speaks of war, political corruption, and environmental crisis, the other speaks of celebrity misbehavior, acting awards, and hit movies.

The boxen of Chatterboxen contain an Internet-enabled microcontroller reading current news feeds from different sources. They are crafted of birch, acrylic, brass, and replica grammaphone horns.

Listen to the Chatterboxen here.

with Kennedy and Violich Architecture.

Portable Light is a non-profit interdisciplinary research, design and engineering project to provide de-centralized, sustainable lighting and electrical power to serve the large number of people—more than 2 billion—who do not have access to electric light or power. The Portable Light Project began with an idea created and developed by MATx, the materials research unit of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. The MATx team developed design strategies to leverage the extraordinary energy efficiency of low cost, large market HBLED technology, optomize it with digital electronics to work efficiently with flexible photovoltaics and integrate it into energy harvesting textiles that are small, smart and shippable. The goal of the portable light project is to create fully autonomous, off-the-grid light “engines” that can provide durable, energy-efficient illumination to enable better options for household economic self-sufficiency, community based education and health care. Portable Light can be easily folded and can travel with the person who uses it. The flexible textile form works as an optical reflector and provides a material common denominator that is familiar in many different cultures. Portable light is highly adaptable and can be integrated into traditional textiles. This creates the possibility for women who are often among the most vulnerable in developing countries to produce, own and use this technology on their own terms.

Portable Light Pilot projects are currently in place in Mexico, South America and Australia. For more information please visit www.portablelight.org as well as to our web site at www.kvarch.net.

The only function of the Suspicious Looking Device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places.
The SLD contains LEDs, a LED array, a character display, an optical distance sensor, capacitive touch sensor, buzzer, and motors.

Escapement is a literal embodiment of my official job function as “Clockmaker” according to the legal requirements of the Worker’s Compensation program.