George Crumb Is a contemporary composer who, as it turns out graduated from University of Michigan. Awhile back I mentioned some people that crossed the line between visual arts and music. Recently I have been introduced to a few contemporary piano composers. While I still have a hard time hearing and understanding music, I have come to enjoy some contemporary compositions. The sheet music itself is […]
3D Printed Silver Jewelry Collection Ever since I learned jewelry design in Thailand I have been messing around in my makeshift studio (completely modeled after P’Boom’s studio). I have made a few handmade pieces and gotten into tumbling rocks to make my own unique shapes for stones to incorporate in my work. Hand making jewelry is a nice calming experience, however, I was recently […]
While the past few weeks in the Digital Technologies program has been loaded with fun and, well, technology, I have been craving some tactile sculpting. Today I spent the first couple hours of the morning baking pumpkin seeds and carving a pumpkin. Although the people around me thought I was weird for cutting away all the orange of the pumpkin, they understood when it […]
Over the summer I spent two months in Chiang Mai Thailand. I am an avid traveler and it is wonderful to have family living in Thailand, making it extremely accessible. Last year I met Thailand artist Sirilak Samanasak(aka P’Boom) and have kept in touch with her since. I was fortunate enough that she not only let me use her studio to do work all summer, but […]
I worked on this project with a small group of people from the even “Electronic Lunch” that I facilitated last year and will continue to do this year. We have been given many compliments on the work as it was a project completely done on free time with a diverse group of people. We are currently working on a collaboration with some other people […]
While working on my thesis project I took on some roles for extra projects. In Design Lab 1 there is an event every week called Electronic Lunch in which I was hired to run this semester. At the end of the semester I thought it would be nice to display some of the work happening with the Electronic Lunch group and get some interest […]