Disconnect, Michigan

Michigan gets a bad rap. Newscasters have thrown around terms such as wasteland or dystopia when describing our mitten-shaped neighbor. All of the gloom makes this peninsula seem uninhabitable. Despite visions of empty factories and urban prairies, it’s not true.

Disconnect, Michigan

Michigan gets a bad rap. Newscasters have thrown around terms such as wasteland or dystopia when describing our mitten-shaped neighbor. All of the gloom makes this peninsula seem uninhabitable. Despite visions of empty factories and urban prairies, it’s not true.

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Pine Tree Art Museum

Environmental art is beautiful and fascinating, but often inaccessible.  This exhibit collects famous works of environmental art in miniature form, made out of found materials.  Situated at the base of a particularly thick tree, “The Pine Tree Art Museum” aims

Pine Tree Art Museum

Environmental art is beautiful and fascinating, but often inaccessible.  This exhibit collects famous works of environmental art in miniature form, made out of found materials.  Situated at the base of a particularly thick tree, “The Pine Tree Art Museum” aims

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Spectrum

This is my underwear, on a wall.

Spectrum

This is my underwear, on a wall.

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Trapped in Amber

This is the short story of one man who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Song featured: “Hiraethus” by Daedelus.

Trapped in Amber

This is the short story of one man who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Song featured: “Hiraethus” by Daedelus.

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This Cake Will Change Your Life

Centered around a faux cake made of salt, this performance was conducted by a theatrical carpet bagger selling an audience on the restorative benefits of his false confection.  The animated gif below was projected upon the carpet bagger while he

This Cake Will Change Your Life

Centered around a faux cake made of salt, this performance was conducted by a theatrical carpet bagger selling an audience on the restorative benefits of his false confection.  The animated gif below was projected upon the carpet bagger while he

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Fiction Sample: Imperfections

PDF: Imperfections “There they were, faint beneath the inhuman glow of fluorescent lights. Boxes and boxes of idyllic little porcelain figures lay stacked and waiting. This was today’s job. This was tomorrow’s job. Tiny hand painted toddlers were about to

Fiction Sample: Imperfections

PDF: Imperfections “There they were, faint beneath the inhuman glow of fluorescent lights. Boxes and boxes of idyllic little porcelain figures lay stacked and waiting. This was today’s job. This was tomorrow’s job. Tiny hand painted toddlers were about to

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Non-fiction Sample: Ante Masry?

PDF: Ante Masry? “In a taxi cab two wide we sat three across.  No seatbelts buckled us in, rather we were glued together arm to arm, squished intimately between the car doors.  Outside of our windows Cairo as we knew

Non-fiction Sample: Ante Masry?

PDF: Ante Masry? “In a taxi cab two wide we sat three across.  No seatbelts buckled us in, rather we were glued together arm to arm, squished intimately between the car doors.  Outside of our windows Cairo as we knew

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Bubbles

Times have been hard lately and people are looking a bit glummer than usual. I decided to head down to Lansing and Cleveland with a backpack full of bubbles and see what I could stir up. This happy video is

Bubbles

Times have been hard lately and people are looking a bit glummer than usual. I decided to head down to Lansing and Cleveland with a backpack full of bubbles and see what I could stir up. This happy video is

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Sixteen Tons

Using stickering/graffiti and lyrics from Tennessee Ernie Fords’ song, “Sixteen Tons,” I wanted to draw a connection between coal mining days past and the tenuous ties Lansing (and greater Michigan) has to the auto industry. Song featured: “Great Day (Instrumental)”

Sixteen Tons

Using stickering/graffiti and lyrics from Tennessee Ernie Fords’ song, “Sixteen Tons,” I wanted to draw a connection between coal mining days past and the tenuous ties Lansing (and greater Michigan) has to the auto industry. Song featured: “Great Day (Instrumental)”

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Demian

This is a compact visual retelling of the novel Demian, by Herman Hesse. Made in the vein of a cinematic trailer, construction paper characters and type were created, scanned, and then manipulated in after effects. Song featured: “Long Live Mice

Demian

This is a compact visual retelling of the novel Demian, by Herman Hesse. Made in the vein of a cinematic trailer, construction paper characters and type were created, scanned, and then manipulated in after effects. Song featured: “Long Live Mice

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Snow Graffiti: Protest With Kool-Aid

Snow Graffiti is a quick documentary taken as an experiment was fleshed out. The idea: Snow provides an incredible blank canvas, so why not take advantage of it? In our case, we wanted to bring to light the ecological practices

Snow Graffiti: Protest With Kool-Aid

Snow Graffiti is a quick documentary taken as an experiment was fleshed out. The idea: Snow provides an incredible blank canvas, so why not take advantage of it? In our case, we wanted to bring to light the ecological practices

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Notacon

I was invited to speak at Notacon ’08 in Cleveland, Ohio. Here is the quick blurb: “How can art and technology collide to add humanity to a world increasingly filled with non-places? Using his own project, Invisible Narrative, as an

Notacon

I was invited to speak at Notacon ’08 in Cleveland, Ohio. Here is the quick blurb: “How can art and technology collide to add humanity to a world increasingly filled with non-places? Using his own project, Invisible Narrative, as an

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