The frame of this is galvanized “plumber’s tape”, wire hangers and paperclips. The skin is handsewn leather, with rooster feathers. When it was built, it walked forward, but for some reason, after the skin was fitted it only walked backwards. I’m not really sure why. Its eyes are made out of christmas tree lights.
Archives for January 2006
Baby Mobile of Death
Here’s a little mobile I built as a gift to a friend’s newborn son, to hang over his crib (I’m not sure if the parents ever decided to put it there, though. Maybe a wise decision). The little rods hanging below the apparatus have little rare-earth magnets embedded in the ends, and magnets with the […]
Survey of Work up to 2006
Here’s an old video from a show I had in 2006 at the Jonathan Shorr Gallery in Soho, NYC. It’s got a lot of work in action, as well as stupid soundbites from me.
AutoGamelan
the control mechanism is made of differently sized pulleys, rotating at slightly different rates, and tripping a switch with every revolution. Each switch activates a solenoid, which drives a hammer against a pyrex pot lid, or a length of aluminum tubing. Because the timing of each actuator is slightly different from one another, the hammer […]
