Holy cow I made a lot of art. I really make a lot of time to create this stuff and enjoy cramming in a huge amount of content to a very small space. Logistical practicalities like “needs storage” or “3x3x2' size in truck” are a bummer. Things that pack small…

I built a few things and I had fun bringing interactive art installations to events. Building Things I like building things, but not if they’re pointless. It’s sad when I make an art object and have nowhere to put it, no one to show it to, and nowhere to display it. I…

When we talk about who is making art for an event, we often talk about “the crew.” The term “crew” sounds very organized and committed; I was always intimidated. Really, though, art crews are just some people working together for a specific project. …

This was a time of fun, with mass vaccination precipitating Hot Girl Summer! Basically all my projects during this time were ridiculous interactive pieces to make events more fun. I delivered at many events, always with several projects. …

This was an amazing time of rapid transition for me, from COVID lockdown to first vaccination. I got a one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine in March, so was feeling confident to play outside my “pod” by April. The transition wasn’t instant, but outdoor playing became much more acceptable, and so…

The dark days of COVID winter were not my most productive period, but I think I was busier than usual with work (product launch time) and did a good job developing some old patterns into high form. Swings In Q4–2020 we stumbled across a broken swing, which Renee and Lydia fixed…

Staying at home so much is difficult in many ways. For me, it is quite sad to have no audience for whom I might produce art. Earlier in quarantine times, I have made art for events, for the street, and for my home. By the fourth quarter of this long…

Precis of Narrative Fixation in Economics by Edward Fullbrook — Supply and demand, market equilibria, utility, and revealed preferences; the conventions of economics are largely neoclassical ones. However, since the publication of an open letter by French economics students in 2000, it is increasingly clear that the world is ready for other approaches. Edward Fullbrook’s Narrative Fixation in Economics makes…

Notes on the O’Reilly book UX Research by Brad Nunnally and David Farkas — Somewhat helpful as a field manual, somewhat helpful as a guide to selling the esoteric commodity, this is a decent book with some good content, mostly around interviewing. Why Do UX Research? There is a good reason that research exists in the social sciences. I think of it like this: there exist a number…