Breakfast with Al Pacino is a short film I did starring Sally Arlette for a class. It's about a woman and her special relationship with Al Pacino. It's my first short and I'd love it if you were to watch it.

A high quality version is available here. It loads fast! A low-quality version is available on YouTube.

"Bears on Swings" is a public art installation I did as part of UNBOUND, for our school's art festival. UNBOUND, which I co-curated with my best friend James Pearson, enables students to take their works out of the gallery and studio and place them in a public setting. I built the website and narrated our podcast which James composed. It's good! I participated last year with my piece, "Call Your Mom" and co-curating with James was great.

I have a lot to say about UNBOUND, which has become a platform for controversy regarding the topic of censorship at our school's arts festival, but I don't know if the time is right to discuss it. I'm going to remain gracefully silent for now. Anyway! Here's my statement for Bears on Swings:

Bears on Swings is a celebration of the springtime depicted through nature's most notorious hibernators: bears. The work is comprised of approximately thirty hand-knit stuffed bears suspended by swings from the trees which line the academic mall.

The use of knitting as a medium is part of an ongoing effort in the exploration of the domestic arts. As for the concept, bears on swings are simply adorable.

I simplified Vanessa Carter's Bubby pattern and used size 8 needles and a lot of the acrylic yarn I had from when I was learning how to knit. Into each swing, which I built in our woodshop, I nailed a large nail in order for the bears to have something to sit on and hold them upright. Another successful adorable work!

Also The Hand Off received an honorable mention at the URECA show, where undergraduate students are nominated by professors to submit work. I get $25 and a free lunch in the Dean's Suite.

If you want to see more Bears on Swings installation photos, they're available.

Hello blog. I feel better now. Here's a sculpture I did in the fall. It looks like the Star of David head on, but as you rotate around the sculpture the form gets abstracted. Conversely, it's an abstract sculpture that just so happens to look like the star of David from only two points of view.

The thing is five feet by five feet by nine inches and cost me $150 in steel.

YOU MUST VIEW THE VIDEO IF YOU WANT TO "GET IT" (20 MB)

Hey. Promise me you'll come back to this blog a bunch in the next week. Everything happens at once and I have a bunch of fine art related stuff coming up in this week alone!. One is even almost knitting related and the other is certainly Al Pacino related.

3/4ths view.

Full frontal David.

Hi blog. How are you? I am AWFUL. Here's a piece I drew in 2005, but updated it. It's a Flash movie, about two and a half minutes long. Click on the image above or click here to view it.

First I took a picture of a canvas.
Then I overlayed the drawing on the canvas in Photoshop.
Then I painted the picture in with my opacity set such that the paint looked like it was being absorbed by the canvas.
Then I embroidered a few stitches and photographed those.
Then I made them all designy in Photoshop as to create a landscape.
I placed the landscape behind the people.
Then I exported two layers from Photoshop: (1) the background, and (2) the people.
I made a Flash movie with the two components moving at different rates.

Ta da!

Also my Women and Children piece got an honorable mention at the LICA Show.