Category: Artwork

  • Emoji phonetic alphabet

    Do you ever find yourself spelling out names, emails, or part numbers over the phone? For example, whenever I relay my email address over the phone, I have to carefully distinguish M versus N in “MONOMER BIO”. If so, I have a tool for you. The NATO phonetic alphabet was designed for spelling out letters in noisy…

  • Vibe doodling

    As a kid, I spent a lot of time doodling in my notebooks. I imagine myself scribbling away in class when I should have been taking notes. This may seem frivolous, but I recently made the connection between these squiggles and the Dutch notion of niksen, which translates to doing nothing. It’s different from meditation,…

  • Reflecting on how much easier it is to take a panorama compared to 10 years ago

    This photo was taken circa 2007 in Philadelphia, PA. Back then digital photography was still becoming popular and panoramas weren’t as easy as a rotating your phone. This is a combination of HDR (blending 3 photos with 3 different exposures taken from the same position) and panaroma (stitching together photos from 10 different positions) for…

  • Robot sketches

    Ink and copic marker.

  • Landscape sketches

    Ink and copic marker.

  • Random Walkers

    Try the interactive version yourself.

  • Waves

    Experimenting with the Perlin noise() function in Processing. Play here.

  • Circles

    I wrote a little interactive web app that allows me to generate this piece of patterns and colors. You can try it out for yourself here.

  • Moped

    Michael Park introduced me to the zen of moped maintenance and helped me fix up this two stroke engine from the 1970s. Elegance = Power / Complexity