An interview in Kansas City

The brilliant and diligent Miesha Miller of "What's Up, Kansas City?" interviewed me for the "On Top of Your Game" series. Unfortunately, the camera later goes out of focus, but you can still hear what we say.

How to Make Multiple Pom Poms!

WATCH THIS IN HIGHER RESOLUTION! Select 1080p under the cog icon!

AS220 Labs Spring classes

Do watch.

I made a swing!

Glass Ikura Sushi Bead Tutorial

I demonstrate how I lampwork this type of simple form.

Solving Rubik's Magic Folding Puzzle

Today

http://connect.risd.edu/video/139

Cochineal/ Cochinilla

Cochinilla is an insect that grows on paddle cacti. The females produce carminic acid, from which carmine is derived. This bright red dye is used to color food, makeup, and as demonstrated above, textiles! "Bug juice," indeed.

This was recorded in Chincero, Peru en la Valle Sagrada cerca de Machu Picchu.

It's not easy to describe something as immense and diverse as the Maker Faire, but this video does a great job of beginning to explain it.

Childhood Bedroom Video Show and Tell

While visiting my family I share a few of the many strange objects within reach in my childhood bedroom.

Videos

I don't usually post things that I didn't make myself, but here is a little selection of videos that I like a lot. I'm in transit right now and have to organize my own content more before posting it.

Beauteous beauty!

Yma Sumac had a five- octave vocal range!

They're not hurting anybody! (Except for that little murder.)

Dancing at home, alone. Everyone should more.

A Possible Application of Lampworked Glass Eyes in Puppetry

This is pretty funny as it is, and there's plenty more potential here.

A Tour of Handmade Dolls and Puppets with Lampworked Glass Eyes

Before I demonstrate three ways to lampwork simple glass eyes, I'll show you some projects in which I've used them.

Vlog Post 3

What a wonderful day today was! I got to spend the whole day with my folks. I also gave a talk at the IMAGO Gallery in Warren, Rhode Island, along with seven other artists who won grants from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. I also met some spectacular paternal cousins, who further support my theory that everyone in Rhode Island is related somehow.

A song and a joke

Vlog

I figured out something new(ish (to me.))

Really short

Björk video

I guess I haven't put this up here yet. Bjork had a contest to make a music video for "Innocence," but, for whatever reason, a month was subtracted from the end date of the competition. I taped all of these things that I made (having never done anything like this before) and Arley Rose Torsone edited everything (we spent about 13 hours editing an hour into a minute.) Because we had a month less to make the video we weren't able to address the entire song. We didn't win, and I still don't know how to adjust the light settings on Mikey's video camera.

My friend, Brian, recorded with Bjork for some tracks on Volta, and he gave her a glass necklace that I made. She immediately put it on, and she was already wearing a necklace of human teeth that Matthew Barney made for her. Unfortunately, no photos were taken to document this.
I know it sounds unbelievable, but this actually happened. Ask Brian Chippendale.