Born and raised in the rural midwest of 'merica. Shanghai transplanted. Making works at the fabulous Fablab O and my atelier: bēstia, an exploration of an erotics of wildness: wild nature, wild women, wild friends, wild dreams, wild house cats, wild literature. How do nature, humanity and intelligent machines exist in symbiosis?

The following images are recent works from my atelier: volta and stranger than paradise.

I love to travel. The first image was taken at Huang Shan, Yellow Mountains in China. The second from a small plane over the Maldives. That is Aileen, my current wife a few days after this photo, and that might be my father's forearm. Actually, come to think of it, that would be impossible.

This is a project I built at UCLA using vacuum-formed PETG and LEDs. The formwork was CNC milled from an high density foam from a design originating in Autodesk Maya based upon a minimal surface geometry. It was my first project using Maya and I was essentially clueless. My partner nor I could model the light dimples or wiring impressions, so we added them after the fact to the inside mold using wooden dowels and wires. That taught me a lesson in maximizing time efficiency via means which may at first blink seem alternate to the principle development path.

I am a huge fan of blending espresso coffee with MCT oil and grassfed butter. In short, it is all about brain fuel (ketones), slowing caffeine uptake (I have high sensitivity to caffeine) and loading up on all sorts of goodness from the butter. You know who else loves it? My cats! That one is mc13ane. You can make one too! Btw, nevermind that mycotoxins in the coffee bs or the proprietory ingredients...

Finally, I thought I would put up a few images from some of my work at Mad. In my time with the studio, I helped design dozenns, if not hundreds of projects which might seem unreasonable except when I tell you this: China. The first image is an early project designed in Autodesk Maya. The construction process involved 3D printing the digital model in a smaller scale and sending that to a workshop for the final build. Based on the 3D print, the workshop mocked up the piece using a very rough scrap wood and steel frame with loads of freeformed clay. From the clay, we were able to make adjustments for comfort and aesthetic and finally the mold was fiberglassed, painted and eventually shipped to this museum in Ansan, South Korea. FYI, multiple pieces were able to be formed over the clay mold.

This project was one of my last works at Mad. The exterior skin was formed in Autodesk Maya / Rhinoceros and then articulated in hundreds and hundreds of configurations of structure and pattern with one hell of a grasshopper script. As of, 2017 February, this project is under construction in Xiamen, China.

Lastly, I included one of the more acclaimed projects to come from the studio, the Harbin Opera House, a tremendous project. I did not have many months collaborating on this project (design went on for many years). Fortunately, my time spent was during one of the juicer periods of schematic design effort and I can still see many lines I tormented over in the build in these photos.