The Deconstruction 2013

  This coming weekend teams of Makers, Artists, Students, Programmers, Problem-Solvers, Designers, Performers, Filmmakers (and many others) from around the globe will gather, physically and digitally, to “deconstruct” the world around them. Their common goal: rethink existing objects, genres, and ideas…and create something new. I am running a team at the Dallas Makerspace, so if you are
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Lottery Statistics

  Since the world has gone nuts with this 550 million dollar powerball, I figure I will share my thoughts on the lottery.   The chances of winning are 1 in 175,223,510. Each ticket is an independent variable only way to increase your odds are to buy more tickets. If you spend $34645 on tickets you
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Artcon 2012 *part 2

As many of you saw from my facebook post last night my piece of art sold for $325, and I can now cross off “sell a piece of art” from my bucket list. I was required to keep my art under wraps until the event (not sure why, but I obliged). So here it is
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ArtCon 2012

I was selected to be an artist for the ArtCon 2012 Event! The event features artists from all over the Dallas area to create a piece which will be auctioned off for charity. The art is all created on a single day on the provided “board” (an 18″ x 18″ piece of primed wood). This
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Useless Machines

Most machines have a distinct purpose for which they are designed and they are productive. Sometimes it is fund just to build something for the sake of building something. I am sure that most of you have seen the simple Useless machine, a box which turns itself off. Like this one. This one takes useless
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