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In 2017-2018 we renovated the upper floor of our house, but the living room was left pretty bare with the goal to build out space for a rotating art gallery. That need expanded into demand for additional storage, integration into custom AV cabinets and a desire for ambient lighting. I fabricated the resulting built-in cabinetry … Continued
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Many homes in dense cities like San Francisco share walls with neighboring structures. This results in a lack of opportunity for daylight or views. To solve this in our house I built an augmented window that displays a 4k livestream of the same view that would otherwise be visible if a real window were in … Continued
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When the COVID pandemic started and everyone was forced to shelter in place, especially in San Francisco, I started working on a project that would still allow for access to artwork at home. I wrote an application for the TV screen that would access some of the collection APIs that museums have been making available … Continued
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I investigated the features of the Snap Lens studio to benchmark against some of the custom computer vision algorithms we wrote at frog for the SFMOMA project. It is impressive how performant and feature rich their computer vision systems have progressed using only RGB webcams for both facial tracking and full body tracking supported by … Continued
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Walking through the house one day in late in 2020, I came across an awesome drawing of a giraffe across three 8×11 sheets of paper by my daughter. I thought it would be a fun character to 3D model, animate and render in augmented reality using the original drawing as a marker for the AR … Continued
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In the Summer and Fall of 2020 we converted a bedroom into a shared office and bedroom space to better accommodate the new work from home normal. Features include a secret passage to former closet hidden behind a bookshelf, concealed piano keyboard slide mechanism and a custom space portal piece inspired by Star Wars now … Continued
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As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of frog design, the firm asked frogs—both current and past—from around the globe to send their interpretations of the beloved friedolin the frog logo. My submission was in the medium of pancake art, which I have been aspiring to master.
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The Interpretive Gallery we designed and developed for SFMOMA launched as part of the 2018 Magritte: The Fifth Season exhibition in 2018. After the launch we learned that the marketing department was counting visitor images shared on Instagram and other social networking sites by hand in order to understand how visitors were experiencing and sharing … Continued
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The Eyeo Festival was a design, technology, data visualization, activist, interactive and creative code conference hosted in Minneapolis every year and brought some of the most talented artists, creators and technologists to the Twin Cities each summer. I have been in 2012, 2017 and 2018 and went to the previous incarnation called flashbelt in the … Continued
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In 2016 a frog colleague hosted a coffee time in celebration of Beyonce. In order to support her presentation, myself and another frog technologist created a Beyonce Hologram in honor of the event.