#Art
168 posts2026-March Brain Dump
Bookmarks from March 2026
Read postGlitch in the CounterProductive Button – June 28 to July 4
CounterProductive downtime between June 28-July 4
Read postOngoing Project status updates 2025 June 10th
A status update of the Counter productive, Sky Pixles projects
Read post100 ideas project retrospective (2023)
Looking back at 100 days of daily project ideas in 2023, what got built, what got scrapped, and why I burned out doing it.
Read postIdea 100 - Lavender Farm
Plans for a Gulf Islands lavender farm with distillery, beehives, chickens, and a hillside field for retirement.
Read postIdea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Read postIdea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Read postIdea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Read postIdea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Read postIdea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Read postIdea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Read postIdea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Read postIdea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Read postIdea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Read postIdea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Read postIdea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Read postIdea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Read postIdea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Read postIdea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Read postIdea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Read postIdea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Read postIdea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Read postIdea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Read postIdea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Read postIdea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Read postIdea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Read postIdea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Read postIdea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Read postIdea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Read postIdea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Read postIdea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Read postIdea 058 - In a million parts
A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, built and shared on a steady schedule.
Read postIdea 055 - Truchet tessellating bathroom tiles
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tell a story
Read postIdea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Read postIdea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Read postIdea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Read postIdea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Read postIdea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Read postIdea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Read postIdea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Read postIdea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Read postIdea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Read postIdea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Read postIdea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Read postIdea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Read postIdea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero's journey, etc, made for kids
Read postIdea 014 - AI Pictionary
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Read postIdea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
An ear-shaped electronic badge that records speech to text 24 hours a day using OpenAI Whisper, feeding a personal AI assistant.
Read postIdea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Read postIdea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Read postIdea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Read postIdea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
Read postIdea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
People are disconnected more than ever and need a reason to reconnect with each other. Create a series of postcards and send packs of them to friends and family, for them to send onwards
Read postIdea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Read postIdea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each of the 130 mammals in BC, with LED eyes and an SAO connector for an art show display.
Read postIdea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
Set up a photo booth in a park when the cherry blossoms are blooming, offer to take free portrait photos to the public and use the experience to get better at portrait photography.
Read postYear in review 2022
2022 year end review.
Read postFlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Post mortem from showing the Flocking AI bird gallery at Maker Labs during Eastside Culture Crawl 2022: pitch, sales, and what to fix.
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Samsung The Frame TV art
A gallery of MidJourney-generated 4K UHD artwork sized exactly for Samsung The Frame TV to avoid the mat border, free to download.
Read postCurrent tools and equipment (2021)
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
Read postFebruary 2021 brain dump
February 2021 brain dump on getting into birding with a Sigma 150-600mm, plotter twitter projects, and a 52-card bird playing deck plan.
Read postJanuary 2020 brain dump
January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.
Read postPanels - Stained glass windows project
Walkthrough of every panel in the digital stained glass window series: beehive, mountains, stars, hexagon weave, heart, sun, and more.
Read postDigital stained glass workshop
A workshop at MakerLabs Vancouver where attendees design a 9x9 inch illuminated stained glass window with WS2811 LEDs and CNC-cut foam.
Read postJun 2019 brain dump
June 2019 bookmarks: a Casper nightlight teardown, the Etch-A-Snap Pi camera, SVG Nest, and stacked paper stained glass.
Read postFeb 2019 brain dump
February 2019 links on Arduino LED projects, an Etch A Sketch CNC, a zombie ESP8266 game, and James Clar's neon art.
Read postNov 2018 brain dump
November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.
Read postMay 2018 brain dump
May 2018 grab bag of links: pen plotters, ESPEasy firmware, the TWANG dungeon crawler, and a wooden lego planter.
Read postInspiration - Stained glass windows project
Inspiration for the stained glass windows project, from Lumina Lab's Stoicheia dodecahedron to mandala work on Instagram.
Read postJanuary 2018 brain dump
Notes on dropping Evernote for are.na, TeamViewer alternatives, blockchain art, the Ice Cold Beer game, and a pile of bookmarks.
Read postNotes from May 2017
May 2017 links: ESP32 sniffers, a giant laser-cut Bulbasaur, an 8-bit computer from scratch, Big Poop Data, and the BLACK 2.0 paint.
Read postNotes from April 2017
April 2017 links: Google AnyPixel, a drinkable tequila cloud, the Cubic Cyphercon puzzle badge, ESP8266 deauther, and Shodan.
Read postLaser cutting in Vancouver
A guide to laser cutting in Vancouver after 4000 hours on the machines: where to cut, who to follow, and which shop to avoid.
Read postNotes from March 2017
March 2017 links: a laser kaleidoscope, Lixie nixie alternatives, Vancouver crime maps, Eruv wires above Manhattan, and PBF comics.
Read postNotes from February 2017
February 2017 links: laser-cut art from 1000 Errors, paper beetle kits, Mongoose OS, the USB Killer V3, and the CIA cartography map drops.
Read postNotes from January 2017
January 2017 links: HexCells, the Universal Play Machine, makerjs for laser drawings, Mosquitto MQTT, and Node-RED home automation.
Read postNovember 2016 interesting link dump
November 2016 link dump: open source car control, ESP8266 MQTT LED controllers, the Maslow CNC, Boldport, and the poop emoji oral history.
Read postDay 97 - Giant fox mask
A 1.5-metre coroplast version of the Wintercroft fox mask, built during a VHS giant fox head build night.
Read postDay 94 - Radiant acrylic fox mask
A laser-cut acrylic Wintercroft fox mask for Burning Man, ruined by Gorilla Glue foaming under the panels.
Read postDay 92 - Yellow jacket
A laser-cut wood yellow jacket in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.
Read postDay 91 - Cockroach
A laser-cut wood American cockroach wearing a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.
Read postDay 90 - Blowfly
A laser-cut wood blowfly in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.
Read postDay 89 - Jumping spider
A laser-cut wood jumping spider with a top hat, another entry in the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.
Read postDay 88 - Preying mantis
A laser-cut wood praying mantis wearing a top hat, part of the Fancy Bugs series for Burning Man.
Read postDay 87 - Burning man plaque
A large map of Black Rock City for camp visitors to mark cool spots with push pins and flags.
Read postDay 86 - Fox head mask
A low-poly Wintercroft fox head mask cut from coroplast, ready for mirrored acrylic panels.
Read postDay 85 - Mustaches
Laser-cut mustache pendants strung on ribbons, hung from the dome roof as Burning Man gifts.
Read postDay 84 - MeeBox
A nesting laser-cut gift box for Burning Man, sitting in the dome for people to trade trinkets in and out of.
Read postDay 82 - Visualization of DNA
A Processing-generated visualization of my 23andMe DNA data, to be laser engraved on the MeeBox for Burning Man.
Read postDay 81 - Voronoi tower
A 20 by 10 inch laser-cut prototype of a voronoi pylon lantern, aiming for a 7-foot final version.
Read postDay 77 - Little red riding hood paper craft
A Little Red Riding Hood layered paper scene with trees worth doing more of, plus a misplaced wolf.
Read postDay 76 - Princess Mononoke paper craft
Layered paper kodama from Princess Mononoke, with 5mm layer spacing that works better than the old 10mm.
Read postDay 75 - Moose layered paper craft
A layered paper moose with antlers too thin to stand up, popular enough on Instagram to deserve a second try.
Read postDay 73 - AT-Walker layered paper craft
A three-layer paper craft AT-AT with notes on tightening the 10mm layer spacing down to 5mm.
Read postDay 70 - fairy door off cuts
Messing around with leftover wood off-cuts from the fairy door workshop to see what they want to be.
Read postDay 69 - Installing fairy door two
A photo set of bad spots where fairy doors do not work, the counterpoint to the good locations post.
Read postDay 68 - Installing fairy door
A photo set of good spots around Vancouver to install tiny magic fairy doors.
Read postDay 66 - Pointy fairy door
A pointy-arch fairy door design, too small to use but with a shape worth keeping for the next round.
Read postDay 51 - Circles panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a circles pattern for the LED light wall.
Read postDay 50 - Unfinished panel
An unfinished laser-cut wooden panel from the LED light wall build.
Read postDay 49 - Branches panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a tree-branches pattern, a favorite from the LED panel series.
Read postDay 48 - Maze panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a maze pattern for the LED light wall.
Read postDay 47 - Twelve sided star
A laser-cut wooden panel with a twelve-sided star pattern for the LED light wall.
Read postDay 46 - Voronoi pattern panel
A laser-cut wooden panel with a Voronoi cell pattern, part of the LED panel series.
Read postDay 23 - Spiral panel
A spiral Pocket Universe panel test cut in paper after running out of wood, designed by Adam Barlev.
Read postDay 22 - triangl line panel
A triangle-line Pocket Universe panel cut in wood on the VHS laser cutter, designed by Adam Barlev.
Read postDay 19 - failed maze panel
A maze-pattern Pocket Universe panel test where the paths only connect at one point, too fragile to keep.
Read postDay 18 - Failed array panel
A test-cut Pocket Universe panel that came out too flimsy to use, rejected.
Read postDay 17 - Tiny Star panel array
A dense tiny-star test panel for the Pocket Universe, likely too detailed for the ShotBot and due for a redesign.
Read postDay 16 - Star panel two
A second star-pattern test panel cut for the Pocket Universe dome project.
Read postDay 13 - Layered paper craft dragon
A layered paper shadow puppet picture frame cut on the VHS laser cutter as a test for more complex scenes.
Read postDay 14 - Test polyhedron
A paper trapezohedron test for a planned set of twelve laser-cut wooden lantern shapes lit with LEDs.
Read postDay 8 - Moster mustache
A mustached monster vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 7 - Moster dog
A monster dog vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 6 - Moster lizard
A monster lizard vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 5 - Moster frog
A monster frog vector traced from a picture book and laser-cut in acrylic at VHS.
Read postDay 2 - 20x hexagon
Twenty laser-cut hexagons taped together around a single light source, made on the VHS laser as a light study.
Read postLayered paper cut with spacers between each layer
Reworking an old layered red paper-cut design by adding coroplast spacers between each layer, after seeing Charles Clary's work.
Read postA blue star sign
A glowing backlit star sign cut from coroplast with 12 RGB LEDs behind it.
Read postMore laser cut Guilloches
More guilloche patterns generated with an Inkscape macro and cut on the VHS laser cutter, with source files on GitHub.
Read postChinese paper cutting done with a laser cutter
Converting Chinese paper-cut silhouettes into vectors and cutting them on the laser cutter, with a branches design as the favourite.
Read postLaser cut Frabjous
A laser-cut Frabjous sculpture by George W. Hart, scaled from 4mm to 6mm birch and given to my mother for Christmas.
Read postDrawbot results
Prints off the Marginally Clever drawbot, made as a birthday gift for my nephew.
Read postReddit Holiday Greeting Card Exchange
A holiday card drawn on a Marginally Clever drawbot for the Reddit Gifts greeting card exchange.
Read postLaser cut layered Crystal skull
A clear acrylic crystal skull built from stacked laser-cut slices, threaded together with fishing line.
Read postThe 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
Accepted into the 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action in Vancouver with a button design called Teeth, shown at Hot Art Wet City.
Read postSimple acrylic pendants
Quick laser-cut acrylic Hibiscus and ukulele pendants as gifts for the family stops on my World Maker Faire trip.
Read postI like the weird
Two Burning Man videos I keep coming back to, Hula Cam 2012 and Home from 2011.
Read postCrowdfund the Rygo
A crowdfunding push for the Rygo, a Bathsheba Grossman sculpture aiming to be the biggest 3D print in North America.
Read postVancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
Notes from Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011: sign posts, a spin-art box, the milk jug dragon, and the Mondo Spider.
Read postBurning Man 2011 - Rites of Passage
Recap of Burning Man 2011 with favourite installations Charon's rowing skeletons and El Pulpo Mechanico.
Read postGOLD, lighting project.
Note on Evan Roth's Gold project, which lights up holes drilled into acrylic by reflecting light through the sheet.
Read postDrawing with water and ink
Idea for a short story narrated over footage of ink swirling through water.
Read postSpin Art - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
Rebuilt the giant spin art box with a belt drive and splash guard three days before Maker Faire, then ran out of paper by noon day two.
Read postSign Posts - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
150 hand-painted directional signs mounted on four posts for Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011.
Read postStatus update May 12, 2011
May 2011 update covering a burned out spin art motor, a DC trip to HacDC, and progress on the POV globe.
Read postGiant spin art - Maker Faire 2011 Vancouver
A giant spin art box built in a weekend from a junkyard washing machine motor for Maker Faire Vancouver.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Research other peoples projects.
Research notes on other POV display projects that influenced the RGB LED globe build.
Read postTwo layer Stencils
Cutting and spraying two-colour stencils as a step up from the single-layer ones, with a five-to-ten colour piece next.
Read postStatus update Feb 15
Mid-February update: Ray Gun Revival launched, a Maker Faire spin-art rig in planning, and the outdoor sensor logging sunrises.
Read postColor survey
A color-naming survey borrowed from XKCD to find common ground on how people label the same swatches.
Read postMear One Light Graffiti - Emily Wells
Frame-by-frame light graffiti video with Mear One shot at 30 seconds per image, scored by Emily Wells.
Read postBAXBEAR Release party Nov10 2007
BAXBEAR vinyl toy release party at EL Kartel on Robson Street, November 10th 2007.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-23 - 2007-05-30
Weekly del.icio.us dump: a CSS border style wizard, stencil street art, eyetracking heatmaps, and quote sites.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-16 - 2007-05-22
Weekly del.icio.us dump: oscilloscope art, a homebrew lava lamp, an ice-bulb instructable, and a pile of dice game writeups.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-04 - 2007-05-15
Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-04 - 2007-05-15
Read postFan works of Mario
A small roundup of dark and weird Mario fan art and flash animations including Communist Mario and Burly Mario.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-24
Weekly del.icio.us link dump covering Paint.NET, freebase pancake photos, a DIY Digg button, and Vancouver oddities.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-17
Weekly del.icio.us bookmarks: a CSS optimiser, GVTV, Canada Post address rules, SIW, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-09
Weekly del.icio.us bookmarks covering art, DIY electronics, Mobius chess, photo forgery detection, and a CSS list gallery.
Read postCamilla dErrico - One of my favorite Vancouver artists
Notes on Vancouver artist Camilla d'Errico, her helmet-head paintings, and where to find her prints and gallery shows.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-02
Weekly del.icio.us dump on guitar stompboxes, an RGB mood lamp, ferrofluid Morpho Towers, Game of Life, and the Translink bus-stop hack.
Read postProject: The $5 Cracker Box IPod Amplifier
Built the MAKE magazine cracker box iPod amp around an LM386 to drive a small 8 ohm speaker for a friend's metal sculpture.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 03/28/2007
Weekly del.icio.us dump covering a Van de Graaff generator, an LED sequence learner, GPS loggers, password crackers, and more.
Read postExtracting the IPTC data from an image in PHP
How to pull Picasa captions and other IPTC metadata out of an image in PHP using iptcparse and iptcembed.
Read postKyle Cooper - Single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form
Kyle Cooper has directed over 150 film title sequences, including Se7en, The Mummy, and Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3.
Read postPhoto Gallery that does not require a MySql database
An IPTC mod for Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery so it reads Picasa titles, no database needed, just upload and go.
Read postMark Jenkins - Plastic babies
Mark Jenkins makes cheap plastic babies from plastic wrap and clear tape, with ideas for turning them into LED-lit sculptures.
Read postStop motion drum and piano
A YouTube video by lassegg who hits each drum and piano note separately, then edits the clips into a song.
Read postSnOil - A Physical Display Based on Ferrofluid
Martin Frey's SnOil, a playable Snake game built on a 144-magnet grid pushing ferrofluid around a tray.
Read postPortobello West Fashion and Art Market
Portobello West opens August 27 at Plaza of Nations with up to 100 local clothing designers, jewelers, and potters, free to the public.
Read postLarch Market
Larch Market on August 26 is a one-day community bazaar in Kitsilano with artists, musicians, books, records, antiques, and clothing.
Read postVancouver Zombie Walk
The Vancouver Zombie Walk on August 19 starts at the VAG, rides SkyTrain to Main Street, and ends at Mountainview Cemetery and QE Park.
Read postHeritage Hall Comic Con
Heritage Hall Comic Con on August 27, 2006 gathers small-press and alternative comic creators on Main Street in Vancouver.
Read postBard On The Beach - Midsummer night’s dream
Bard on the Beach stages A Midsummer Night's Dream at Vanier Park from June 1 to September 24, 2006.
Read postIlluminares Lantern Procession
The Illuminares Lantern Procession lights up Trout Lake Park on July 29, 2006 with paper lanterns, bands, and fire sculptures.
Read postHarrison Hot Springs Sand Sculpture Tournament of Champions
Past world champions carve sand at Harrison Hot Springs from May through October 9, 2006 for the Tournament of Champions.
Read post7th Vancouver Chinatown Festival
The 7th Vancouver Chinatown Festival runs August 5-6, 2006 with food tours, a youth talent contest, and folk art demos.
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