Behold! The Lotus Table! Materials: Russian Birch Furniture-grade plywood, copper, cast bronze (hinges), brass, steel, sweat. This functional flower was designed around the idea of building a round table with expandable surface-area. The concept literally grew into mechanical engineering practicum for Mr. Brad Rosson and myself. We began with a simple-enough concept of how we [...]
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Brass, Nickel, Copper, Sterling Silver, Steel Springs.This kinetic ring, when pressed downward on a surface by the wearer, activates a triple spring-loaded mechanism that raises the face of the ring out of its bezel, and flips it to instantly reveal a scarab, representative of Cleopatra’s newfound power in Egypt, and influence over the mighty [...]
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Cast Iron, Steel, Brass, Magnets, Glass, Marble, Complexity. This polished persona is an ode to Douglas Hofstadter’s concept of a “Strange Loop.” The photos here simulate the experience of walking up and putting your face up to another face to use your eye to look through its eye into a space where another smaller [...]
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Here is my first working prototype of a Zen garden that automatically rakes concentric rings in fine sand at roughly the speed of a clock’s minute-hand. The magnets underneath the pan can be set up in any pattern, and once the steel balls are placed inside, the magnets will start to pull the balls [...]
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This kinetic ring began with the concept of transferring movement from the body into a piece of worn jewelry. The first prototype (I) that you see here was built with altered brass gears from a grandfather clock movement, and the rest was fabricated by hand with copper, sterling silver, brass, and a bezel-set Tigerseye. [...]
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