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East Austin Studio Tour time again! This year my housemate Aaron Bir was supremely prepared for EAST, and had a great first showing. Read all about it here.  I did the rounds again, and after attending for three years now, found that many artists either had the same work, or were doing new work indistinguishable from the old.  There were a few great exceptions, and some exciting new artists, but I didn’t catalogue my finds like I did last year.  I encourage anyone who hasn’t yet checked out the event for themselves to explore next year.  There’s even a possibility kicking around that you might get to explore our own house studio…

This year I created an installation art piece (last year was press photography). The installation was my biggest hole-stone tree yet! I found a perfect live oak with branches just the right height and secret hollows in the trunk. Three of the hole-stones had pockets big enough to fit LEDs, as did the trunk hollows. It turned out spectacular – mysterious, serene hanging stones and subtle fairy lights. Though it was too windy for me to get any good shots of the glowing stones at night.

And the rest of Art Outside was amazing as well. I must say my favorite bit was Maestro (Austin local!) and NicoLuminious on the open mic sometime around 3am Friday doing beatbox/live production acapella dubstep. I think they may have just created a genre.

And we finally got rain! After months and months of drought, the rain chose this one weekend. The sentiment was something along the lines of ‘we can’t really be pissed because rain is great, but why this weekend?’ My tent flooded.

Now I’m wondering what I’ll do next year? Perhaps impossible, but I can’t stop thinking about POV poi…

This year I’m doing an installation piece! Above is a sneak peak of what you might find. And probably press photography as well. Here’s a link to my AO bio.

The lush forests of New Jersey, the ruins of Bannerman’s Island castle, Maker Faire 2011, Museum of Natural History, NYC Resistor Hackerspace, The Cloisters, Central Park and Belvedere Castle, and miscellany.

Holidays with the family were great! And we got snow in Georgia – which never happens, so my sister and I took full advantage. After snowmen, snow angels, snowball fights, and trying to sled in an inch of snow, we decided to make a snow-pony! We got the body up on four legs, and it was soooo ugly our only course of action was to make a dinosaur instead.

Behold our SNOWASAURUS! It actually supported our weight, even our combined weight! Hooray snow!