extrasleepy

2024

Painted PLA, painted cherry

I don't know what you've been watching on TV, but you could be watching worms. Here's Worm TV. No monthly subscription required; just hang it on your wall.

Dimensions: 8.5”w x 5.5”h x 1”d (216 × 140 × 25.5mm)

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2024

Painted PLA, texture-painted cherry

Panel 001 results from a stint experimenting with color and texture on digital fabrication. The wall-hanging framework is texture-painted cherry, inset with various 3D-printed forms that fiddle between organic and mechanical. It's painting, it's sculpture––both and neither––a playful combination of colors and forms to adorn your space pod. It's not interactive, so don't toy with the controls unless there’s an actual red alert.

Dimensions: 15”w x 6.5”h x 2.5”d (381 x 165 x 63.5mm)

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2024

Painted PLA, cast concrete, CNC-cut cherry, speakers, lithium battery, custom electronics

Inspired by the product design section of SFMOMA's Art of Noise exhibition, I decided to get a little funky with my amplifier design skills. Decent Vibrations (yes, a nod to the Beach Boys ; )) is a small portable Bluetooth amplifier with a large on/off switch and a giant lumpy volume knob because why not? The base is cast concrete, and the body is texture-painted 3D-printed PLA. The piece is rechargeable, lasting many hours, longer than an unedited drone-metal double album––way longer.

Dimensions: 6”w x 7”h x 5”d (152 x 178 x 127mm)

July-August 2020

CNC-cut Wood, Acrylic Paint, 3D printed parts

A collaborative window installation, with Mel Prest, at the Great Highway Gallery in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco. This is accompanying a collaborative exhibition. From the press release: This exhibit unites Mel’s color and line painting installations with Andrew’s 3D machine-made and hand-finished sculptural work. The wall drawing was made by hand, finding irregularity and warmth in hand-drawn lines. The CNC cut wood shapes are abstractions everyday objects with fluorescent auras, floating over the wall. The lines and colors we used relate to the static and luminescence of screens, the vibrance of energy and community as we’ve experienced it, and how this has permeated each day since the quarantine began. Our initial experiments for the Great Highway’s window were inspired by the local air, architecture, colors, and the ocean. As this year has progressed, our influences have shifted to the excitement and movements to defund the police and dismantle white supremacy. As a way to support the call for change and justice, 25% of any sales will be donated to the Bay Area SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) chapter, part of a national organization whose “role as part of a multi-racial movement is to undermine white support for white supremacy and to help build a racially just society.”

2022

Social Media Dungeon is a game created during a five-week class, “Expressive Design with Videogames,” hosted by Lawra Clark and Blake Andrews through the School for Poetic Computation.

Play it: https://extrasleepy.itch.io/social-media-dungeon

The game is a literal translation of the emotional experience of being on social media too frequently and for too long. How long can you survive this brutal social media feed?

Made using Gamemaker Studio. Graphics are drawn with Procreate. Sounds from freesound.org and composed on beepbox.co.

2020

Listen and Learn is an example project for my 2020 Analog and Digital circuits class, which is entirely online this fall. Students learn about electronic components, design circuit boards, and prepare for remote manufacturing. We're using Eagle and Rhino for designing, OSH Park for the circuit boards, and Ponoko for the laser cutting.

2016

3D printed enclosure, Acrylic, Magnets, Circuit playground, Custom software

Using research into the science of creativity and sensory stimuli LOCU was created as a wearable device that detects light, sound and temperature – it lights will let you know when you're in any combination of the ideal conditions to ideate. 

This collaborative wearable device project was created at 72u in Los Angeles. 

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2016

CNC Plywood, Custom electronics, Custom software

Vizzy uses an interactive voting interface to provide a daily data visualization around a given topic, from the hard-hitting to the harder-to-talk about. Part community check-in, part live data stream, Vizzy is a safe space to register how you feel, see the opinions of others, and then talk about it all - IRL.

Vizzy is a Collaborative Project Created at 72u. 
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2015

This project applies data visualization and drawing into fabric patterns that capture the prevalence, contrasts, and frictions of rapid change as it affects parallel lives in the Bay Area. The fabric patterns are modeled after Dutch Wax Block Print designs which are popular in West Africa and may appropriately be referred to as "African Fabric". Data, derived from socio political concerns (such as changes in property values, transportation, or labor and income) and represented as shape and line, become the fabric backgrounds. The foreground patterns are composed of drawn symbology related to various technologies emerging from the social, economic and political environment in the San Francisco Bay Area. The finished fabrics are intended to serve a similar purpose as some of the designs in West Africa: highlighting objects as windows into change.

video of the design tools

See installation shots and fashion designed with the fabrics.

Suit design by Timothy Ho and modeled by Sam B. 

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2015

This 176-page full-color book is composed of illustrated nonfiction stories about traveling in Senegal, Mali and Ethiopia. The experiences are loosely organized into seven parts.  

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2014

Powder-coated CNC plasma cut steel, Vertical-Grain Fir, fasteners
Reconfigurable

2011

Wood, Aluminum, Electronics

Edition of Four