This is another ‘thing’ I made in welding class at The Crucible. A total of four pieces of metal taken from the scrap bin. The antlers were the inspiration for the rest of the moose, as I found that piece as-is.

He lives in our garden now hidden amongst the plants, but I’m pretty sure he keeps the mountain lions at bay.

Photographed for my “Stuff I Built” page.

The front of a mid-1950’s Jaguar Roadster, taken at The Candy Store.

This is an image through the viewfinder of a Kodak Junior Six-20 camera (circa the mid 1930’s). You look down through a second lens to aim the camera, so the view here also shows the main lens and shutter. The camera belonged to my father-in-law, who unfortunately I never had the honor to meet.

It is a beautifully simple instrument – more images of it to come. I am ordering a few rolls of black and white 620 film – the camera is in fine working condition, and it will be great fun shooting with it.

I was working on composition today – experimenting with symmetry and balance in the garage doors and then throwing it off with the dog and broom. I’m not sure it really worked, though.

The original car is an old Toyota we have, but through an HDR (high dynamic range) process I brought out ALL the flaws in it.

I love this key. I wish it worked.

I liked the graphic aspect of this image. Taken by the community pool at my Mom’s house.

I was photographing a candle, and found this interesting angle. Works well with Halloween coming up.

37°30’8.42″N 122°12’53.45″W
At the Port of Redwood City public boat launch. This Laser seems to have taken on a little water in the rain.

I just finished this yesterday. Based on an original design that I built in college, this is an LED lightshow that plugs into any audio source. (I have it on top of our home entertainment system, so it shows whatever we’re listening to or watching.)

The display is divided vertically into left and right channels. It displays the top half of the waveform of each channel with their zero levels in the center. The two knobs control the amplitude and the sweep speed.

When set to the right speed, a strong bass note will show up as a floating red bubble. A note an octave up will be two bubbles. Notes inbetween will be a series of bubbles floating up or down the display. Of course, all the other frequencies are in there, too, so you get a much more complicated display, but the bass tends to be the most prominent. Dynamics from drums, etc. cause the width to pulse. It all ends up being quite hypnotic.

The box… well, it’s just a black box I built with a plexiglass front. Suggestions for a sexier box are welcome!

Update 10/12: I posted a video of it in action here.