In Sleep

In sleep we lie all naked and alone
In sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness
and we are strange and beautiful asleep
For we are dying the darkness
And we know no death.

-Thomas Wolfe

Bow chica wow wow

Ok, so maybe this isn't that amazing to anyone else, but it is my first 3-D model and I'm pretty excited about it. I guess its kinda hard to see the detail in this tiny little video, too.

Dead Animals

Found this little guy outside of my friends house. He doesn't even look REAL. I couldn't resist that face. I need to start carrying around a camera more often for opportunities such as this one.

A few bowls

Sometimes I do things that have nothing to do with other things.


Like make bowls with chicken feet


And bowls with ceramic "feet"


And bowls with people feet.

And today is slaughterama. And I got into grad school!

Stay in bed float upstream

I'm starting something new for honors studio. It is going to be a series of images about sleep. To get myself in the mood i listened to some radiolab:
One Eye Open
It's a dangerous world out there, with predators always lurking. So what on earth would give every single animal in the kingdom the gumption to think it could lay itself down each day, let down its defenses, and go to sleep? Well, turns out that many species might not be as "out cold" as land mammals. We join Charles Amlaner and Steven Lima and their team at Indiana University who show us iguanas sleeping only half their brain at a time. That’s right. They sleep with one eye open. (Cue the Metallica). That way, the iguana can watch for predators, as the other half of its brain takes a rest.

While these creatures stay half awake to protect themselves, for humans, the dangers of sleep can come from within. We visit the Hennepin County Sleep Lab, where Dr. Carlos Schenck shows us some of the most terrifying sleep disorders around.