Opening an Etsy shop has been on my to do list for too long, so today I am making it real.  The shop will host a variety of my more fun, functional, and craft based projects, starting with deer head pins and freedom ties at affordable prices.  In the near future, I hope to bring my good friend Aimee Belanger along for the ride by adding some of her wonderful prints.  Here’s the link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/RAWRdesign

My sister just sent me this photo montage she made over the the past couple days while she was heeling with the rover. Pretty sweet.

Shaping up. I think it will need a bit more reinforcement than I thought.

Here’s some rover photos, plans, and layouts I’ve been working on since the ASU fire marshall stopped responding to my emails.  Still trying to figure out if the sound system should be AC or DC in nature.  Th body itself will be a bit taller and a foot shorter than the cardboard model seen below.

In addition to working on my thesis, I also took a Metals elective this semester and was finally able to make a ring I first sketched in Australia, 2006. I have a lot more respect for jewelers now. At first I thought the size was the only difference between small metals and sculpture, but the materials are much harder to work with, too, particularly soldering. And it is more like woodworking in that you can’t really add and subject material, it’s mostly all subtractive. Here are some photos of my work from the class:

And I am one of them.  Here’s the link.

In an attempt to understand the relationship between my interactive telecommunications work and my recent geographic identity I made the following map that shows places I have visited (1 – 60 days) in orange and places I have lived (2+ months) in red from 2006 – 2010: