Project Category: Cohort 1 April 2024
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a8c Creators Club Website
Sasha asked for volunteers to create the Creators Club website, and after giving other folks a chance, I volunteered to help. Most of my experience is with self-hosted WordPress, and I wanted to challenge myself to publish a site built with the full-site editor for the first time. Mission accomplished! Challenges Joys I’m happy with…
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Christmas Cards
I know what you’re thinking. It’s too soon. But I love drawing and creating, and my wife loves colouring in. I had this thought that we could collaborate and create some cards that are much more us.
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charming wall
Meet my creation — a wall-sized charm bracelet. I was inspired by those tacky plastic chains where 80s kids proudly displayed the things they love (in my case: music! space! Froot Loops!). Before this I’d only briefly flirted with clay, so I decided to embrace mediocrity and go big…6 feet to be exact. I also…
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Postcards
I signed up to the Creators’ Club knowing I wanted to work on a photography-related project, but not knowing what I wanted to do. What helped me the most was having to ask myself: What Does your creative life look like in 10 years?What does it look like in 3 years?What can you create now?…
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Sprachzeitschrift
This project was a wonderful motivator to do two things I love but rarely make time for: creating art and studying language. To inspire time for both, I used the creator project as a catalyst for regular German practice in preparation for an upcoming meetup. I use Pimsleur as my language study tool, which I…
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Linear Calendar
A Montessori inspired linear wall calendar for a single year. This is an ongoing project to help my (currently) 4 and 7 year olds better understand the passage of time and past & future events. It was something I had been planning to do for a while, but hesitated to start due to the large…
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Motorelektrik
Motorelektrik is an EP from Breakage Music, with three new songs and two remixes, all in a motorik style, using a limited palette of instruments and sounds.
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The Band
Like all teenagers, I just wanted to understand myself, make friends, and belong. And then I found a band.
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Light Saber Hilt
Someone at my maker space suggested a couple of months ago that the wood-turners engage in a lightsaber hilt challenge in which they would turn spindles that looked like hilt designs. That was expanded to include any of the other areas in the space. I work chiefly in blacksmithing and a bit in metalworking and…
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10 years at Automattic: a book
A photo book documenting ten years of Automattic meetups and travel. Process Details Book cloth: Dubletta in Aqua/BlackEndpapers: Strathmore art paperPaper: 28lb Hammermill premium legalCover decoration: Cricut Heat Transfer VinylFont used: Metallophile Sp8 Size: Legal folio (8.5×7 inches) Download PDF of book
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The North Land
I have written an acapella arrangement for three voices (SAT, or really AAT/B), a nostalgic song about Scotland based around the melody from the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony. I have persuaded my 18 year old son (tenor/baritone) and 14 year old daughter (alto) to sing it with me. Below is the finished article…
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Portraits of my Family
In Watercolor As I’ve worked on improving my portraiture skills, I’ve focused on painting the people I know and love. A teacher of mine suggested that painting people we don’t know may be easier, because we don’t have the heart connection to them that makes “mistakes” more risky. I tried that for a while and…
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Jupiter Road Sunrise
This painting was inspired by a sunrise in Weaverville, North Carolina, and is separated onto two square canvases. The original sketch was created in the winter, and by the time the painting was finished, it was spring. There are elements of both seasons in this painting, and the pink blossoms were exactly what it needed…
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Wet Whistle
A few favorite drinks. In a recent work meeting, our ice breaker was to each share a boring fact about ourselves. I shared that I like water. We all thought that was hysterical for some reason. I wanted to incorporate that fun moment into my project, so my water bottle is the foundation of Wet…
