Interview in Zupi Magazine.

We participated in a hackathon for nyc.gov at General Assembly, and our group won an award for most innovative concept! (w/ Jon Wettersten, Albert Lee, Geoffrey Brown, Burton Rast, Kristy Tillman, Michael Yap & Colin Raney). Our award? Breakfast with Mayor Bloomberg.

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This is a design for the new year of 2011, which is the year of the rabbit. The idea behind this is to impart a spirit of reproductivity, whether through projects or whatever we give to the world.

While on vacation traveling around in Brazil in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, I made a series of drawings of houses that I fantasized would be nice to live in or at least visit. Surrounded as I was by favelas, I was inspired to delve into this fantasy world and imagine living spaces that are absurd and playful.

These conversations took place in the mid-Manhattan library over the course of three hours. I spoke with five strangers. Of the five, two came to me without any coaxing, because they had seen the red blanket on the seat from a distance and they were drawn to it out of curiosity. I explained the project to start the conversations, and the responses were either appreciation for this art form or skepticism. When they were seated on the red blanket, I felt closer to them for a short while, because they unconsciously agreed to conditions of “intimacy”.

Conversations lasted from 10 – 15 minutes.
Topics included life, death, microfinance and travelling.
The types of people I talked to were tourists, students, and enterpreneurs

In the absence of an existing chess set, Tak and I made one from slate on this July 4th. The heaviness was quite satisfying.

Birdmania, the successor to Meowmania, follows in the “mania” series. These are individual single-serving sites that attempt to encapsulate one idea within a page. Meowmania was inexplicable and its primary function was to serve the entertainment needs of cats. Birdmania is a bit like an aviary you can access in a web browser.