CS->Art->CA->SciVis->ML. Scales. Locations. Safety. Societal<->Natural<->Technological.
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1. As a new year's resolution, I recently acquired and ate some black chicken. I also have a new year's resolution to eat a black and/or white truffle (mushroom), but this will take more money or ingenuity. Eataly, the huge upscale Italian market in the Flatiron, does have a big white truffle sale every December. I learned this in January.
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2. I had two black chickens. With the first chicken, I cooked the head, feet, and some of the leg into a soup, and pan-fried the rest.
I processed, cooked, and ate this black chicken. Photo and beheading assistance by by Crista Grauer.
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3. The second chicken was turned into a black chicken pie. This was DELICIOUS! And, as far as we know, there is no black chicken pie recipe out there, so one must be written. Add it to the to-do list.
How Me Be
Most people, myself included, don't know exactly what to call me or my profession. Depending on who you speak with, I am an animator, a programmer, a scientific visualizer, a student, a company owner, to name a few terms. The term 'maker' is gaining wide traction, and I'm happy to call myself that. I'd very much like to call myself a 'creative computerist,' but this term isn't used widely enough to be understood in the way I'd like.
In the short time that I've been bouncing back and forth between MIT and Brooklyn, I've come to better understand that I'm strongest as an artist and a manager, and to a lesser extent, a technologist and technician. That said, I'm happy to be surrounded by so many brilliant technologists at both MIT and in Brooklyn, because both software and hardware technologies are such incredible creative tools and mediums. I'm excited to be a part of these fields while I'm still young enough to grasp them. After that, I'll retire to Fire Island and focus on opening a karaoke bar of obscure songs: 'Obscuraoke.'
I was born slowly in Cockeysville, Maryland, USA, Earth. When the Macintosh debuted in 1984, I got hooked on making things with computers, and I've been a creative computerist ever since.
One of my earliest self-descriptions is on my old web site, along with an artist's statement. A more up-to-date and vague self-description is on my studio's site.
