Naked Men’s Drawing Club

60 Second Docs did a piece on a drawing club for men based in Manhattan in which the men draw other nude men while also being nude. The club was started by artist Shungaboy who is interested in nudism and nudist activities. The drawing group is focused on promoting inclusion and body positivity. I’m a…

Masterlist.co

The other day a friend showed me an online project to turn the McMaster-Carr website (the most boring engineering supplies site) into a curated Pinterest/Etsy style site called Masterlist.co. McMaster-Carr is a vendor that sells everything from insulated tubing to stock metal pieces to tools to denim coveralls to giant vats of Gatorade; it is…

Delta Safety Card Video

I don’t usually fly Delta, so when I flew Delta flights both ways for this Thanksgiving break, I was surprised to find they had done away with their older safety videos starring actors (and the iconic finger-wagging stewardess) and replaced the video with an animated one. The animation used the artistic style implemented in the…

Shrek Retold

Over Thanksgiving break, my cousin showed me a cinematographic experience on YouTube in which over 200 independent collaborators remade different parts of the movie Shrek. The video clips range from live action acting to key-framed animation to sock puppets. The entire masterpiece can be viewed by clicking the following link:

Pimple Popping Videos

As an option for my group’s Project 4: Public Art work, we considered (and ruled out) projecting endless streams of “strangly satisfying” ASMR videos that include content such as playing with slime, soap cutting, hot knife cutting, slow hydraulic smashing, and industrial shredding. I am personally a junkie for these videos, but the one subsection…

Origami Soft Robotics

I work in a robotics lab here in the Mechanical Engineering department that focuses on using origami methods to create simpler robots. In the Sung Lab (one of the Grasp Labs), I am working on devising a method to scale up soft robotics manufacturing techniques to make larger robots; specifically, my goal is to create…

Dryer Lint Masterpieces

Metal smith Heidi Hooper of Strasburg, PA, makes 2-d works from dryer lint in varying colors. Started as a motivational project for herself after being diagnosed with cancer, Hooper starts with a sketch and then layers the dryer lint on top; each work takes roughly 3 months to create. She now receives regular submissions in…

Kristen Liu-Wong

Kristen Liu-Wong is an LA based painter who depicts NSFW scenes in bright neon and pastel colors and in meticulous detail. Liu-Wong, who studied Illustration at Pratt Institute, draws inspiration from her own life for her works; she uses her paintings to explore her own sexuality as well as to grapple with her mental health….

3D Printed Ceramics

Graphic designer Taekyeom Lee 3D prints ceramic works on 3D printers that he built himself. With no prior background in robotics, Lee taught himself to make 3D printers after graduating from art school and losing his access to the schools resources. He is particularly interested in creating complex ceramic works that involve type and signage…

Unsent Project

Artist Rora Blue’s Unsent Project features interactive works made by feedback from anonymous participants. People choose a color that is most representative of their first love and write a short letter to that person saying something that they wish they said or that they’ve never had the chance to say. Blue then combines the color…