PROJECTS

I like to make things.

LASER CRAFTS

For my Gram Torino: handmade laser-etched coasters. Her gift to me: a million cannolis over the years.

Look! @joegarden's cubicle store won Bodega of the Year by the Bodegers Association! #Crafts #DIY

Today's craft: fake glass hamster ornaments. Oooh.

LASER HAMSTER RUN!!! Holy moly I love lasers. Must. Resist. Urge. To. Write. Name. On. Moon. #DIY

Hamster wheel necklace! Drawing a design for my @nycresistor laser cutting class today. LASERS!!!

Splenda, my DIY laser cut Sugar Glider, is aliiiiiive. Now come the LEDs! #DIY

Now with more LED! Fly, my pretty, FLY! Today's DIY project makes me so ridiculously happy.

PLAYING WITH SHRINK PAPER

Winds up Red Shrink Paper Doesn't Melt the Same As Clear

This Christmas I made Zoo-flake Necklaces and Ornaments for all my friends out of Shrinky Dink Paper, it took FOREVER

It took me 1-3 hours to cut out every one of these

Monkeys! (a necklace for Lizz, of course)

STALKING AND MURDERING OF A CHILDHOOD GIRAFFE (aka the CONNECT-THE-DOTS TATTOO)

The Stalking and Murdering of a Childhood Giraffe was an art project I started in 2004 involving 58 of my friends (or “giraffe hunters”) in a search for a giraffe toy I had as a child. The goal of the project was to give in to nostalgia…and then to eventually learn to get over it. After 1,712 photos of “reject giraffes” spotted in 2006 the real giraffe was found…and in 2007 the giraffe was destroyed and I got an extremely visible invisible tattoo to commemorate the project. MORE INFO on the project…

$Shaun and Giraffe (photo by \$

Watch OUT! (the giraffe hunts... in Mar. 05)

The Murder, Part 1: The Immersion (shadows of fellow Murderers)

Broken Neck, Frozen Heart (photo by Eric Skiff)

My Connect-the-Dots Tattoo was chosen for a Book O' Tattoo Weirdos

Screenshot of Connect-the-Dots Set by Chris Morran

PUMPKIN CARVING

Watching Hocus Pocus and baking pumpkin seeds with @mways @dalypies Phyllis Diller, the Boogeyman, and Jack.

Phyllis Diller, back from the dead in carved pumpkin form! I'm pretty proud how it came out. First time trying something like this.

Attempting to combine these two things. Long live the Dill! #pumpkincarving

BOOK TRAILERS

Or the story of how my hands got internet famous. From PW in 2008: “One of the hottest things on the Internet right now is a one minute 20 second video of someone flipping through a children’s book.” The book wound up hitting #12 overall on Amazon.com 8 MONTHS BEFORE the actual publication. Currently up to 3 and a half million views and counting.

ROOF! Site Specific Portraits

Site specific portraits taken from 2006-2008 displayed as part of the ROOF! group show on September 13, 2008. Prints were attached to a wall on top of a Greenpoint warehouse roof for a night exhibition with a pile of flashlights on strings as the only way to view them. The show included original performances by bands and dancers and viewers were encouraged to tear down and keep the pictures at the end of the show.