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What is this RotoGoboScope? The lantern that won the People’s Choice Award at the IllumiNite event in Edmonton! The RotoGoboScope is an innovative lantern that combines colorful LED lights with rotating mechanisms to produce a fantastic moving light-scape of patterned dots. It features custom electronics that are built into refurbished coffee cans, which are mounted [...]

Walking With Lanterns last week some friends and i went for a walk in the local ravine.  we brought some lanterns and a firepit on a wagon. all accounts concur that it was a  great evening in the park.  the weather was perfect too, chilly but not dangerous.  and the snow that had been threatening [...]

I’m involved in a festival project in my home town of Edmonton, AB, that takes on the colder half of our year.  It’s called Winter Light, cause we light up the long dark days of winter.  At our latitude, we can have as little as 4 hours of daylight in December.  Which is crazy.  Especially [...]

A big part of my art is site specific lighting installations. I created a new set of cad + waterjet woodcut Lanterns and Light Towers for Astral Harvest. Fun times. Extending my scope of action is always a fun thing to do, even the painful learning curves (of Adobe Illustrator for example) become satisfying and [...]

I’ve been visiting my wife’s family in Newfoundland this past week and a bit.  We go for walks, and i take pictures of rocks.  Microflora and closeups of stones is something of a fascination of mine, so that works out great here on da rock.

one of my artistic areas of exploration is semi-permanent shelters.  this comes from a situation i find myself in often: The Festival. Festival is a great place to gather people, re-affirm cultural values, breakdown habits, and practice life could be different. one of Life Could Be Different is what if there were a Big Problem. [...]

i have been a lantern co-ordinator for Edmonton’s Winter Light celebrations for the last two years.  it has given me the opportunity to do some fairly large scale work, and get outside and do fun stuff in the winter. here are some pictures of that process. for more information on the festival go to Winterlight

so, apparently i can put many pictures into a post, and then turn that into a gallery somehow. we’ll just see how that looks now… these are pictures of posters i made for a hall party called Intox.. maybe #3? way back in 2005