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Daily Archives: September 4, 2013

Meat Racks – 2013 SF Chefs Event

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, DPEM Event Marketing-Tags: drawings, exhibit, design

I designed and built a set of three racks to hold various meats for the 2013 SF Chefs event - everything from deer to fish. I designed these with some nice artificial grass on the bases so that they wouldn't be unsightly pools of meat juice. Also, I learned that no stores in the Bay [...]

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I got nominated for an Emmy!

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: sesame street

This year, I was nominated for an Emmy along with the rest of our Art Department team at Sesame Street (Bob Phillips, Pete Ortiz, Keith Olsen & Rickey Boyd)  for an "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction / Set Decoration / Scenic Design" Emmy. I got to bring my dad along to the awards ceremony and [...]

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False-Bottomed Wheelchair – Inside Amy Schumer

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Propmaking, Inside Amy Schumer-Tags: Props, foam

I modified a wheelchair for a skit on Amy Schumer’s show. The actress needed to fit her legs into a box below the seat and have false skinny legs hinged onto her lap. The box below the seat is made from painted plywood and padding, and the legs are latex-skinned foam with “bones” made from [...]

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Playground concept sketches – Frolic Playspace

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Frolic Playspace-Tags: exhibit, playground, sketches

Frolic in Brooklyn, NY. asked me to sketch out some quick ideas for a redesign that they were considering - here are a few of my super-fast ideas.

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Perforated Pedestals – Kikkerland – ICFF

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Abunch LLC-Tags: fabrication, icff, exhibit

For this year's ICFF show, I made some new pedestals for Kikkerland so that they could be used with the long lighted counters that I had built the previous year. It was an interesting challenge to plan my cuts so that all of the perforated holes in the masonite surface would align on all of [...]

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Mechanical Cupcake Dispenser for Jet Blue

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Museum/Exhibit Design, Abunch LLC-Tags: mechanisms, exhibit, design

I was called in to make a mechanized cupcake dispenser over a weekend for Jet Blue, to be set up in their JFK terminal. This was a challenging project because I needed to design a mechanism that would feed out the small plastic balls without accidentally crushing them. Also, the cupcake was not centered in [...]

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