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Reading Time: < 1 minute Overtone Role: Designer, Creative DirectorContext: Market Research EventLocation: ChicagoAudience: Fortune 500 prospects Zecco Role: Designer, Creative DirectorContext: The Money ShowLocation: San FranciscoAudience: Investors, Consumers The post Trade Shows and Exhibits appeared first on sabin@speiser.com .
Reading Time: 4 minutes Role: Sponsor, Designer, Creative DirectorContext: Company Launch Event Location: Wall Street, New York CityAudience: General public, financial services workers, media Experiential production in public to launch free-commision stock broker. At Zecco, I oversaw the marketing efforts to bring this online stock trading company to market, building from zero to 140,000 customer…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Role: Artist, Designer, DeveloperContext: Burningman 2024Location: Black Rock CityAudience: 80,000 festivalgoers Freestanding interactive art installation The idea: With the ubiquity of ChatGPT, and its incessant cheerleading and positive optimism, we wanted to explore an LLM model with a different personality. Embracing Dadaism, the piece reflects on the absurdity and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Role: Designer, DeveloperContext: Interactive art installation Location: UnScruz 20225, Burningman 2025Audience: Festivalgoers Interactive art installation at UnScruz 2025 and Burningman 2025 The idea: The objective of the piece was to help participants connect their personal experiences to theuniversal patterns and archetypes that shape us all. Six participants at a time…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m moving to Oakland this week. I’m also working with a startup that’s building a marketplace for travelers to connect with “localites”, experts in the area they are visiting. To get a feel for the value of a locality, I put together an itinerary that I would take my friends on to get a feel ... Read more The post 6-hour Bicycle Tour of West Oakland appeared first on…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The scrolling ticker substrate is a ring suspended from the top of the hyperboloid tower. The ring will be made up of 3 6″ x 16 ft. sections of 1/8″ Masonite. Each section is made up of four pieces of 6″ x 8 ft. Masonite lapped together and secured by sets of 4 small bots ... Read more The post Scrolling Ticker Ring appeared first on sabin@speiser.com .
Reading Time: < 1 minute Midway up the structure, we need to have a platform to support the power systems. This platform can also stiffen the structure serving transfer tension and compression forces around the helix. I wanted it to be able to support several hundred lbs. of weight that a person and a generator might add up to. At ... Read more The post Platform appeared first on sabin@speiser.com…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our first design for the structure called for 2″ diameter bamboo poles arranged in a helix pattern to form a 14 ft. hyperboloid tower. Each pole was going to be made up of two 8ft. pieces of bamboo cane coupled by using a two-foot 1″ round dowel inserted parallel through the middle of the cane. ... Read more The post Structure – Bamboo poles out, lodge poles in appeared…
Reading Time: 7 minutes I tried out a new beta of an AI-powered wardrobe generator. It is all it's cracked up to be. The post AI-powered Wardrobe: Wardobe-ai.com appeared first on sabin@speiser.com .
Reading Time: 10 minutes I had put together a list of iconic couples, and my goal was to come up with prompts and processes to get good images where our likenesses were substituted into the scene. One significant departure from my previous trials is that I have started incorporating negative prompts into the renderings. The post Custom Stable Diffusion Model with Two Tokens appeared first on…