About
I am a passionate urban planner and web developer with a focus on
technology and community organizing. I am currently working as a
full-stack developer for Palante Technology Cooperative,
where I use my skills to build websites and applications that help people connect and build community.
In the past I've also been a facilitator and a community organizer.
In my free time, I am writing code to visualize what cities and other human spaces would be like if
they were based on how seaweed grow.
In the past, I have worked as a web designer in the fashion and art industries, designed men's wear (mostly ties), and
done print and exhibition design. I am also a b-boy and have worked as an educator in Indigenous and CS/Art spaces
as well as teaching dance and Circus arts.
I am excited to use my skills and experience to make a positive impact on the world.
I believe that technology can be used to create more equitable and sustainable cities,
and I am committed to using my skills to help make that happen.
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Recent Work:
Wages: What are we worth?
"Wages: What are we worth?" explores what our relationship to our wages. Do they determine our value or worth?
Are they what we want to be known for?
Do we judge others based on the wages they make or don’t make?
From those that do housework to those that put in hours as chief executives (and those that spend equal time in both worlds),
how do we grasp the landscape of inequality created by wages?
"Wages: What are we worth?" is Generative artwork where written codes create abstract landscapes of wages.
These landscapes grow and unfold over time.
There are eight different starting points creating images that never reproduce in the exact same way.
There is much to talk about when we talk about wages;
I hope these abstract landscapes can facilitate a conversation about what this wage system might mean to all of us
as paid or unpaid waged workers.
- Here is the promo video from the Honolulu Museum of Art
- My recent artist talk with Gwen Arkin is here on Youtube
- here are some examples as well
Portfolio
Delaware River at Sunset
"Greetings from Trenton NJ @ the Delaware River." Custom holiday postcard for I am Trenton Community Foundation.
Photography, Typography, Print, Hand DrawnImagined Cities: Codium Fragile 01
This is a still of a generative art piece that is a simplified imagined cityscape based off the thallus of the Seaweed species Codium Fragile. The circles are formed at random sizes and at some-what random distances from the thin line. Together the circles form human dwellings clustered into what could be neighborhoods and the thin lines are the roads that give the city coherence within the movement of life. This is an early first draft of my new project: Seaweed and Imagined Cities
Generative Art, Urban Design, Planning, P5JS, JavaScriptSelf Portrait
My headshot, which I use everywhere on the IOT (Internet of Things). The original photo was taken from a career fair and turned into a 9 panel generative comic.
Photography, Generative Art, Sequential Art, Processing, PythonE Ho Mai landscape
I wrote a program that turns sound into landscapes. This is a still of a longer video of landscapes formed by the Hawaiian Chant E Ho Mai. All of this was from a sound installation that I made for Kilo Hoku Day 2019 at Doris Duke Theatre in Honolulu.
Sound Art, Generative Art, Installation, Java, ProcessingSeaweed and Imagined Cities: The Recursive City 02
This is the second city in the series Seaweed and Imagined Cities. Here the inspiration is recursion, which is used in computer science to produce fractorals and other shapes.
Generative Art, Urban Design, Planning, P5JS, JavaScriptConfronting Racial Capital
Poster for the Confronting Racial Capitalism Conference at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Design, Posters, Patterns, Hand DrawnAbolition and Abundance
Poster for the Event, Abolition and Abundance: Living Beyond Punishment
Print, Poster, Design, Hand DrawnCancel Rimpac Logo
Logo Design for the Cancel Rimpac Coalition
Design, Logo2018 Happy New Year Card
A thank you card to everyone that worked with us at Line Index during the year 2018.
Design, Typographyhigh waste logo
logo design for a fast fashion company, where nothing is recycled and trash is sold as clothes. The logo and the company are meant to be commentary on debt, surplus, garbage and recycling. Website forth coming.
Typography, logo design, brandingSnap Lens: Pizza Cactus Suit
A Dream come true: a second skin. Pizza Suit Cactus. Short dance exploration video of Augmented Reality. The Pizza Cactus Suit is a snap chat lens made with Snap Studio.
Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Snap ChatA random Polygon Generator
This was a small piece of code written to help students understand shapes and randomness in programming.
Generative Art, Javascript, P5JsMo'olelo
Mo'olelo is the Hawaiian work for story, or rather talk story. The letters are typeset in Minecraft to be later used for flyers and promotional material for a Computer Science after school class that mixed traditional Hawaiian knowledge and Minecraft. I am especially grateful for my awesome nā haumana (students) and all nā kumu (teachers) I worked with !
Typography, Education, Gaming, MinecraftAnother World Is Possible
Poster for the Trenton People's Bookfair -- a collaboration with a lot of great artists, Trentonians, Educators, organizers and activists. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with them all.
Poster DesignSunset to Denver
This was one of the first photos I took with a smart phone.
Photography