Alongside earning our boating licenses, Evgeny and I conceived an idea to find, purchase, acquire, fix up, customize, christen, brand, berth and then sail our own boat. Realizing a mutual dream of freedom, adventure, creativity and fun, this whim slowly became a reality.
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Wandering through a random ancient alleyway in Florence in 2015, I discovered a very large piece of street art. After five years, I finally uncovered the original artist(s) and collaborated with them to digitize this black and white paste-up and turn it into a massive chenille back-patch.
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For almost twenty years, I have been compiling thoughts, entries, doodles, photos, art, conversations, stories, dreams, rants, events, travels, anecdotes, advice, observations and commentary about everything in my life. After transcribing more than 1000 pages, I’m now shaping this work into a formative memoir, separated into four (or five?) books.
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I compiled a 90-second video about DANKOMADE as part of a 2018 WeWork Creator Awards application.
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First conceived sometime in 2006, this is the history of my professional brand and how its identity has evolved considerably over the last twelve years.
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Earlier this month, I was curious about what emoji's were proposed and approved for Unicode approval this year... and realized that there was no sloth included. Naturally, I opted to address this, and created my own set of Sloth Emoji.
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This simple structure has since become a revered addition to our living room, and gladly accepts, stores and dispenses almost all of our household hooch.
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A symbol of both oppression and freedom, The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, unifying East and West Berlin. Monuments and memorials draw hundreds of thousands each year to view the remains of this solemn reminder, whose message has become even more important as the Western political atmosphere echoes it's affects. Clever Halloween costume satire was, thus, inevitable.
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One day in May, I decided that I should resume painting. I visited some art shops in Berlin; it seemed to me that all of the models I found were either too flimsy or lacked panache. Thus, I took reference photos and began to plan and construct my own extra large, customized, rolling, adjustable, stable art easel.
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'Reclaimed,' 'found,' 'repurposed,' 'recycled,' 'salvaged' or just plain 'stolen,' some of my favourite furnishings have been made with shit I've either found or lifted from various places. It was this scavenger craftsman impulse that lead me to imagine and eventually construct a customized pipe and board open wardrobe.
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I've been entertaining the concept of a man-sized sloth costume for about five years... and, on the best night of 2015, I finally realized it.
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I've been entertaining the concept of a man-sized sloth costume for about five years, and this year, I'm finally going to realise it.
Earlier this year, I bought a new bicycle from a man in Kreuzberg over E-bay Kleinanzeigen here in Berlin. A beaten up old men's three-speed German Veteran model, the black frame remained solid, and the 28" diameter wheels and elevated seat suited my own dimensions. It was dirty, dented, and it rattled, but I knew we'd get along.
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Earlier last week, my social media feed was flooded with stories about how the climate in all of Canada was colder than that of the planet Mars. Of course, this phenomenon was ripe for a design/branding idea.
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This holiday season, one of my gifts was a very personal and original illustration.
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This year, after considering various concepts and ideas, Cor and I decided to go as Mythological Taxidermy: Cor as the beloved Jackalope (a jack rabbit with antlers), and me as a Lycanthrope (a shapeshifter; in this case, a sort of werewolf-troll-ogre-man-thing).
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In September, Cor came up with the idea of creating a sort of vision wall focused on the concept of stuff to make. During the development of the concept, the idea to create large 3D letters arose, and using math, cardboard, tape, glue, scissors and my favourite typefaces, I ran with it.
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