My Digital Sketchbook

My Favorite Toy

My favorite toy as a child was a dress form my grandmother (a former seamstress) kept in her basement. As children, my sister and I would play for hours with the form, scrap material and straight pins (kept by my grandmother in a Sucrets box). It was a simple game of client and designer. One of us would walk down the basement's beaten up wooden stairs pretending to be fabulously wealthy and request that the “designer” make her the outfit she described. The “client” would then leave for five minutes while the “designer” searched through a dusty cardboard box containing scraps of material that were rarely big enough to wrap completely around the form to complete the masterpiece. When the “client” returned, she either loved the design or requested tweaks here and there. A satisfied “client” meant that round of the game was over and my sister and I would switch roles, playing until my mother called us for dinner.

MS2::Interface Goals

By the end of this semester, would like to have gained an advanced understanding of how the Internet works and the trends of how it is being used today in order to create sites and blogs for self-promotion.

One of my major goals before graduating from Parsons MFA program is to build a wireless toy. Working hands-on with the Arduino board will help me to attain this goal.

Former and Current Jobs

• Stop-motion Animator
• Special Effects Make-up Artist
• Chocolatier
• Exhibit Designer
• After-Effects Animator
• Teacher

Education

• BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Stop-motion Animation
• MFA candidate at Parsons, The New School; Design and Technology

Interests

• Traveling
• Cooking & Baking
• Animating
• Acting
• Learning new languages
• Watching exceedingly horrible reality TV