Author Archives: Ken

Personal BART Sign

UPDATE: The BART Sign app is now available on the App Store! I’ve been working on this personal BART departure sign to run on an old iPad, because I’m often trying to figure out at the last minute which station … Continue reading

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Moon Landing Mug

Now available at my store: I’ve designed a mug based on my 360-degree “Moon Landing” illustration. (UPDATE: Not currently available for sale)

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Panoramic Drawing

These are some “stills” from my first experiment in creating a hand-drawn 360-degree panorama. Click through to see it in action. I’ve been kicking around the idea of doing something like this for a while, so was happy to discover … Continue reading

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8-Bit Bone Machine

My “chiptune” (technically “fakebit”) cover of Bone Machine by the The Pixies:

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I’ve been Parodied! A History of the British Sky

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this is way better. I recently became aware of this project by Oxford PhD student James Gilbert: I have compiled the following time-lapse video, inspired by Ken Murphy’s “A History of … Continue reading

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Bay History Pan-Lapse

For this commission for the Exploratorium’s Bay History exhibit, I created a panoramic time-lapse, showing the museum at its new home at Piers 15 and 17.

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Time-lapse: Last Night at the ‘Stick

KQED hired me to shoot a time-lapse over the course of the last scheduled game day at Candlestick Park. They put together this tribute: (Looks a lot better if you switch it to 720p or better.) The original post is … Continue reading

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Takesplit: Tool for Grouping Time-lapse “Takes”

I whipped up this little command-line tool for automatically grouping a bunch of image files into individual time-lapse sequences. This came up after a shoot where I shot a bunch of sequences on the same card. The process of manually … Continue reading

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Event: CODAME: SENSES (11/1-11/2)

Tonight and tomorrow (11/1-11/2) I’ll be showing some of my work, along with many other visual artsts, at the CODAME: SENSES Art + Tech festival:

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Time Shift Exhibit at the Exploratorium

Just in time for the reopening of the Exploratorium at its new location, I completed my Artist-in-Residence project, Time Shift. The exhibit is for the museum’s new Observatory gallery, which explores human and natural processes in the local environment. My … Continue reading

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