Last holiday season I decided to purchase livestock on behalf of my relatives from Heifer International. To best explain my actions I developed several small booklets detailing Heifer's mission and how my relatives were now a very vital part of it.

As some of these relatives were young children, the pages were overrun with illustrative depictions of goats, llamas, bees and sheep. The stories were told from the animals perspective, being parachuted to an impoverished family in an unknown, underdeveloped land.

While at the Maryland Institute College of Art, I befriended several talented animators whom I am still close with today. Two of them, CJ Reilly and Megan Rogers, called upon me to put a soundtrack to their videos which are viewable by clicking on the squares to the left.

Upon hearing my work with CJ Reilly, a manager at Lego and current Lego Robotics instructor asked for help with sound design for an upcoming Lego video. The results of that relationship can also be seen on the left.

Shortly after finalizing the Music For Democracy logo, I began work on a jingle which would play before video interviews with politicians and musicians. A link to this short jingle can be found on the left.

As a musician and tangible design evangelist, I've sketched dozens of ideas for alternative musical instruments. Developing systems that allow the user to get away from the computer screen has long been my passion and it's musical instrument experimentation that I find most satisfying.

Tone Throw is based on the idea of holding a note, chord, or tone in your hand. Only upon throwing this note against a hard surface will you hear its sound. Initial sketches saw crates upon crates that were filled with different balls - each crate a different chord, A through G.

Hooked on the idea, I sought to fine tune the details and, therefore, improve the design. Instead of crates of disposable balls, I decided to allow the user any sort of projectile at their disposal and to utilize mountable, digitized boards to receive the impact from these projectiles. The boards wirelessly talk to a hand-held remote to communicate velocity and whether the board is currently a minor, major or flat version of that board.

I'm of the persuasion that electricity will one day be as easy to transmit as an email or an MP3. Granted, this assertion may prove only to reveal what little physics knowledge I have, but still I continue to hypothesize.

Social Energy is my concept for harnessing energy created through exercise to collect and, ultimately, share on the internet. Like a more productive Facebook or a worthwhile Twitter, Social Energy's site would allow users to create accounts, upload their energy, research people, places and organizations, and share their newly created energy with the world.

I created the animation on the left to try my hand at advertising for Social Energy. At it's core, the concept is simple: share energy with the world through exercising. The meter at the bottom of the video monitors the user's battery. When the meter reaches capacity the user is able to share their energy online.