Thanks to David Mold for this video.
http://mandoliniana.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/davidmold

It sounds like a shoe box with some rubber bands on it. But hey, the kids can’t complain… I designed it to be quick and easy to make, and it only took me a year and a half to make it. So there.

And, it looks hilarious.

And here’s #17, for comparison…

Pictured are #19, #17, #18, #21, #20. Can’t wait to string them up!

I can finally move on to gearing up for my octave mandolin and mandola projects!

Bruce Harvie’s handwriting still on this one:

Just an idea…

Here are some mockups and fixtures for my ongoing Nautilus mandolin project. It is an affordable instrument intended to bring exceptional tone and playability to a lower price point, through the use of modern automation and traditional instrument voicing techniques.

These illustrations were done mostly to get back up to speed on the latest version of SolidWorks after using Alibre Design Pro (another parametric CAD package) for the last year.

I had been studying air-cooled engines and started drawing a lot of radial engines, which lead to the prominent engine features of this aircraft.

The rest of the components were basically contrived to help learn the keys to SolidWorks. With a little maxwell time, it came out as a pretty cool little racer, looks like it might do well in pylon racing at Reno back in the 60′s.

The windshield design is not likely to win any awards for usability. And though I wouldn’t want to fly it, I think it’s still a cool to look at!

A finished illustration. Though I think I like it better in orange.

For best impact, the photos needed to be lit well enough to be legible when pixelated (from the appropriate reading distance – 30ft or so).

The concept expresses the interaction between humans and computers, which is integral to the mission of the client organization.

Most Web audio appliances are targeted to the gadget crowd. They are overloaded with features such as RSS readers, picture viewers, and Google Calenders syncing.

But what if you just want to listen to music? This concept is an exploration of establishing the simplest, most analog way of interacting with the device, more closely replicating the experience of using a vintage stereo.

For those of us who only listen to a couple stations, the display component is removable, leaving an even simpler – and LED-free- package on your bookshelf or bedside table.

This is a study in environmental design and illustration. It began with the furniture in 2006 and became a more complete modernist-inspired living space. The linear arrangement and color scheme intrigued me, along with the concept of making a living space which is more in line with living patterns than the average off-the-shelf contemporary dwelling. However, I didn’t complete the images until computer processors began to allow more reasonable render times. The initial images took weeks to cook in 2006, and the most recent, finished in 2009, took mere hours.

View interactive panoramas here and here.

Interactive Panorama – click to change the view, use CTRL and SHIFT to change perspective angle.

Interactive Panorama – click to change the view, use CTRL and SHIFT to change perspective angle.

I photographed this line of heaters for commercial purposes – packaging and marketing materials. As usual, it was on super-short notice, and a complete range of clipped-out silhouette shots and specific detail shots were taken for packaging and marketing purposes.

A complete range of clipped-out silhouette shots and specific detail shots were taken for packaging and marketing usage.

Shots of heaters taken on location in Atlanta.

This was a conceptual rendering set for the SSDL lab out of Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Engineering department

The trickiest part was evoking a sense of Titan, which is Saturn’s largest moon. It is thought to have a very thick atmosphere and a methane ocean (!?).