Author / t-wreks

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  • Hip Hop Versus

    Hip Hop Versus is a rap lyric database gathered from user input of more than 11,000 songs retooled into a rap battling platform. Its focus is on frequency of word usage in lyrics and aims to gather information pertaining to marketing strategies such as brand repetition, boasting, and comparison. The idea behind this database is…

    May 20, 2012
    code, interaction, public awareness, web work

  • we do hoodrat things

    nerd gang signs to use this click on the sketch and hold down the keys “b”, “l”, “zero”, and “d”.we do hoodrat things started as a single blogpost about the most balling way to flaunt you gold, Smoke it! and has transformed into a place where I like to document some fun hoodness. check it…

    May 19, 2012
    code, interaction, public awareness

  • Mo Money Mo Problems

    Q: How you livin Biggie smalls?A: In mansion and Benz’s
 Givin ends to my friends and it feels stupendous
 Tremendous cream, fuck a dollar and a dream
 Still tote gats strapped with infrared beams
 Choppin o’s, smokin lye an’ Optimo’s 
Money hoes and clothes all a nigga knows This project started with these woodcuts made…

    May 19, 2012
    public awareness, public intervention, social media

  • chemistry is fun

    This mural was done in the office of Dr. Steven Boone, Chemistry Professor at The University of Central Missouri.  The girl on the opposing wall is Steve’s daughter and she is blowing bubbles that transform into a molecule structure which is that of the hallucinogenic substance LSD.  What appears as Circles at the entry of…

    May 19, 2012
    installation, mural

  • DNC vs Denver Homeless

    During the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado, unhoused people were given tickets to the zoo, tickets to the movies, and some even one way bus tickets. The reasoning the city had for giving them movie tickets was because many were uprooted during DNC activities, so I put some back in the places they…

    May 19, 2012
    graffiti, public awareness, public intervention

  • Wall 2.0

      no more are these walls ROM “read only memory”. new york city is now beta testing a new form of communication “wall 2.0” walls with more RAM “random access memory” which can be read and written over. Talk about innovation (way to go nyc)

    May 19, 2012
    graffiti, interaction, public intervention, social sculpture

  • Creations of the creator

    This was an installation done in the UCM gallery for the 2008 senior show. I got the tree stump from a woodpile out on my my buddy Joe’s farm; although the limb had been laying detached for months, it sprouted leaves and new life before the opening.

    May 17, 2012
    fine art, illustration, installation

  • Dumpster Art

    When I was asked by friend and wonderful comedian Abbey Londer to create and installation for her warehouse comedy show, I found materials to create where any thrifty starving artist would. I scoured the streets of LA for inspiration as well as found materials in every way possible. I stretched canvas from old bed sheets…

    May 17, 2012
    fine art, illustration, installation

  • Gangster Mathematics

    “Gangster Mathematics is a culmination of two years of shared studio and living space between two young Denver artists. Formerly the only full time residents of the recently closed Block Building/ Andenken Gallery, McFadden and Sikorski have become a duo of awesome power matching that of Tango and Cash or even possibly Larry and Balki…

    May 17, 2012
    fine art, illustration

  • Image to Sound and Back

    Fellow maker FuzzyWobble and I teamed up to develop the most useless and clumsy wireless data-stream.  It basically takes an Image and converts each pixel to a sound, the sound is picked up by the second computers built in microphone and translated back into the same image.  We pretty much reinvented Wonka Vision.  

    June 7, 2011
    code, interaction

  • Hoodrats

    Hoodrats was a projects started with no direction and ended with a similar attitude. This project started out as a successful yet labor intensive stuffed animal venture, soon spun off into street art projects, a painting series, some small creature even ended up in the wild on several continents.

    June 5, 2011
    fine art, public intervention

  • EBT

    This Project was part of a campaign to help make folks aware of the benefits of food stamps in a toungue and cheek manor.  Fellow artist Adam Sikorski and I posted these fake Quest ads all over the city of Los Angeles in hopes of making people aware of the benefits they might be missing…

    June 5, 2010
    public awareness, public intervention

  • Misc Drawings and Paintings

    Over the years I have fancied myself as some sort of artist and here is just a small collection of some of the work that I still have documents of, and maybe have yet to classify

    August 6, 2009
    fine art, illustration

  • Toy Sauce

    This project started out as a fun filling in the buffmonster grey patchwork with some color and a stencil of the ms paint fill can. Eventually I started going around and filling a bunch of random taggers hollows with this bright paint, later came the toy sauce on the can which wasn’t received well until…

    June 7, 2009
    graffiti, mural, public intervention