Jay Lynn

– because I was looking for a creative project. It may not be truly minimalist, but it expresses where I was heading.

My kid’s Halloween costume this year. Find a picture, project and measure, cut, glue, and paint. It was cool, but not nearly sturdy enough. It failed to survive the rigors of trick-or-treating. [Show as slideshow]

My son begged me to set up my camera for him. I did that much, but left him entirely to his own devices. After a few hours, this was the result.

There was some confusion about getting this done and it may not be the “official” poster for the latest production, but I was pleased with the result: I feel like I’ve still “got it.”

So, I have a thing about personalized stationery – notecards, specifically. I’ve made several of my own monograms and imprinted them on notecards. Over the years, I think I’ve had 3 different custom monograms ranging from abstract to fancy. None of them have really stuck. Lately, I’ve been in more of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get phase of life. It seems like just have stationery that says “Jay” is sufficient. I’ve had an idea about do-it-yourself embossing, and here are the results. The process and results aren’t perfect, but I think the method has promise. Here is my personal embosser, Mark I: From: To the embosser – bent and glued paper clips on a walnut (very hard wood) base with the reverse carved by hand: Pressed into cardstock to get the final result: Voila! Custom notecards. If you get a note from me in the near future, it will probably be on this stationery. Not perfect, but I’d say pretty good. And cheap. Cheap is good.  

Another foray into raising well-rounded geeky kids.  A few cheap toothbrushes, some vibrating pager motors, wires,  rubber bands, and batteries, and this is the result: I must admit, however, that they look like giant scuttling cockroaches in motion:  

I showed the kids the basics of stop motion filming recently.  They were completely responsible for the script and principle photography.  I assisted as sound engineer and editor.  Here are the results: