Sing Whale is an iPad storybook where small children can make friends with a whale -- by speaking (or singing!) in his language.

Children can sing in “whale” by following visual guides and singing accordingly -- kind of like tonal connect-the-dots or language-learning karaoke.



The songs that you learn are simple, things you might ask someone that you just met, like: “What’s your favorite color?” (purple). The storybook revolves around one particular whale, and he’s got personality. He’s afraid of sharks, never far from his mom, likes tacos… actually shrimp tacos -- actually without the tacos -- okay, just shrimp. Sing-Whale gives families a chance to be silly.

While scientists in the real world don’t yet know how to decode whale songs, in this make-believe one we find that if we can speak their language, we can be friends.



Sing-Whale is my Master's Thesis, and a work-in-progress.

Much love and thanks to:
Nancy Hechinger, my adviser
William Jennings, whale expert, brilliant mind, other half.
Alia & Layla, Sansan & Keon for the whale sounds
The Open Frameworks community, Steve Varga, James George
Amanda Macari & Betsy Kerlin,
The Church St. School of Music and Art
Thesis Group 8
Red Burns & ITP
My parents Tony & Asela and my sisters, Minay and Ylai.

And for their indispensable advice, thank you:
Lisa Holton, Cristina Limlingan, Vickie & Benjie Dela Pena, Valentina Camacho & Nancy Mercado, Kathy Wilson, Marianne Petit, Marina Zurkow, Dan Shiffman, Ron Goldin, Patrick Hebron & Rune Madsen

Rºad’io’’ is an interactive installation that allows the user to explore the American cultural landscape by tuning into the various radio stations playing around the country. The user navigates a radio knob around the surface of a wooden map to listen to what is broadcasting in that area.






Rºad’io’’ is a collaboration with Merche Blasco.

GenoTypewriter is an antique from a fictional future. In this future, the scientists of the world have run amuck with mixing the genetics of one thing with another's.



It started with genetically modified yoghurt to enhance taste, but ended with a half-man, half-lettuce American president. The grim tale can be found at GenoTypewriter.com.


The object itself is an antique children's toy typewriter. The dial and the lever were attached to an Arduino and used as the interface for the GenoTypewriter. Processing was used for the software.


The GenoTypewriter issues you a voucher so that you may collect your modified pup at your local biotube repository.

GenoTypewriter was a collaboration with Will Jennings.

Lifecycle is a bike kit designed for Northern Uganda. It quickly connects two normal bikes and turns it into an emergency vehicle.



More details can be found at LifeCycleBike.org.

Primary contributions: Idea, initial prototyping.



A project created in collaboration with Alvin Chang, Craig Protzel, Jamie Lin, Emily Webster.

Website by Alvin Chang, vides edited by Craig Protzel.

Cavendish Trebuchet is a tiny catapult that, when pulled back and released, announces “Banana!” and triggers a video projection of said fruit flying into the wall.

CT is a project done in collaboration with Will Jennings.