Japanese Flying Spaghetti MonsterOctober 2008 Brass My friend Patrick wanted me to make him a unique Flying Spaghetti Monster (praised be his noodly appendages) out of metal. In deference to the several years that Patrick spent living in Japan, I decided to go with a ramen themed design, complete with a pair of chopsticks sticking out of the bowl and slices of narutomaki (spiral fish cake) in lieu of the FSM's customary meatballs. The three kanji on the front of the bowl, (tobu men

I was asked to make a station necklace (also known as a Tin Cup necklace) for a young woman about to become bat mitzvah

that was set inside of a Star of David

Venus (Greek name: Aphrodite)

the main detail of which was an intricate boteh-like lotus

champagne sapphire

because it can look blue-green by daylight or fluorescent light and purple or red by candlelight or incandescent light

as she and I had gone to high school together in Honolulu

I haven't made pottery since elemetary school

which I modeled in CAD and had laser-sintered in stainless steel

The first recorded observation of Uranus was made in 1690

We'd moved back to Hawai‘i in the springtime

This unusual Magen David is inspired by the progression of a Koch snowflake