arizona sunset #1 (tucson)
02 jul 2022 | design

Arizona has beautiful sunsets.Captured on my Olympus E-M10 Mark III (ISO-100, f/2.8).

national park animals #1: pinnacles, kings canyon, sequoia
27 jun 2022 | design

America s national parks are a treasure that everyone who lives in, or visits, the United States should have a chance to enjoy. We recently visited three national parks: Pinnacles, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia. Each has beautiful landscapes and flora; however, another attraction is the diversity of animals, from squirrels to bees to several bears (including a mother and cub!).If you look closely in the top-right photo, you can see a snake hiding under the rock (the squirrel gave a series of warning calls while approaching the snake before/during the photo).Captured on my Olympus E-M10 Mark III (various settings, lenses).

blood moon (19th november 2021)
19 nov 2021 | design

Captured on my Olympus DSLR camera using a tripod during a partial blood moon lunar eclipse on 19th November 2021 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2021_lunar_eclipse). Luckily, there was a tall building nearby with an unobstructed view of the moon and the clouds that night miraculously decided to have fun in another portion of the sky or give me just the right moment where I could capture the next phase of the eclipse.

Images captured with low ISO (e.g. <100) settings (to minimize noise) and exposure times of 1/60 to 3.2 s that allowed me to capture the moon illuminated by the sun (when it looks gray) and the portion being eclipsed (red, the bright light on the left side of the moon is the overexposed sun-exposed portion).

This image is a composite, created in Photoshop, of several different shots taken throughout the night. The pictures were not adjusted, I used blending modes and layer masks to allow overlay of each picture close to one another without needing to crop the photos, which would have led to sharp edges between moon pictures and a less anesthetically pleasing photo.

biafra ahanonu dissertation oral exam
31 july 2018 | design

The announcement poster for my Stanford PhD university oral exam.

filugori book cover, version 1
18 august 2019 | design

One of the initial designs for a book cover for my planned sci-fi book Filugori.

campaign poster 2016 no. 6 | americans edition simple
11 jan 2017 | design

This is an updated version of Election poster no. 6 with a focus on Americans instead of President-elect Trump. This is the background wallpaper version.

campaign poster 2016 no. 6 | americans edition
11 jan 2017 | design

This is an updated version of Election poster no. 6 with a focus on Americans instead of President-elect Trump.

is freedom necessary?  poster #1
31 dec 2016 | design

Challenge ideas and assumptions now: be better prepared to defend them in the future.

A worthwhile read: https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/.

This poster is the first in a series of posters that will explore the relationship between freedom (liberty/license) and various ills plaguing society. It ultimately aims to get people thinking about calls to limit freedom, the context in which these calls arise, and what that means when taken to the extreme.

https://twitter.com/syscarut/status/815047192494804992 #IsFreedomNecessary

campaign poster 2016 no. 6 | americans edition
18 nov 2016 | design

This is an updated version of Election poster no. 6 with a focus on Americans instead of President-elect Trump. Will likely do a continuing series of these posters. Description of previous copied below.

Assuming a President Trump, this is a 3-for-1 future retrospective with a style reminiscent of some older presidential posters.

Those who listen to Trump's full speeches/interviews or read his books get a dose of his boundless optimism mixed in with his more pessimistic views about the current state of the Union. Given his current run of policy speeches, focused the poster on the former trait.

2016 election: truth and propaganda
27 oct 2016 | design

Surprises and knee-jerk reactions can arise from a fear of wading into the deep, dark swamps where the truth is oft found.

jill stein campaign poster 2016 no. 1
18 oct 2016 | design

Presidential election 2016 poster no 11!

Completing the major candidates set.

Even if one doesn't agree with all of her positions or worldview, it is worth listening to Dr. Stein's speeches and interviews along with evaluating her stances in greater detail. Might come away with a new idea or two.

donald j. trump campaign poster 2016 no. 7
04 oct 2016 | design

While everyone focuses on the predictable, over-the-top sayings of one candidate, sometimes it is another's more subtly dicey pronouncements that cause sweat to start trickling down one's brow.

It may be shrewder to continuously complement—rather than smear with cries of "dictator!"—an elected President who brought prosperity to a crumbling, dispirited, nuclear-armed nation.

donald j. trump campaign poster 2016 no. 6
14 sep 2016 | design

Assuming a President Trump, this is a 3-for-1 future retrospective with a style reminiscent of some older presidential posters.

Those who listen to Trump's full speeches/interviews or read his books get a dose of his boundless optimism mixed in with his more pessimistic views about the current state of the Union. Given his current run of policy speeches, focused the poster on the former trait.

donald j. trump campaign poster 2016 no. 5
26 aug 2016 | design

All the hoary takedowns of Trump and his supporters seem to ignore that many may simply desire another Reagan, TR, or JFK rather than a Wilson, LBJ, or Nixon.

Re: poster, President Trump would be the one audacious enough to declare and wheel-n-deal to get the budget for and excitement behind an American landing on Mars by the end of his second term, yielding to untold technological/scientific benefits similar to the Apollo program.

gary johnson campaign poster 2016 no. 1
18 aug 2016 | design

Time to get rid of the negative all talk, no action mindset of "You are wasting your vote by voting third party this election", etc., etc. If you are on the right side of history and want to improve a failed system, do it now! Just like the Founding Fathers did.

2016 election: power and the presidency
04 aug 2016 | design

I'll keep hammering on the need for more positive, high energy surrounding election coverage.

What appears to be lacking in the discourse surrounding modern Presidential elections is: would people become so impassioned if the Presidency was still constitutionally limited (to Article II)?

donald j. trump campaign poster 2016 no. 4
20 jul 2016 | design

Sixth in the 2016 Presidential poster series.

The poster is self-explanatory. Trump is now the GOP nominee. There needs to be more positive, high energy in this election season. That is all.

american exceptionalism no. 1
04 jul 2016 | design

No context needed, America is awesome. Celebrating Independence Day!

donald j. trump campaign poster 2016 no. 3
07 jun 2016 | design

Fifth in the 2016 Presidential poster series.

Went to a Trump rally in San Jose last Thursday (June 2nd) to see what they are like in person. It was very (positive) high energy and the people I met were courteous, even when noting I wasn't a supporter.

Left the rally and stayed around to observe the anti-Trump protesting (rioting) after. Also high energy, but in a physically violent, intolerant, and nasty way. A complete disgrace.

This poster focuses on the positive high energy.

bernie sanders campaign poster 2016 no. 1
01 jun 2016 | design

2016 Presidential poster number 4.

During speeches, Senator Sanders has delved into America's past to show when the hand of government helped push the United States to new heights. Wanted to honor the loftier aspects of his rhetoric with a poster to match.

Additional high energy posters forthcoming...

hillary clinton campaign poster 2016 no. 1
09 may 2016 | design

Continuing the 2016 Presidential campaign poster series. Wanted this one to be simple and to the point before designing a more elaborate one for Senator Clinton.

donald j. trump campaign poster 2016 no. 2
09 may 2016 | design

Part 3 in the 2016 Presidential campaign poster series.

"Under budget and ahead of schedule" is an easy to remember phrase. Fits Trump's campaign rhetoric, so here's the poster. Originally was a direct numbers-to-numbers comparison with all the other candidates, but that got a little busy...

donald j. trump campaign poster 2016
09 feb 2016 | design

Wanted to make a series of 2016 presidential candidate posters like I did for the 2012 race. The first is for Donald Trump and focused on emphasizing his general goals rather than specifics. They were also left appropriately vague to allow the viewer to interpret them through their own lens/opinions on the issues.

john f. kennedy
12 may 2015 | design

Decided to begin finishing my series of presidential posters. The best part of JFK's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech isn't necessarily the actual goal, but the justification for why we want to achieve that goal.

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