Category: Life

Charcoal Mike

It was my girlfriend’s birthday and she really likes Michael Jackson. I think this is the best charcoal I’ve ever done. 🙂

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The Locket, Directed by Carillon Hepburn

This amazing short film was written, directed, edited, and starred-in by my inspiring little sister, Carillon Smith (aka Carillon Hepburn).  She did it all in just 3 weeks, during a summer film intensive at Virginia Commonwealth University. The flick is a dynamic, mysterious, and gripping drama that touches on the themes of teen passion and […]

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Not So New News!

Just found out that my friend Jeremy and I made it into the New School newspaper last May, after being asked what our plans were for the summer! It’s amusing to compare a prior perception of a future level of achievement to an ex post facto critique on the same success state. The “graphic novel” […]

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On my way to becoming a cyborg!

5 days ago I got surgery on my right to repair a soccer injury from last October. I voluntarily opted to undergo a new start-to-become-a-cyborg corrective procedure and the x-ray photo below reveals my newly engineered foot. Below is an anatomy of my foot with a simple graphical depiction of what the surgeons did to […]

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[SHARED] CBCNews Article: EEG Shows Awareness in Some Vegetative Patients

A CBCNews article reveals: “Researchers [from the University of Western Ontario London] have discovered they can detect conscious awareness in some patients thought to be in a permanent vegetative state using an inexpensive EEG device that measures electrical activity in the brain.” Credit should be given to principal researcher Dr. Adrian Owen of the Centre for Brain and […]

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Reshape Outer Beauty – By Carillon Smith

My little sister, Carillon, made this video about girls who struggle with self-image. It’s amazing, touching, and inspirational, and I’m not just saying that because she’s my sister. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wQpnRgmSiQ&w=560&h=315] She also has a youtube channel about fashion and style, which teaches girls how to wear clothing, look pretty and feel good about themselves in […]

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This is a panoramic shot that I made in Photoshop by stitching together 3 stationary shots (from different angles).  I used a lot of blur, smudge, stamp, and the film grain filter.  If you look carefully you can see a jagged seem down the middle of the photo where the teal of the “left” sky […]

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nyc_livin’

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