TED Talk: Why I Built a Time Machine!

I spent the spring at TED this year, working on developing a VR piece about Coney Island’s Luna Park, and writing a talk about how technology has shaped entertainment. Cramming a TED talk into six minutes was no easy feat. The idea was to look back at the past as a lens to consider how […]

Fred at TED!

It’s been hard to keep my mouth shut the last two months, but I am finally able to announce that I will be spending the next 3 months as a Resident at TED, working on a project to recreate turn of the 20th century Thompson & Dundy’s Luna Park in VR, with an accompanying TED talk […]

Scan-A-Rama 3D Portrait Studio 2015 Year in Review

Before the year ends I wanted to write about some of the events I was able to be a part of this year with the Scan-A-Rama 3D Portrait Studio. I had a spectacular year of making 3D portraits for thousands of people at a slew of events that included talks as well as scanning events at the Innovation Loft, Midwest […]

Scan-A-Rama 3D Portrait Studio at Theatre Bizarre 2015!

Its been a whirlwind year and I have completely neglected documenting all the things I’ve been up to, so I’m going to make a push in the next month to write up everything, starting with this year’s pilgrimage to Theatre Bizarre, Detroit’s amazing masquerade ball held in the world’s largest Masonic temple. Last year, I brought […]

Jetguy Big Boy CoreXY to be Exhibited at World Maker Faire New York

Jetguy‘s custom built CoreXY open source 3D Printer will be showcased at World Maker Faire New York this weekend at the Scan-A-Rama 3D Portrait Studio in the lower level of the New York Hall of Science building. Come out and watch this amazing machine with an amazing 330x325x390mm build area, filament detection to pause prints […]

Kembra Pfahler 3D Portrait

I 3D scanned Kembra Pfahler of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black this spring and have been working on a 3D portrait of her off and on for a while now. My initial intent had been to do something with many arms, reminiscent of the Hindu goddess Kali, an image inspired by her love of blue […]

Bay Area Maker Faire Talk: Fredini’s History of Technology as Entertainment

Its been a whirlwind ever since I went out to San Francisco for Maker Faire. I meant to post a recap of some of my favorite highlights of the weekend, but have been swamped with Scan-A-Rama and getting ready for this year’s fellowship at Wheaton Arts. This week I’m doing a quick visiting artist stint […]

On The Road To Bay Area Makerfaire

Tomorrow, I fly out to San Francisco to bring the Scan-A-Rama 3D Portrait Studio to the Bay Area. If you’re attending Maker Faire, please stop by to say hi. We will be in the large 3D printing tent and would love to make a 3D portrait for you. I’m also presenting Sunday at 1:30pm on the […]

New Scan-A-Rama Marketing Banners

These just arrived in time for Tomorrow’s Makerfaire at the Newark Museum… Slick, huh?

New Luna Park Photos By Raymond Adams

Raymond Adams (http://www.raymondadams.net/) is a photographer friend who I met out in Coney Island. He’s been shooting in the neighborhood for while now and was a Kickstarter backer of Coney Island Scan-A-Rama. He recently came out to meet me in Coney and shot some nice portraits of me in the installation of Luna Park at the […]