Nothing is impossible
within the sphere of reality.
You have an idea that probably can't be done.
I find the path through the jungle of technology so you don't have to. From dome projection systems built from a lampshade prototype to interactive LED installations driven by sensors you'd find in a robot vacuum — I make creative visions real. The gap between what an artist imagines and what physically exists in the world is where I live.
I am not a software house. I am not an agency. I am the person you call when everyone else said no.
A dome projection environment. No off-the-shelf solution existed for the space. The client wanted full-sphere immersion on a budget.
Built a prototype from a lampshade. Developed the rear-projection fluid system. Mapped the dome with NestMap and TouchDesigner. Designed and implemented the full technical infrastructure from scratch.
Dance in a cave of crystals. Have them respond. The brief stopped there.
Computer vision to Kinect Azure. When that hit its limits: a spinning lidar. Then 14 discrete lidar sensors. 2 Teensys. 9 universes of LEDs. The crystals know where you are. They remember you moved.
A room that should feel like a transaction with the dead. Real offerings. Real presence.
Load cell offering bowl — it knows when you place something on it. Pepper's Ghost projections inside glycerin-filled bottles. Arduino and Raspberry Pi running a narrative system that responds to presence. The dead, it turns out, are very responsive.
A mirror hallway. Visitors should feel watched. Like the space itself is alive.
Overhead cameras. Pose estimation. The mirrors track you. Built in seasonal modes nobody asked for. Built in a ghost transparency effect nobody asked for. When you do it right, nobody asks why — they just feel it.
I grew up in the desert and plains of Roswell, New Mexico. I still live a few blocks from where the pavement ends.
After years of chasing my tail, I ran away to join the circus — specifically, one of the most technically complex immersive art installations in the world. For nearly a decade, I've kept Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return alive with the help of many others.
High Lonesome is what came next. The gap between what an artist imagines and what physically exists is a solvable problem. It's just a problem not many want to touch.
I want to touch it.
Got a nail? I'm a hammer.
If you have a project that probably can't be done — the kind where everyone you've called so far said "interesting idea" and then got very busy — I want to hear about it.
teaguejg@yahoo.com