Ben Masters

10 posts

MF Doom Memorial Finale

May 1, 2021

Post 11: Final Report 2021 Part 2: How, Student Work

So my project ended up look quite a bit different from what I intended. To catch you up to speed, lemme summarize my plan going into all of this. MF Doom passed away in October of 2020. It was a testament to how crazy this past year has been that one of the most influential…

Hopes and Restraints for my Memorial

April 15, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 9: Top 5 constraints, top 5 specifications

After fleshing out my design and the beginning of the fabrication/building, I am starting to hone in on what I think I can realistically achieve by the end of this project and some possible constraints that have popped up along the way. 5 Specifications Museum Aesthetic – Luckily to achieve this I can take…

MF Doom Memorial Design Preview

April 5, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 8: Design Preview Report

I’ve put quite a bit of time into refining and reworking my design since it’s ideation stage. I’ve moved away from a lot of ideas that I realized weren’t going to work well for my final design and refined some of the features I already had. To start off, I was going to have this…

MF Doom Memorial Aesthetics

March 29, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 7: Main project aesthetics – plans and alternatives

I decided I wanted to do a memorial to artist Daniel Dumile or better known as MF Doom. He passed away in October of 2020. I had almost completely forgotten he had passed away at the age of 49. He was one of my favorite artists in high school and really introduced me to how…

My Thrifty Surfy Aesthetic

March 10, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 6: My Personal Aesthetic 2021

When I really started to think about this post, I was worried I didn’t quite have an aesthetic. I see people with a continuous aesthetic all around me. Instagram seems to be the hub of personal aesthetics. I know a lot of people who like to keep their page to a certain color palette or…

Graduation Gift to Myself: Final Project Ideas

March 7, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 5: Main project plans and inspirations

I’ve been struggling a lot to try and come up with an idea for what to do for this project. This irks me because I’m constantly looking around my house and on the internet seeing cool things other individuals have done and thinking, “Oh I’d like to try to build something like that” but of…

Miami Vice Nerf

February 25, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 4: Upcycle Final Report

Just a little recap for my original plan for this project… I bought some Nerf guns at the beginning of quarantine to curb my girlfriend and I’s boredom. It quickly devolved into being paranoid of walking into a room due to the fear of catching a Nerf dart in the eye. As the months progressed,…

Upcycling a Nerf Gun with an Outrun Aesthetic

February 10, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 3: Upcycle progress

For my upcycling project, I decided to upgrade a nerf gun and give it an Outrun aesthetic. If you do not know what Outrun is and would like a better idea, take a look at my previous 2 posts but it’s basically the Miami Vice and Synthwave look. I bought this nerf gun at…

Upcycling with an Outrun Twist

February 3, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 2: Upcycle Aesthetic

The famous painting “Great Wave off Kanagawa” w/ an outrun twist I already explored this aesthetic more in-depth for my “Explore and Aesthetic” post and that gave me a lot of inspiration regarding my upcycling project. To give a brief summary, outrun, or Miami Vice as I termed it based on my experience, utilizes…

Miami Vice

January 27, 2021

Ben Masters

Post 1: Aesthetics Explorations 2021

Before researching into this aesthetic, I always called it “Miami Vice”. I think this stemmed from a combination of seeing reruns of Miami Vice and the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which each took advantage of the color palate and nostalgic feeling that is often incorporated into this aesthetic. …