I found this key holder in the container store. It had their usual 400% markup, but I bought it anyway because i thought it was a really clever design and i wanted to support whoever thought of it. Hopefully that person works for the container store. Anyway, its fine for what it is, a smallish rare earth magnet hidden behind a wood veneer. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people who has more keys than the janitor, so it was always a struggle to get them to stick. Plus, it was way out of scale on the wall where we hung it. So, I decided to improve upon this contraption.
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There was an old camera called a Pixelvision that let you record video on an audiotape. It was awesome, no surprise, everything looks pixelated. Aaron Schain gave a great talk about it at the Best Ever Film Festival a few years back, but that’s another story. Anyway, this post isn’t about any of those things, I just liked the name.

Apparently, there is a street artist named Invader who puts life-size 8 bit mosaics of video game sprites all over the world. That guy is awesome. But I had no idea he did that when I started making my mosaics. So, sorry Invader, I never meant to rip you off, but when you spend 6+ years on a dissertation you need to do something that let’s you turn that part of the brain off and use other parts. That’s how this collection came about.
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It’s funny where ideas come from sometimes. When I was in college my parents bought a wine rack that looked a lot like this:

Except it had 8 slots and was a solid block of wood so each slot was it’s own cylindrical cell. Anyway, every time I looked at it I imagined it was a missile launcher like the ones on the back of my old GiJoe toys.

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