I'M
Kevin Strawn.

INNOVATIVE DESIGNER / MAKER

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Major Works completed:

FULLSPECTRUM at PureSpectrum HQ

Westlake Village, CA
2020

FULLSPECTRUM is a 15' tall wall installation created for the company PureSpectrum, designed, built, and installed by Kevin Strawn in 2020. The panels are all laser cut acrylic reflecting the four company colors of PureSpectrum. The panels are mounted to the wall using 153 stand offs at different heights to add a dynamic feel to the piece. From ideation, to construction, then installation, this project was designed and installed in 2 weeks. This piece is displayed in Kevin's Unreal Engine art gallery in the office it was designed for.

Read PureSpectrum's Blog post on the project here.

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Poly Kroma 2022 Gallery Design

Cal Poly Pomona, CA
2022

During Spring of 2022, Kevin was the fabrication team lead for the art gallery exhibition; Poly Kroma, Cal Poly's flagship gallery event for the art department. Kevin was in charge of designing and building all items required for the gallery including placement of the student kiosks, construction of wall installation items, as well as disassembly of the gallery upon the end of the event. For the gallery, Kevin built the 7' tall Poly Kroma totem poll, the 9 piece vinyl cut Poly Kroma letters, as well as CNC routered the wall designs that were then laser projected onto. The totem pole is displayed in Kevin's Unreal Engine art gallery in the College Projects wing.

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K-Taekwondo Rebranding and Tournament Design

Pasadena, CA
2025

In 2025, Kevin lead the rebranding of K-Taekwondo in its evolution to an open franchise, resulting in the expansion from 2 studios to 5. This new brand identity maintained the original design iconography of the original brand, but innovated and updated the branding to be more open to franchising. He designed, built, curated content for, and currently manage the new K-Taekwondo website for current and new students. Streamlined internal student onboarding and student database system to optimize office worktime by over 40%. The new database system enabled any new master to have a fully functional studio system with just a few tutorial videos. He managed the 2025 and soon 2026 California Invitation Taekwondo Championship Tournament that hosts 1000 competitors and 2000 Parents. Kevin created all marketing and physical content for the event, including certificates, medals, trophy plaques, posters, info and wayfinding signage, encouraging repeat competitors. More information is available on the spotlight page!

Link to the New K-Taekwondo Website

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Horsehill Vineyards Wine label design

Cal Poly Pomona, CA
2022

Kevin and his team were given a single task; design the wine label for Horsehill Vineyard’s 2020 Rosé. So that is what they did. They took inspirations from flora around campus, designed the typeface to look like grapevines, and printed it all in white on a clear label so that the bright pink wine could shine through. Kevin made a beautiful mock up of the label and they pitched the design to the client as a team along with all the other teams in the class. It turns out that their effort was worth it, because their label design was picked to be the official wine label for Horsehill Vineyard’s wine. To the left you can see the final design printed and on store shelves!

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The Strawn Project Gallery

Unreal Engine
2022

The Strawn Gallery is one of Kevin’s most ambitious projects. It is an Unreal Engine 5 game that is an art gallery of all of Kevin’s work up until the point that the game was created in Spring 2022. Everything in this game Kevin created, beyond the art the is displayed inside. He 3D modeled the whole building, created the floor plan, added in all the elements, organized it to look like a real gallery, textured the art and all of the walls and surfaces, lit the environment, programmed the doors, and recreated the entire PureSpectrum office where FullSpectrum is housed. This was truly a labor of love and it actually isn’t finished yet. Kevin has recorded voice lines, written out a plot, and come up with gameplay mechanics to uncover the mystery of the gallery, along with potentially expanding the gallery to contain more art from this year. So look forward to potentially seeing The Strawn Gallery as a complete game in the future. Shown above is a video walkthrough of Kevin's gallery, so take a look when you're done here!

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Driftwood Lyric music video

After Effects
2022

The Driftwood Music Video was an interesting challenge for Kevin to say the least. He was tasked with creating a music lyric video for a song that was chosen for him, and in Kevin’s case, it was Driftwood: A Fairy Tale by Cursive. There were two problems with this project though, the first was that he only had one week to produce and submit the video, and the second was that Driftwood had over a minute of horror ambiance at the end of the song, and Kevin had to use the entire song in the video. So Kevin, being the person that he is, strove to create the best After Effects music video he had ever created… his first After Effects music video. He had worked with After Effects a good amount in the past, but this was a whole different beast of a project, but he persevered. The end result was far more polished and professional than Kevin had anticipated, and he is proud of his accomplishment, especially finding a logical solution for the horror ambiance at the end that fit the theme of the song. Show below is the YouTube video of the music video, and it is highly recommended that you watch it as it is one of the best animations Kevin has created.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Videography

The Project Vault

Hey there, my name is Kevin and I thrive in the intersection of art, physical production, and technical integration. I love to use humor to liven up the atmosphere at work and with friends, and seeing the smiles of people who enjoy my work is the greatest reward!. I graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Visual Communication Design. For 4.5 years, I worked at the Student Innovation Idea Labs at Cal Poly as a technician. I am currently the brand designer, website manager, and an instructor at K-Taekwondo. I always have a side project going on, and you can keep up with my shenanigans through my Instagram linked below.

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Never thought I'd see a US Cutter booth at an anime convention, but here we are!

Hey everyone! Calling all people who want to make a difference in the world!

All I ask is before Monday March 25th, you donate food to either a food bank or an animal shelter to give to your community people and furry friends.

All I ask in return is you send me a photo of either the food you are donating or a picture of yourself donating the food. Have a wonderful day!

#donation #foodbank #awareness #giving #animalshelter

That's a wrap for Poly Kroma Industry Day 2023! On Saturday was Industry Day for PK and it went really great.
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We managed to finish all of the installation work for the gallery on time and it ended up looking exactly as I had hoped. The glowing lights, the vinyl circles, the totem, and my kiosk!
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I made my kiosk out of aluminum and mirror acrylic because I wanted to showcase that I can use materials that many other people don't use, and to show that I fused my engineering skills with my art skills. The best example of this is my portfolio book that I hand bound and made with an aluminum hard cover.
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Everything on my kiosk I made myself, my business cards, my book, the aluminum signs, my business card holders, and my sculpture displayed on the side.
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Today is 2D3D+ at 6 to 8 pm, so come by and check out the gallery if you'd like! (also thank you Quinn for the awesome picture of me at my kiosk!).
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#polykroma #polykroma2023 #art #gallery #installation #handmade #portfolio #bookofmetal #aluminum #laserprojection #totem #industryday #hiddenshelf #3dart

It's coming... Again
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In 6 days... Poly-Kroma begins
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I'm actually a little ahead of schedule this time instead of finishing this the day before, but stay tuned to see what the Ultra Rare Epic Season 23 PK Totem skin looks like.
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#polykroma2023 #artgallery #totem #R #Icantsleepyet #repaint #ultrarareepicseason23pktotemskin

This is The Gate.
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The light leads us on. The light is our guide. The light is the gateway.
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But we cannot enter. We cannot join the light. Not yet.
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This one I made after discovering that acrylic refracts light like this while building The City, and made it perfectly symmetrical and triangular. I wanted the light to move by itself, and I might upgrade it to that in the future, but for now it is manually operated with my flashlight.
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The Gate is a triangle that's width is the same as it's height with a black base and white backing. The center triangle is laser cut clear acrylic along with the base, but the backing is ABS (not laser cut I didn't want to die from cyanide gas inhalation, I actually cut it with a jig saw freehand, which I'm proud of). My flashlight moves left and right in the base so that the refracted light dances on the backing.
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This one wasn't really a challenge, but more of a perfection on the materials I am already skilled with. It ended up being one the the cleanest creations I've ever made, with very little left to be desired in the form of craft. I just had a good time making it in one sitting, which took just 7 hours!
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#art #sculpture #light #e4k #flashlight #nitecoree4k #lasercutter #craft #lightandspace #based #dancinglight #beyondlight #notdestiny

This is Innocence Lost.
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Memories of your life, the experiences that made you the person you were...
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Burnt away by the flames of pain and time.
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As morbid as that description is, its true. This is my second sculpture for my sculpture class and this time around I wanted to make something out of flash paper. A performance art piece that leaves nothing behind.
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Innocence Lost is a sculpture made entirely out of flash paper and flash string, held up on a wire ring. The paper is folded into origami cranes, crabs, paper air planes, and various other origami shapes to reflect the innocent memories of childhood. Once lit, the flash paper burns away quickly and completely, not even leaving smoke behind.
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I was a bit scared when I made this thing since I wasn't sure what would actually happen when I lit it. Would it burn slowly and not completely, would it burn the way it actually did, or would it just straight up explode? I had no idea since I could only do small scale tests, but I'm glad it didn't blow up on me. Every resource I found on the stuff said to use very little, and I kind of completely ignored that haha. It is weird not having a sculpture left after presenting though, makes me think I didn't turn it in.
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#fire #flashpaper #art #sculpture #performanceart #explosives #nitrocelulose #origami #origamicrane #cranes #innocence #lost #heat #smokeless #magic #ididntburnmyfaceoff

This is The City.
A place of symmetry, radiance, and fire.
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In all seriousness though, this is my first sculpture I produced for my sculpture class this year and I really wanted to push my limits on flame polishing acrylic, so that's exactly what I did.
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The City is comprised of 18 solid flame polished acrylic prisms (the tallest being just shy of 4 feet tall) that were cut from a large sheet of 1" thick acrylic. The spires are lit from the bottom using an LED strip housed in a base that I way over engineered so that I could repair the LEDs if they ever broke.
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The process of making this sculpture lead me to perfect my technique for flame polishing, which I'm quite happy about!
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#acrylic #flamepolishing #art #sculpture #lightandspace #leds #rgb #lasercutter #stayingupallnight #shiny #clear #mapgas #overeingineered

So here we are, it's the end of the semester and these are the major projects I completed for my classes this semester!
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The first is a redesign for Building 13, the art building, that I created with my Workshop 3D group. I made the 3D model, as you've seen previously, and this awesome render of it at night with neon lights.
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Next is my group's Horsehill Vineyards wine label design. Everyone in my group did an awesome job and I hope that we get chosen as the final label!
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Slug hole. Thats the whole thing. Bouncy Slug Cornhole.
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I'm tired now, time for bed.
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#artbuilding #bladerunner #googie #13 #wine #rosé #plants #slugs #cornhole #neon #tron #horsehill #vineyards #ineedtogotobedbuticantstopbeingcreativehelp

My 3D model of the art building, building 13, is done!
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It took me several days of drawing out and laser measuring the whole building (only 1 out of 10 total pages of dimensions I wrote down are shown), and then 12 total hours of 3D modeling, but I got it done.
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The model should be accurate within 1 to 12 inches, the biggest deviation being on the ground plane since it's pretty hilly by the engineering labs, but it works well enough.
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When I'm done using the model, I'll probably make the model free to use on Thingiverse, so stay tuned for that.
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#building13 #lasermeasuring #laser #3dmodeling #artdepartment #redesign #render

So we got it hot enough...
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Jack brought some square steel tubing to help retain the heat while heat treating, and it was far more spectacular and, more importantly, actually worked!
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The first time we tried it this time, we heated Jack's smaller knife made out of the same steel while the vice was pressed up against the brick wall. It worked, but after blasting a burn mark onto the wall, we ended up moving the vise away from the wall for mine, which was a GREAT idea.
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His knife took a lot less time to heat and we developed a system to get the best quench by the time we got to mine. Dillion heated the blade, Jack grabbed the blade out of the tube and placed it on the quenching plate (while wearing a maid outfit, it felt life a fever dream to be honest), and I pressed the blade to quench it.
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Even though we got it this hot, my blade only hardened along the blade edge, which is good and a success, but pretty much no where else. Jack's hardened almost entirely though since its about 1/4 the size. My knife blade turned green though, which is odd, but Tucker thinks it might be chromium oxide.
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Hopefully my next post will be showing off the completed knife! (This was just too cool not to share)
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#blademaker #knifemaking #d2steel #heattreat #maidcostume #fire #jet #sorryvice #hot #greenblade

Your friend Jack comes back and the next thing you know, you're using a flame thrower to try to heat treat a knife he gave you the material to make it out of (and the flame thrower).
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As you can surmise, this is a knife that I am working on currently. I didn't forge the billet, but I ground out the shape and am currently trying to get the heat treat right. The metal is D2 tool steel, and it requires a bit of a different heat treating process, notably the stainless envelope to prevent oxidization and decarburization. Another thing is that it likes to be plate quenched, squeezing it between two thick plates of aluminum, rather than oil quenched.
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Besides that, the handle scales will be an old chunk of ebony wood that Jack also gave me, along with the guard being a slab of solid copper that I have.
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I hope it turns out good, the only real challenging thing is the heat treat without a forge, but I'll figure it out.
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#knifemaking #blade #d2 #heattreat #flamethrower #1800F #quench #menacing #thankyoujack

Now that Poly-Kroma has had 2 out of 3 of it's main events, its time you all know how our beloved tower was built!
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The first step was to take the design of the totem by @roahnperez and model it in Fusion 360 so that I could get actual dimensions off of it to build the boxes. I had to design in an aluminum frame because the R needed to hold up the weight of the totem above it without buckling.
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Next was to go to the ENV model shop and CNC router out all the letters out of high density foam that we bought.
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I had to take the totem home over the weekend to finish it because it was crunch time to get everything done, so it went from the totem core and the routered pieces on Saturday morning, to the nearly finished totem by Sunday night.
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The last thing to do was add in the blue painted paper for the upper O and then deliver it to gallery!
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This project took a lot of time and effort, but it was worth it and incredible to hear everyone's reactions to seeing the real thing.
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I hope you all had a good and fruitful time at 2D3D+ and Industry Day, and if you couldn't make it to those events, the gallery will be up and open W-Th, Sa-Su from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm, so come on by and check it out at the Kellogg Gallery!
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#process #gallery #installation #goldbarman #allnighters #spraypaint #highdensityfoam #cncrouter #cncmachining #artgallery #art #polykroma2022 #artdepartment13 #project #artandengineering

HERE IT IS!!! Poly Kroma 2022 opened with a bang tonight and I'm so happy that it went well! Everyone loved the installations and I'm super proud of how it came out! Shout out to Michael and Yu for making the building of this gallery possible with me!
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If you want to see the gallery, it's open until May 20th at the Kellogg gallery from 12:00 to 4:00 pm, so come check it out!
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The totem is my son, the vinyl wall is my son, and the laser wall is my son, and I love them dearly. (Sorry your face is cut in half Ali, Instagram is stupid)
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#art #polykroma #totem #itsopen #2d3d+ #gallery #artdepartment13 #laserprojector

It's coming...
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Tomorrow... Poly-Kroma begins.
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#polykroma2022 #artgallery #totem #R #Icanfinallysleep #youdoubleyouyouitssobig

I'm going to get better about posting, I'll get there, but have you ever wanted to shove some acrylic through some concrete? Well I did that.
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This is my sculpture 2 for my Sculpture class with Professor Moore and I made this. I drew on my knowledge of Professor Kampf's concrete block project to make the mold and it turned out really good!
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#donaldjudd #acrylic #concrete #art #process #rock

I'm trying to get better at posting more often, but here is that Axe I talked about restoring years ago! I actually finished this back in the middle of 2021 but again, bad at posting. Regardless, the leather is a real leather wrap, the axe head is electro etched, and the handle of the axe is burned and stained to bring out the grain pattern in the wood and to match the dragon design I made for the blade. I hope you like it!
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#axe #dragon #fire #restoration #electroetching #leather #ineedtogetbetteratposting

It's been a while, but I've been busy!
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I bought this sword at a convention in 2021, and because I was bored, I built the whole box around it!
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The box is made out of solid Walnut and plywood and the upholstery is the runner from the hotel I stayed at during the convention.
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It took quite a long time to make, but the result is better than I could have imagined! Long live Destiny 1, the superior Destiny game in my opinion.
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#destiny2 #destiny #darkdrinker #exotic #heavyweapon #sword #destinysword #box #storage #game #videogames #maker #woodworking

Welcome home...
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https://ddlcmods.com/world-of-dreams/
#ddlc #dokidokiliteratureclub #ddlcmods #worldofdreams #act1

Anybody want some toast?
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#toaster #scion #xb #angelescrest #longexposure #usedaflashlightandan95

Memento Mori.

Unus Annus.

03:07:07:00

#unusannus #mementomori #thisistheend

Rise my son... You will be born anew!
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I found this old rusty axe head while going through some old tools that were left at the io from years ago, so I decided that I'm going to restore it and breathe new life into the this old tool!
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I'm not quite sure how old it is, so if anyone happens to know what year these style Vaughan axes were around, that would be great if you could let me know 👍
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#restoration #axe #axehead #rust #rusty #project #vaughan #vaughanaxe #restore #tool #io #imgonnalovethis

The mini monitor has been mounted and painted, and the cover has been laser cut, sewn, and glued!
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The monitor is attached with two tiny hinges at the base, and it has a little kickstand to hold it up, along with the cover to keep the screen clean and protected. I was able to power the monitor off of the power supply, so it boots when the computer turns on, which is suuuper nice. Even for its size, it's still a 1080p monitor!
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I sewed the straps and glued them to the acrylic with E600, I love the stuff, it's like a one part epoxy, and I just sinched the straps between the two panels of the monitor, so it's not permanent if the cover breaks.
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So as of right now, my computer is fully operational with one power cable since I have my Bluetooth mouse and keyboard.
I basically built a giant gaming laptop 😅
Now... How do I carry the dang thing...🤔🤔🤔🤔
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#aperture #aperturescience #computer #pc #pcbuilding #mobile #onepowercable #ohyeahitsallcomingtogether #paint #sewing #1080p #gaming #portal #lasercutting #kewl

It's time to 🅿️aint!
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Here's my computer the day that I finished the paint job on it along with the vinyl decals!
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All that's left now is mounting the top mini monitor and a few more things to finish it off.
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I'm really happy with how it looks and I can't wait to show you guys the final product 😁
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#aperture #cake #thecakeisalie #computer #paint #glados #portal #pc #building #funtimes

Let it begin... LET IT BEGIN! .
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My first PC has been built! I did it after finals a little bit ago, but I've been too exited about it and working on it to post about it haha. .
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And for all yall that what to know what's in it: It has an Intel i7-8700k CPU, 32gb of ram, a 2tb M.2 SSD, a Noctua NH-D15S cooler, an MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti VENTUS XS OC graphics card, all on an ASRock Z370M-ITX/ac, powered by an EVGA 500w 80+ power supply. The case is a Fractal Design Node 302.
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Now, onto painting and stylizing!
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#computer #intel #i7 #cpu #graphicscard #geforce #asrock #ssd #fractaldesign #302 #msi #building #pc #thiswasfun #evga #io #ilab #aperture

Just an amazing sunrise from my room, a Nubis Nubis in a sweater, and the best onion you will ever see haha. .
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Finals be a comin', mine are ALL ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY, and then I'm free the rest of the week lol, which is kinda noice.
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Anyways, I'll have lots to share come this winter break, a few big projects I'm working on, as well and the finished video that I worked on a while ago. It just sucks I get kicked out of my room at cpp for the winter 😭
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#sunrise #cpp #Anubis #dog #Nubis #onion #minionion #finals #iwannadie #mybankaccountiscryinghappily #vr

Wrapped shooting day two yesterday for the io title screen, so now I have all the footage I need to complete the video!
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It was cool once I finished shooting when I said "that's a wrap", but it was less cool since I was the only one there haha. Big sad, but it was still a fun experience to have.
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Using my car as a steady cam was a great discovery, and the fact that I can actually get my car in front of the io lol, not to mention I had to do it backwards! .
Now all I have to do is edit the entire video, do some color grading on the footage to make it look all pretty, and do all the vfx shots...
By Tuesday morning.
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I ain't sleeping tonight.. YEET (Dabs violently)
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#io #innovationorchard #vfx #greenscreen #titlescreen #sony #filming #nosleep #aftereffects #iwenttobedat3lastnight #itwasfun

Just finished day one of my first shoot ever! Shoot as in I'm using a set, a nice camera, and "equipment" if you can even call it that haha.
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I'm making a "TV show title sequence" for my animation class, but instead of a TV show, I'm doing the io. This video will be a 3 in 1 deal for me: it's for my animation class, we can use it at the io as marketing material, and I can use it in my portfolio!
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Now I just have to shoot some more footage tomorrow, and then edit it all before Tuesday!
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And thank you @monsieur_lithium
For making the PVC rig, it solved SO MANY issues!
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And don't mind the roof cardboard, it's supposed to be there
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#io #innovationorchard #ilabcpp #sony #aftereffects #greenscreen #gimbal #notreallyitsjustachairlol #flimingaloneisbigsadbutfun

Is it a hot wheels car? Is it a toaster? The world may never know.
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#toaster #drivingoncampus #smolcarissmol #thebigsad

Waiting for the elevators in the CLA is SOOOO bad since the second one is dead
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But it is nice when it's Friday since no one is here lol

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I'M Kevin Strawn.

INNOVATIVE DESIGNER / MAKER

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Major Works completed:

K-Taekwondo Rebranding and Tournament Design Pasadena, CA 2025

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I'M
Kevin Strawn.

K-Taekwondo Rebranding and Tournament Design

Pasadena, CA
2025