Blog - Mac Pierce

This past weekend (September 19th, 2026) I attended an iron pour at the Milwaukee Maker Space where I put together a few large molds and got to run around with some 2800°F metal.

It’s been in the name the whole time.

I was about to host a LAN Party within spitting distance of aesthetic computers I’d spent months on.

I’ve always had difficulty squaring the tension in metal casting for artistic purposes.

For anyone who's been chronically online in the past couple of months, the terms “Vance head” and “Ghibli slop” have an eye-rolling, almost revolting quality.

Been a minute !

A while back I started the 1A2A3D project, a group of objects that took concepts from American gun culture and used 3D-printing to highlight some of the absurdities of it by making objects derived of those concepts.

These past couple of months I’ve been working on more sculptural projects related to my 1A2A3D project, some of which are accessories to larger pieces I’ve been working on.

It’s not often that a project takes years to complete, but sometimes an idea comes together that predates your ability to bring it into reality.

I’ve been recently working with p5.js, a JavaScript library that plays nice with browsers that excels at making responsive graphics quickly.

As I write this, we’re in the midst of a new variant of Covid-19 that has begun to spread from its country of origin into the larger world.

“Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break , every step you take, I’ll be watching you.” — The Police, "Every Breath You Take" (1983) A few months back I was standing in line to check out in my local Home Depot’s garden center.

The Stuxnet virus was discovered in 2009, after spreading far beyond its intended target When it was discovered and subsequently examined, it revealed just how sophisticated a virus could be.

I’ve been slowly assembling a collection of camera gear, and as part of that I’ve been assembling a whole mess of batteries to run that equipment on the fly.

Reposting a few musings from 2015, made many moons and a few printers ago… I've been thinking quite a lot recently about the term actualization and how it applies to making art with a 3D printer.

About a year ago I was invited to assist with a Magic Wheelchair project, where a team of crafty folks work to build a costume for a wheelchair bound kid.

The Constitution of the United States of America is a living document.

“Go to everything, see everything, talk to everyone.” - Excerpt from a slide my art history professor briefly had on the screen.

Much like the rest of the internet, a few weeks ago I was caught up in the beautiful FREKVENS line, which was a line of Bluetooth speakers and sound-reactive lights offered through Ikea but largely designed by the prolific Teenage Engineering.

A few days ago (1/20/20) I gave a talk about the current state of Facial Recognition and my response to it.

Oh bother.