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Visual Works

Creations by Andrew in various visual media.
I am constantly creating visual works. Most are sculptural, often a simple concept but requiring significant labor. Some are software. NOTE: Many of these are only a single highlight from a project. Click through to find more on some works in context. Also see my Music and Projects pages.

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Pizza
Basic Vegan Pizza Recipe

Cookies
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Orbs Ride
Plan for The Orbs Ride, visiting spheres while playing music of The Orb and Orbital.

Crow Art Ride
Ride visiting several major works of crow art, murals and sculptures around Portland.

Portland themed holiday cards.
Featuring some of my favorite and/or iconic things here, fir trees and crows, roses and bicycles, bridges and our cat.

Tetris Tater Tots
Fried potatoes shaped like pieces from famed puzzle video game Tetris.

Star Trek : First Contact Day ride
Celebrating Star Trek's high holy day.

Running DOOM on my bike.
Pursuant to the popular "It runs DOOM!" nerd challenge.

Vegan Jello Shot Checkers
Vegan Jello Shots and downsized playable board.

"Meat and Two Veg"
Dick shaped vegan sausage shepherds pie loaf.

Vegan Soylent Green
Vegan dish parodying the 1973 sci-fi movie Soylent Green in which a popular green food is found to have dystopian ingredients.

Gratitude Ride
Foster Night Ride Thanksgiving-Eve-Eve edition TURKEY SHAPED ROUTE!

2001: A Bike Odyssey
Bike costumed as Discovery from "2001: A Space Odyssey" for the Galactic Disco ride. Includes lights and AI with HAL's voice.

Art vest of Apollo lunar missions patches set.
Skylab and ISS patches on the front.

Foster Night Ride spoke cards.
"Action! Adventure! U-Turns!"

Bike costumed as a Klingon star ship
Decorated as a Bird of Prey from the fourth movie for the Star Trek ride.

EmoBot
Successor to CyBell the Sentient Bike Bell.

Clay crafting
With family for the holidays.

Pingo
Portland Bingo WebApp.

SkaterBot
Statuette of RobotoPDX for his birthday.

Magic Vegan Chocolate Rolls
Vegan version of Tootsie Rolls.

Star Trek Sounds WebApp.
A dozen classic effects in LCARS format.

PlayDoh statue of David
For a local tiny art gallery.

CyBell the Sentient Bike Bell
Electronic Bike Bell with many sounds, senses and feelings.

United Federation of Cyclists
Stickers for an imaginary utopian bike club based on Star Fleet principles.

Tiny Banksy girl with heart balloon sculpture
In mid shred just like the original, for the local tiny art gallery.

Portland Pony
My take on the tradition of sprinkling Portland OR with decorated toy horses.

Rick Roll Wall Phone
Replaced the guts of a 1960s wall phone to make it funny.

Electronic Bike Bell
Electronic Bike Bell (v3) with 20 sounds. Built with an ESP32 microcontroller. Connects to a bike stereo.

"Virtual Love Meter"
Working online reproduction of a vintage penny arcade machine.

Earth painted rocks
For a local park.

Andrew's big bike trick.
Balloon twisting behind my back while bike riding no hands.

Micro-Bob
Lego Bob Ross filled with every Joy of Painting episode.

"Super Gaia" poster
For World Naked Bike Ride Chicago.

Nano-Bob
All 403 episodes of Joy of Painting on a chip smaller than a penny.

Retro Computer art ride flyer
Mimics vintage software styling. For Bike Winter Art Show Ride.

Tiny Spacewar!
~1:30,000 scale replica of the first computer video game

"Time is Money"
Clock with face covered in various currencies then acrylic resin coated.

Virtual Billy Bass
Web-based version of an iconic toy, speaks weather and more with synchronized animations.

Decoupage dresser
Made with three best friends.

Artists of the Wall 2016
Artists of the Wall segment with friends.

BonBots
Robot shaped fine chocolates.

Robotoperation.
Fix Zed by removing the loose nuts.

InfoWall
At-a-glance time, weather, webcams and more.

Art Helmets
Decoupaged with a Chicago bike routes map.

Artists of the Wall 2013
Segment with friends.

Photomosaic Poster for Artists of the Wall fest 20th anniversary,
Made of my photos from all prior festival years.

Body painting
Molly's back by Andrew.

The Not Straight Ride
Diagonals heavy Chicago Critical Mass route for Pride month by Andrew Bedno.

Artists of the Wall Festival 2012
"WWPD?" What Would Pan Do?

Hand painted working QR code
Scanning show a random photo from the past twenty years of the Artists of the Wall Festival in Rogers Park.

"Love USA? RIDE A BIKE!"
Body painting on Jera by Andrew.

Chocolate covered Facon
Vegan version of bacon decadence.

Gingerbots
Ginger bread robot cookies by Andrew.

Holiday Cards
Jera hand cut the hearts lino printing block.

Apps For Metro Chicago finals.
Bedno.com/bike won eleventh place in a transportation apps contest.

Cairns
Built with Crystal.

Patriotic pride flag body painting
On Jera's back by Andrew.

Decoupage dresser.
Jera's birthday DIY party.

Floral face body painting
Jera's birthday by Andrew.

Coordinated the 7th World Naked Bike Ride - Chicago.
My fifth year as keeper of the clipboard.

Music arm paintings
Jera at yard sale.

Kids-n-Kites fest body painting
On Jera

Circus movies collection
Assembled an exhaustively comprehensive topic anthology.

Lonely locked bits of bike
Collection dozen of photos and geolocations on Bedno.com/bike

Riddler costume
Built a professional quality Halloween outfit after studying the movies and shows.

"Water Mass"
Water themed route for Chicago Critical Mass 2009.08.28

Artists of the Wall Festival 2009
World Naked Bike Ride - Chicago segment #99 by Andrew and Danielle.

Earth Mass
Earth Day themed route for Chicago Critical Mass 2009.04.24

Winter Holiday cards to friends
Hand made in several passes.

Single Balloon Starship Enterprise by Andrew Bedno.

Obama cookies.
Sliced roll cookies forming the Hope logo.

Face painting summer 2008
Andrew at various summer festivals

The Zoom Project
wall-sized print of views from visible universe down to tiniest subatomic distance.

Coordinated the 5th annual World Naked Bike Ride Chicago
My 3rd time in charge, setting the world's record with 1700 riders.

Sound design and production for "Journey of the Arabella"
A pirate circus play by Forms In Motion.

Clown team lead
Working with Triton Troupers Circus.

Hand made holiday cards
Batches of several dozen to friends, hand made in several passes.

Amazing Christmas tree hat
With decorations, gifts, and working lights.

Girlscout / Boyscout costumes
Susan and Andrew for Halloween.

Comedy Skits at Rib Fest.
Andrew and Susan performed with Forms In Motion circus in Forest Park.

Clown Week Celebration at Showmen's Rest Cemetery
Assisted Susan with production.

Face Painted samples
Andrew at various fest through summers.

Artists of the Wall Festival 2007
Andrew and Susan's segment ("Secret Garden" themed).

Coordinated the 4th World Naked Bike Ride Chicago
2nd year leading. Ended at the Oprah sign.

Andrew's big skating trick.
Triton Troupers Circus. Andrew jumping Susan in opening skit.

Mister Freeze and Poison Ivy costumes
Andrew and Susan at Halloween Nocturna.

Artists of the Wall Festival 2006
Andrew and Susan's segment ("Natures Palette" themed).

Coordinated the 3rd annual World Naked Bike Ride Chicago.

Andrew's an excellent balloon twister
An Andrew original, a juggling clown balloon.

Commando Corporal Kawalski
Andrew in Area 51 for Fright Fest at Great America.

Cicada sculpture
Remembering summer 2005.

Artists of the Wall Festival 2005
Andrew and Susan's segment ("Sister Cities" themed) in Rogers Park.

"Christmas in Wartime"
Art project for the era, all camouflage gift wrapping.

Circle theme birthday cake

Korben and Leeloo Dallas costumes
Andrew made both, extensive detailing. With Faith.

Earth painted blown egg ornaments

Decoupage dresser.
Made with Diane. Oil based coating.

Vacuum tube ornament

Borg Costumes

Borg pumpkin

American flag tie-dye clothes
Used several dunking passes.

Talking Automatic Twister Spinner
Provides hands-free play of Twister game.

American flag Easter eggs
Used several dipping passes.

Stained Glass Window cookies
Translucent edible ornaments.

Photo Mosaic Self Portrait
Composed of several hundred photos I'vee taken of Chicago.

The funeral of Miss Mouse E. Mouse

SpongeBob Jack-o-lantern

Star Trek collection and shrine

Mini tri-counter
Tiny device for statistical and attendance sampling.

Wizard costume.
Skating and weather compatible Halloween outfit.

Chicago Entertainment Info terminals
Created free-standing Chicago Fun News kiosks.

Artists of the Wall Fest 2001
Painted a segment in the Rogers Park mural. This year's theme: "2001: A Neighborhood Odyssey".

Robot Jack-o-Lantern.

Assisted with the Charybdis arts center.

Artists of the Wall 2000
Painted a segment.

Zen Rubix Cube.
It's the journey, not the destination.

Chicago Skater Social system.
Created popular Bedno.com/skate web site and mailing list.

Getalife™ software
Wrote gag program to Fights computer addiction. Mentioned positively in various national press including Newsweek.

Artists of the Wall fest 1999
Daniel and I painted a lakefront mural segments.

Edward Scissorhands Halloween Costume
Complete with facial scars.

Me pad.
To play with clothing design I computer generated an outline of myself and had it copied to a pad.

Video Wall programming
One of two video walls I've had the pleasure of programming. This one shows scenes from a tape sold at the newly opened gift shop.

Art Photo Pinball Game
Made several with various pictures as gifts. Simple, playable, strangely beautiful.

Monochromatic Meals project
A few examples, with matching girlfriend.

Spiral Cut Safety Pin Shirt
Did several variations, this one is supposed to be a double helix.

Four Level Tic-Tac-Toe
Simple rules, complex play.

Chronosaurs
Wooden skeleton models, marbleized, with a digital clock. Made a series as gifts.

Audio sample alarm clock
Patched together digital clock, amplified speakers, toy chip and circuits to implement recordable wake-up message.

Circuit Schematic T-Shirt
Making something special out of something simple, this is an actual modem diagram transcribed with permanent pens.

Home workout routine quick reference

Chain Belts
Created a series in metal and plastic . Padlock at one end and key at the other is sheer simplicity while intriguing and perfectly wearable.

Annoying Cube
Built clear plastic cube containing six electronic music modules, one on each side, which play Lara's theme all slightly out of sync when picked up.

Refrigerator Magnets Collection
Eventually grew to several dozen, all strictly contemporary household appliance related.

"Greensville" Train Set
Soldered tracks, lights, sounds and modular construction.

Fractal software
Created Fractal rendering software in Pascal for DOS and generated a short movie.

Robot Mouse
Traditional techno-geek project with Daniel. Fully planned before before construction, eventually topped $200.

Electronic Puzzle
20 piece puzzle appears to assemble some working electronic device, but is actually just aesthetic.

Space Jacket
A favorite piece, which I touch up and use every winter. Features an accurate Earth, moon and solar system, as well as other assorted celestial objects.

Gear Outfit
Black vinyl jacket decorated with large gold gears, painted on using carefully drafted masks.

Disk Carvings
Originally just something to do with bad 5.25" disks.

Autograph of John Bardeen
One of the Nobel winners in 1956 for the invention of the transistor.

Busy Box
As Daniel headed for busy box age in late 1988, I felt he needed better than the average plastic thing.

Educational Computer Games for exhibit industry
Sample screens from "Spinnoffs" shown, which ran in the Museum of Science and Industry for more than a decade.

Playing in bands since before high school
Bass and sequencers.

Childhood bust of dad
Papier-mache on styrofoam form then bronzed with my dad's help when I was just a tween.