a portrait of a bald man with a large red/brown beard and round glasses. He is wearing overalls and a dark blue sweater, and doing his best to smile in a professional sort of way.

Josef Taylor

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OOTD

outfitoftheday.net

Main page - What are you wearing? A selfie, and a table of the garments worn in the selfie. Wardrobe page - Rainbow colored table of garments with stats. Graphs page - Violin plot showing wear frequency of various garments.

Outfit Of The Day is a tool to help people understand their wardrobe and fashion consumption habits. Using computer vison to check your fit each morning, the tool can guess what you're wearing, and calculate how much each garment costs per wear.

Outfit Of The Day can help you set goals about how you want to interface with fashion. You might find that you tire of clothing after a season; does that mean you should lean into the used market so that each piece is a little less dear, or that you should spend more time thinking about a big purchase to avoid getting swept up in the latest fad?


Stick Chairs

A wooden chair with a high back and armrests. A simple rectangular stool. A dark colored wooden chair with short armrests and a carved comb-back. A dark colored wooden chair with a brace-back.

Starting in February of 2020, I attended a private chairmaking workshop hosted by my brother Kagan at knowhowshopla.com and my friend Robert (instagram). This ignited in me a new joy of making, and I rapidly accumulated the required tooling to make more chairs in my own shop.

I have since made 4 chairs (at the time of this writing) and plan to make a total of 10.


Canvas Jackets

Dark indigo ticking stripe canvas jacket Medium grey canvas jacket Dark indigo linen canvas jacket

Inspired by workwear, but styled for my mostly office-bound life, I made these jackets to fit in wide range of circumstances, and hold up to a wide range of abuse. The jackets have notch lapels and round corners, like a modern suit jacket, but are unlined and made of heavy canvas, like a chore coat. The fit is typical of ordinary jackets from around a century ago- a little boxy, shorter in length, with four buttons so that the jacket can be closed up on a cold day. I've seen many old photos of folks wearing similar jackets buttoned only at the top, which keeps the jacket on during work, but keeps the waistcoat and trouser pockets easily accessible.

The jackets are based on the excellent Foreman pattern from Merchant & Mills


Movable Parts

Three people on stationary bicycles generating electric power for a dance party. Two people sitting in a pedicab with microphones, singing.

In 2014, I helped to start an art collective of musicians, organizers, and engineers with a shared mission to deploy creative practices to re-imagine streets and public spaces. We built a number of projects, including: Movable Party, a bicycle powered DJ machine, and Movable Karaoke, a portable public singing system on a converted pedicab.


Active Commute Challenge


Moving from Seattle to Los Angeles for my first engineering job, I rapidly learned I was one of the brave few who cycled to work in LA traffic. I wanted some company, so with help from the firm's leadership, I started an annual month-long event to encourage low-carbon active commuting. The first year, we gave away brand new bicycles to the winners, and every year we gave out t-shirts designed by one of our talented colleagues. (the design competition was almost as much fun as the commuting competition!) The commute challenge went on every year, eventually roping in the rest of the US offices, and came to an end with the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.