Jason Olshefsky's Other Projects

I decided to make a list of some of my other projects as it seems they slip into obscurity once I stop talking about them on the main JayceLand.com page. So, here they are ... most-recent-first, more-or-less:

• In March, 2010, I designed and built red lights for a talisman prop in a movie by Nicholas Gurewitch.
• In 2010, I designed the map for the third annual FrostBurn, a winter camping and Burning Man-styled event in rural Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh in February.
• In July, 2009, I published on the website Instructables an "Instructable" titled The Pocket-Sized, Clip-On, Rear-View Mirror.
• In May, 2009, my girlfriend Ali and I acted in the film The Beast Pageant.
• In May, 2009, I published on the website Instructables an "Instructable" titled Replace a Dead Rechargeable Battery in a Shaver [or any rechargeable appliance] with Standard AA or AAA Batteries.
• In 2008, I started working on a project called The Energy Game which is a card-based "game" designed to help people plan their energy needs (particularly electricity, gasoline, lights, generators, etc.) for camping.
• In August, 2007, I published on the website Instructables an "Instructable" titled Make an Evaporative Terra Cotta Beer Chiller which was featured on the site's e-mail and I won a T-shirt for a "Go Green" contest.
• In July, 2007, I published on the website Instructables an "Instructable" titled The Smart, Stealth LED Blinkenlight documenting a hidden bicycle rear blinker, and one titled Convince yourself to just use a 12V-to-AC-line inverter for LED light strings instead of rewiring them for 12V.
• In April, 2007, I published on the website Instructables an "Instructable" titled Replace the DC plug on an Apple iBook silver "yo-yo" power adapter.
• I was an on-air personality for a progressive-politics radio show titled The Coalition of the Shrill on WITR 89.7 FM from December, 2006 to March, 2007.
• I wrote an essay/review of the movie American Blackout at The High Falls Film Festival for Lake Affect Magazine, Volume 30 in November, 2006.
• In October, 2006, I got an Account on Instructables.com. It is a website that lets people document how they made something so that others can make the same thing.
• At Burning Man in August, 2006:
  • I worked with my friend Sondra Carr and a bunch of other people on her project Facing Our Fears which was a grant-funded art project. I designed and built the portable, modular, internal deck structure and I designed and built the LED floodlights for night-time viewing to run off a car battery.
  • I wrote an article titled "A yahoo's view of BRC" for the The Piss Clear Newspaper Issue #31.
  • I helped debug the lighting and computer sequencer for Kate Raudenbush's funded art project, Duel Nature.
• I repaired The Bike With 2 Brains and included it in the ARTWalk Muse-A-Thon on June 10, 2006 for people in the Rochester area to get a chance to try it.
• I wrote a short story titled Narrow Window of Opportunity for The Best Cure For A Broken Heart, a book published by Snore & Guzzle Press in February, 2006.
• The Bike With 2 Brains is a funded art project I created for Burning Man in 2005. It's a 4-wheeled vehicle that requires two active riders: both must participate to propel and to navigate.
• I was involved with The Rochester Outdoor Museum of Art from May, 2005 to March, 2006. It is a project to change downtown Rochester into a museum of large-scale art — starting with huge photographs on buildings.
• Jason DoesItAll is a business I created as an umbrella for any contracting-type projects I take on. I found that I have lots of skills and I don't really like doing just one of them so I decided to offer them all at once.
• The JayceLand CafePress Store is an attempt to cash in on all my creative ideas for T-shirts and stuff. Among them was The Heartbroken Bear depicting a bear cookie with its cookie heart ripped out.
• Jason Olshefsky Photography is a site for my photography.
• Jason Olshefsky's Travel Diary is a bunch of things I've done in the past and where I put any interesting vacation tales.
• The Original JayceLand Vanity Page is a site I made in 1995 and updated now-and-again. Before there were blogs, there were "vanity pages" where you'd talk about yourself and all your accomplishments and stuff. It's almost entirely out-of-date, but there's some amusing things lying around that I just never bothered to clean up.
• Gracies Dinnertime Theatre was an independent magazine at RIT I wrote for in 1997, several years after I graduated. I co-wrote many articles in Volume 8 and Volume 9. The beauty of the whole thing was group editing — where one person would bring the guts of an article in rough form, we (the 5 or 6 editors) would read through it once. On the second reading, anyone could stop and make a suggestion — an addition or a footnote, typically — and requirement was, "if you can justify it, it gets included." for instance, I wrote the first part of the article Wonderful Life and it was vastly improved through the group edit. That, and we hijacked the issue from April 14, 2004 from the staff at that time (Volume 28, Issue 6) and did it "old school."

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