Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Lemon Sauce

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 T water
1 egg well beaten
3 tea lemon juice

Combine all ingredients, heat to boil over low heat stirring constantly.

Lion House Potatoes

6 Potato
3 Tbsp Margarine
1 Can Cream Of Chicken Soup
1 Cup Sour Cream
1/2 Cup Milk
3 Tbsp Green Onion, chopped
3/4 Cup Sharp Cheddar Cheese, shredded
2 Tbsp Margarine, melted
3/4 Cup Corn Flakes, crumbled

1. Peel potatoes, boil, cool and shread into casserole dish.
2. Combine margarine, soup, sour cream, milk, green onions and cheese. Warm in a sauce pan and spread over potatoes.
3. Combine melted margarine and corn flakes. Sprinkle on top.
4. Bake 30 minutes at 325 degrees.

After discussing the principles behind an aesthetic experience, my 480r class went outside and created a situation where we might be able to have an aesthetic experience. We originally wanted to put the sand on a pedestal on the middle of BYU's quad, but the gallery director explained that the BYU grounds are outside of his jurisdiction. So, we put the sand on the ground in a pile and watched people walking by.  read more »

Rebecca spent most of this week programming and finishing her project at the last possible minute. It was especially tricky because she had mutual on Wednesday evening. For mutual, they did a "cultural heritage" night and each girl brought in something that related to thier cultural heritage. Rebecca decided to bring in a buttercreme cake and talk about Germany. The cake was a huge success (one of the girls wanted the recipe) and I only got a piece by luck.  read more »

This is the third stage in this series of paintings. Some new paintings. Karl let me borrow his projector and I used some of the 3D characters I built in Swift 3D. I also introduced some images from airline safety cards. I think those images get more to the root of where these ideas came from.  read more »

Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as theprotective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. Weinvestigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a samplegroup of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average allhelmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions(either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from thecranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatlyamplified.  read more »

I have been told by friends and friends of Mckell Brockbank that they would like to see the place where he died. I have tried in the past to capture the beauty of the place, but never been able to do it justice (or even finish the project). This trip, however, was the 5th year anniversary of his death. I felt like if Mac were alive today, he would have filmed this place many times over. So I decided to do what was most obvious: just film it as it is.  read more »

While in Florence, Oregon this year, I had planned to do some site specific art. However, I have learned that a site which has as much emotional connection in a certain way to me as does Florence makes it very difficult to think of the site in any other way. Florence is a place of contemplative thought and mourning for me, making "art" difficult.  read more »

New version of flock just came out and they updated some features on their blogger. I'm not sure what else they have updated, but this thing is really working great! Heads up to all of you out there.  read more »

It's amazing how just one short weekend can set you back so far in school/work. I think it's a combination of not working on homework and work projects for 3 days, plus falling behind on sleep due to 2 15 hour drives. At any rate, one of my professors on Tuesday asked me how I was doing (since I got to the classroom a few minutes early and he likes to chit-chat with the early birds), and I replied that I was tired. He didn't think I should be tired because "you got an extra hour of sleep, didn't you?" Ha. Ha. Very funny.  read more »