Staff Spotlight: Meet Don Undeen
- Name, job title, and location: Don Undeen, manager of the Maker Hub and adjunct faculty, 1st floor of Lau.
- What do you do—in 10 words or less? I help people turn ideas into reality.
- Where are you from? I was born in Urbana, Illinois, raised in Gainesville, Florida, and lived in Brooklyn for 15 years before moving to D.C. five years ago.
- How do you like to spend your weekends? Half the time I'm up in Brooklyn visiting my spouse. When I'm in D.C. on the weekends I like thrifting, karaoke, and working on personal projects in the Maker Hub.
- What are you reading/watching/listening to/learning right now? I just finished reading This is How You Lose the Time War, a post-singularity time-traveling romance novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Music-wise, I've been grooving to Swamp Dogg, Baxter Dury, IDLES, and John Grant. On TV, the best thing I've binged lately is Counterpart, a sci-fi thriller about parallel worlds set in Berlin (J.K. Simmons is amazing). The "hidden gem" movie I've been recommending to people lately is The Babysitter and its sequel The Babysitter: Killer Queen, which are surprisingly great teen comedy-horror flicks.
- If you had to live in a different time period, when would you pick and why? The cretaceous, just to mess up the fossil record.
- What is your favorite thing about spring? My birthday! It's April 19th, so it’s often the first spring party of the season.
- Is there anything from the past you wish would come back into fashion? Monocles!
- What's your favorite thing that you've made? Tough call! I'm pretty fond of my 35mm slide lamps. But the QR Code smart watch face (it's a QR code on your watch that changes every minute, and you scan your watch with your phone to tell the time) was fun too. In general my favorite thing is whatever I made most recently.
- If you didn’t work in your current field, what would you be doing? Not sure—maybe a secret agent?
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - 14:05