If you miss Henry, read Haruki Murakami and play video games (which I admit might be a small subset) you are in for a treat because Henry makes an appearance in the game MEMORANDA. Memoranda is a point and click game with very simple mechanics that is based on Murakami’s[…]
Four years later and it still seems barely credible. Personally I am amazed how life goes on which such obstinate normalcy. Henry’s friends, brothers and sister get older, the world turns, seasons pass, new art, books, movies and games come into being which he will never see, almost as if[…]
On September 30th, 2016 Carnegie Mellon’s BXA Program hosted the annual showcase of the Henry Armero Awards for Inclusive Creativity. During the evening the award winners presented the projects they have been working on at the Miller Gallery on campus. It was a thrill to enjoy the hugely varied but[…]
The Sentient Street – Audrey Banks, BFA, Art The Sentient Street is a public art installation and performance in which a hundred objects in a public space are inhabited by individual personas that interact with the general public. By layering a fantastical anthropomorphized world of sentient objects over mundane environments,[…]
Almost exactly four years ago Henry and his friends Alex Hofer and Tyler Chapin, all high achieving physics and computer science prodigies, freshmen at Carnegie Mellon University, missed the bus home to New York from Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving. The official story was that the bus from campus took too[…]
Back in 2008 Henry and I went on a trip to Europe during February break. He was a sullen 14 year old freshman at Greenwich High School, probably bemused at spending a week traveling around with his father. The primary purpose of the trip was to pack up our[…]
Of course, Henry didn’t make it to graduation. But this May many of his friends at Carnegie Mellon did and during the ceremony Stephanie Murray, Director of the BXA progam which Henry was part of, remembered him during her speech. Thank you , Stephanie. You can watch it below.[…]
This year the award was shared by three projects: DRACULA & DRACULA – Lindsay Cavallo, Anna Failla, Samantha Riordan Dracula & Dracula is an upcoming web series about the real life struggles of two everyday vampires and their monster friends. The series is a fully improvised vlog (vampire blog) starring[…]
Henry could spin a good yarn, even when he was little (see his first grade “My Skiing Day” on this site). The beneficiaries were most often his friends, occasionally his parents, whom he would regale with long-winded adventures usually culled from the latest video game or tv show. But he[…]
Perhaps we can laugh today when we remember him…… Freshman Orientation, Carnegie Mellon, 2011.
