Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Backup
- Bash
- Bookmark
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- Face-Tracking
- ffmpeg
- FOTB
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- fzf
- Git
- gridmarkets
- Hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- iOS
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- photoshop
- Plain Text
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- robots
- ThisisHCD
- tmux
- Tools
- touchdesigner
- Transferwise
- Travel
- tw3
- tx3
- Ultisnips
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- Everything
- 24.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 21st April 2019
This week saw me travel to San Francisco for Smashing Conference. I couldn't let anyone know I was travelling there as I was the so called…
- 22.04.19 Memories of Flash on the Beach
I received news today that John Davey has decided to end the Reasons.to conferences which happened in Brighton (and London). It's sad to…
- 22.04.19 T.S. Eliot on the artists’ mind as a test chamber.
Love this quote from T.S. Eliot about thoughts, feelings and images as particles, uniting to form a compound.
- 21.04.19 Fascinating article in The New Yorker about scouting v scoring in not just…
Fascinating article in The New Yorker about scouting v scoring in not just baseball but all aspects of life Fascinating article in The New…
- 19.04.19 My Conference Code of Conduct
Many conferences now have a codes of conduct. So in this same spirit I thought I would write the code of conduct for ME that I can pass to…
- 15.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 14th April 2019
I've been continuing to work on Project X in TouchDesigner and after some feedback from my fellow collaborator I've got some more crafting…
- 14.04.19 Deigo Monzon’s Illustrator to GCode Panel
Deigo Monzon’s Illustrator to GCode Panel Whilst Inkscape has its uses, I find it so painful to use, especially when I’m forced to use it whe…
- 10.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 7th April 2019
Whilst waiting in a car park I was checking Instagram when I saw that little red dot appear in the top right corner — the one that says you h…
- 02.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 31st March 2019
There seemed to be much debate this week about whether speaking at conferences is a waste of time or not. I watched from the sidelines as…
- 29.03.19 A simple fade in and out technique with TouchDesigner
I was recently working on a project in TouchDesigner in which I needed to fade in and out background music when a voiceover came on. I…
- 29.03.19 More frequency
- 28.03.19 There’s nothing more satisfying than when you manage to figure out something t…
Currently working on a project in TouchDesigner and needed an elegant way to fade out and fade in audio programmatically. In the end I used…
- 26.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 24th March 2019
Monday saw me travel to Manchester to give a little talk at PrintCity, based at MMU. It's been a while since I took the early morning train…
- 26.03.19 Strata
- 25.03.19 Contours
- 25.03.19 Matthew Ragan’s TouchDesigner Resources
Matthew Ragan’s TouchDesigner Resources One of my current projects sees me working in TouchDesigner. This resource from Matthew Ragan is a s…
- 21.03.19 Vents
- 17.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 17th March 2019
There seemed to be a big German theme this week. I had an email from an agency in Germany asking if I would be available to speak at an…
- 13.03.19 Flowing Dragon
#houdinifx
- 11.03.19 Molecular
- 10.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 10th March 2019
Much of the week was spent finally getting round to doing a much needed update to Kennedy, my app for capturing the now. Since iOS 12 came…
- 08.03.19 You Are Not a Tool
When I first got a job in the world of design — as a web designer with northern web design company Subnet — my main role was doing things wit…
- 05.03.19 Slow Looking at Art
Slow Looking at Art
- 02.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd March 2019
Monday I started in earnest on a title sequence for an upcoming conference — another project I'm creating in Houdini. It's based on the i…
- 01.03.19 Hail to the g
The more I dig into Vim the more I discover the power of the most simple commands and key combinations. One of those is the use of the g…
- 27.02.19 Seeking alternative rectangles
My career has largely been predicated by things emanating from glowing rectangles. Whilst I'm incredibly grateful for everything that…
- 27.02.19 Trying to improve my typing speed with Keybr
Trying to improve my typing speed with Keybr I’m a few days in to using this free service to help you improve your typing skills. It’s bea…
- 27.02.19 More interference studies
- 26.02.19 Noisy sketch
- 24.02.19 That Was The Week That Was — 24th February 2019
Monday saw me deliver work for a wonderful new client that will be rolled out during an event starting on the 4th March in California. The…