Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
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- Automator
- Axidraw
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- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- FOTB
- Flocking
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
- fzf
- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
- 15.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th March 2026
We’re currently experiencing some issues setting up the Google Meet call, so we’ll be hosting the meeting on our platform, Riverside …
- 08.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th March 2026
This week I've been deep in the weeds as I work on expanding some of the systems I use especially in respect of machine-learning. In the …
- 01.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st March 2026
"What is the elementary particle of sudden understanding? It is the clariton. Any scientist will recognise the “Aha!” moment when this …
- 22.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd February 2026
"World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The …
- 15.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th February 2026
Lots of type experiments this week, created in Houdini and also Touch Designer. In Houdini the minpos() method is great for constraining …
- 08.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th February 2026
This week started with a trip down to London for a meeting with Mila Askarova, owner of Gazelli Art House, who've been representing me for …
- 01.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st February 2026
"Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a …
- 25.01.26 That Was The Week That Was – 25th January 2026
Started the week off in a nice way with news that Cinema Redux: Metropolis had been acquired by a collector through Gazelli Art House. …
- 18.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 18th January 2026
Somehow I had managed to completely miss that a new version of Touch Designer was released in October last year, complete with a new …
- 11.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 11th January 2026
Whilst there was much noise above where I worked in the studio at home — with the roofers putting a new roof on the house — it was still …
- 18.12.25 Create Centre Points for Primitives in TouchDesigner
Just putting this here as it may come in handy for others. I saw someone asking how to do this on the TouchDesigner forum, how to find the …
- 30.11.25 That Was The Week That Was – 30th November 2025
This week I received a quote to overhaul and repair my 1966 Bulova Accutron Spaceview watch which I've owned since 2021. The quote arrived …
- 23.11.25 That Was The Week That Was — 23rd November 2025
Following an email from David Connor, Tutor for Architecture + Design at the University of Salford, I found myself on a train heading to …
- 16.11.25 That Was The Week That Was – 16th November 2025
This week saw me travel to New York for the third time this year. During the short three night trip myself and Gary Hustwit were revealing …
- 21.09.25 That Was The Week That Was – 21st September 2025
"You're very calm." One of the two sisters, and the one who wasn't as stressed as the other, said this to me as I sat on a bench at Leeds …
- 30.08.25 That Was The Week That Was – 30th August 2025
Bugs and Errors At the beginning of the week I noticed my site was peppered with errors and bugs. The latest version of PHP had thrown up …
- 24.07.25 Look again at the scraps on the cutting room floor
Look again at the scraps on the cutting room floor. This image was a throwaway remnant of a deeper process. Yet it appeals to me as a thing …
- 19.07.25 Eventually the blank must be filled in totally
Eventually the blank must be filled in totally.
- 13.07.25 Colossal Machine
Colossal Machine.
- 09.07.25 Leave space in your work for the unexpected to grow
Leave space in your work for the unexpected to grow.
- 06.07.25 “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, …
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me’.” — Virginia Woolf.
- 04.07.25 Inner biology
Inner biology.
- 02.07.25 Strange circuits
Strange circuits.
- 28.06.25 One of the many outputs from the generative and recursive system I’m currently …
One of the many outputs from the generative and recursive system I’m currently developing.
- 26.06.25 A thousand capacities
A thousand capacities.
- 24.06.25 Self recursion
Self recursion. Having a lot of fun exploring some generative systems and processes for an upcoming group show in London later this year.
- 22.06.25 Iteration eleven
Iteration eleven.
- 26.05.25 constructione ornamentum
- 23.05.25 There was a time when I used to a lot of talks in a year
There was a time when I used to a lot of talks in a year. Now I’ve cut that down to just a few, some years none at all. I still always …