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20.06.23 Creating Thumbnails of Videos with FFmpeg and Automator
Just a quick one, but wanted to make a note of this very handy FFmpeg script. For a project I'm currently working on I wanted to quickly…
07.06.23 Converting a gif to a video with FFMPEG
This is just a quick one to add to my other ffmpeg workflows. I wanted to quickly convert a gif to video so it could be posted on Instagram…
01.05.23 Interesting things often happen at the edges.
Interesting things often happen at the edges.
01.05.23 One of the many work-in-progress things sitting on my hard drive.
One of the many work-in-progress things sitting on my hard drive.
16.04.23 That Was The Week That Was – 16th April 2023
The focus this week was all about Barcelona and setting up for the upcoming Digital Impact show. The 3D printed sculptures had arrived the…
04.12.22 That Was The Week That Was — 4th December 2022
Lots of sonic explorations right now for an ongoing project for release in the New Year. All these are from the cutting room. Fun…
13.11.22 That Was The Week That Was — 13th November 2022
Been exploring mathematical forms this week with added repeats and recursion. Really like the wooden forms which is probably influenced by…
16.10.22 That Was The Week That Was — 16th October 2022
They say travel broadens the mind and I've been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to have my mind expanded and visit many places…
25.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 25th September 2022
This week started with a drop on NiftyGateway for the forthcoming book CryptoArt Begins, created by NFT Magazine and edited by Elenora…
18.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 18th September 2022
This week I had two priorities: finish the work for the IN TOUCH group show curated by VerticalCrypto and Anika Meier and also make good…
04.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 4th September 2022
Pause.
29.08.22 That Was The Week That Was — 29th August 2022
After over a year of discussions against the background of COVID outbreaks, myself and Neal Gallery in Beijing have marked December 2022 as…
21.08.22 That Was The Week That Was – 21st August 2022
Operator – Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti – are two of my favourite artists; their work is brilliant, engaging, challenging and always thought pro…
15.08.22 That Was The Week That Was – 14th August 2022
It's been a tough week in many ways. I generally don't talk about personal things on my blog but the week has been dominated by elderly…
17.01.22 Deleting all but the largest connected mesh in Houdini
How do you keep the largest connected mesh / primitive in Houdini and delete all the smaller, unconnected primitives? This was something I…
27.03.21 The Dawesome Robots and Space Toy Collection
From a young age I've always loved science-fiction and especially robots, first brought on after seeing Forbidden Planet for the first…
12.02.21 Arcade Machine Dreams
Arcade Machine Dreams is my second collection on NiftyGateway and is very much an ode to the video games I loved as a teenager. Growing up…
06.12.20 Creating a Custom Mantra Renderer Preset in Houdini
Over the years I've always tried to make some of the more utilitarian processes as efficient as possible, so I can spend more time creating…
06.12.20 That Was The Week That Was – 6th December 2020
This week was all about the release of a dream project I had been working on for some weeks. Back in July, Jim Coudal, co-founder,…
30.11.20 A Technique to Reveal Points Over Time in Houdini
I recently had a need to reveal a series of points over time, but in a random way. There's no doubt a myriad of ways to do this in Houdini,…
29.11.20 That Was The Week That Was – 29th November 2020
This week I found myself filled with equal parts excitement and nervousness. On the Wednesday was my debut drop on NiftyGateway – an NFT A…
22.11.20 That Was The Week That Was – 22nd November 2020
After buying a Beomaster 1900 from Ebay to replace my Beomaster 1500, I realised a few days later that several of the bulbs – the ones for b…
24.08.20 That Was The Week That Was – 24th August 2020
The majority of my time this week was spent working on my third commission from Trend Micro. The majority of the scenes are now rendered,…
16.08.20 That Was The Week That Was – 16th August 2020
I've always been a fan of mechanical keyboards, my absolute favorite being the Apple II extended. Yet it's a pain to use with modern…
09.08.20 That Was The Week That Was – 9th August 2020
For twelve years my 2nd generation Drobo has been my main archive drive, with 16TB of data whirring away under my desk, storing all my…
02.08.20 That Was The Week That Was – 2nd August 2020
For the second year in a row I found out this week my work Black Mamba's Revenge had been long listed for the prestigious Lumen art and…
26.07.20 That Was The Week That Was – 26th July 2020
This week I had a call with a dear friend of mine, who's asked for my assistance on a very exciting project, involving making potentially…
19.07.20 That Was The Week That Was — 19th July 2020
This was the week my site, and a few sites I host, totally blew up, and not in good way. It started with a text from a restaurant owning…
12.07.20 That Was The Week That Was – 12th July 2020
I have a little device sat on my desk which lights up when I'm uploading uploading updates to my site via the site repo. I built it myself…
05.07.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th July 2020
A new book arrived in the form of Genetic Algorithms and Machine Learning for Programmers. Much of my work these days looks at using such…