Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Backup
- Bash
- 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
- robots
- ThisisHCD
- tmux
- Tools
- touchdesigner
- Transferwise
- Travel
- tw3
- tx3
- Ultisnips
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- Everything
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- 10.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 10th May 2020
Love the work of Jacqueline Casey, especially all the posters she did when at MIT. Stunning work. The book of her posters is pretty hard to…
- 03.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2020
During the sixth week of lockdown I explored some sound reactive work in Houdini. I'd played around with this type of stuff before, and…
- 26.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th April 2020
Lusted over the stationery made by Amorial. Like this quote from Freud about consideration when writing a letter: I consider it a good…
- 19.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 19th April 2020
Saw these Masuya Monakai notebooks, but so far have resisted clicking the add to cart button. Talking of notebooks, this piece in Fast…
- 12.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 12th April 2020
Sad to see both Computer Arts and Net Mag closing. Whilst I haven't bought it for a long time, in the early part of my career they were…
- 05.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th April 2020
During the second week of lock down, I started on a new idea, taking the colours from the final fight scene in Kill Bill Vol One and…
- 29.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 29th March 2020
First week of full lock-down following the announcement on the Monday night. Watching the address from Boris Johnson was certainly "a…
- 22.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd March 2020
Last weekend we were meant to be in Paris, but of course we had to cancel due to COVID-19. We lost pretty much all our money, with the…
- 15.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 15th March 2020
Whilst sequences were rendering for this client video piece in 4K, we managed to steal away a few hours at the park — making sure to keep o…
- 08.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 8th March 2020
This week I've been working towards delivery of the static images for my new Trend Micro commission. Last week I had gone too hard on brand…
- 01.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 1st March 2020
Notch is something I've been meaning to get into, ever since my friend Marc Theile mentioned it to me last year. As a fan of node based…
- 24.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 24th February 2020
Over the year's my desk has been host to many different notebooks, from the default Moleskine, to a super-posh Smythson Soho I picked up in…
- 16.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 16th February 2020
I really dislike Slack. Had to use it a few times and discovered it's not for me. I find it a huge distraction to actually getting work…
- 09.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 9th February 2020
A beautiful book arrived in the post this week from Christopher Grünberger. Analog Algorithm — Source Related Grid Systems, is a kind of gr…
- 03.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 2nd February 2020
This week I started on a new client piece of work — something quite different to the things I've been doing of late, seeing me back using P…
- 26.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th January 2020
With a new commercial piece of work starting next week, which will see me working in Processing, my thoughts turned to having to switch…
- 20.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 19th January 2020
This week I did something I've been meaning to do for a long time — I went to the cinema on my own, in the day time. For many, the cinema i…
- 12.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 12th January 2020
The Entagma Houdini tutorials are always really high quality, so I wasn't surprised to see just how good this series of videos were…
- 05.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th January 2020
Every now and then I like to go back and revisit an experiment I've been playing with, to see if I can dig down further, to see what might…
- 29.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 29th December 2019
My last weekly post of 2019. Maybe I will do one of those year in review things. Maybe I won't. This week has obviously been taken up with…
- 22.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd December 2019
The Dubai large screen visualisation enquiry I had last week has now been moved back to a little later in the New Year, so the pressure is…
- 15.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th December 2019
It seems next year the theme is one of collaboration if this week's phone conversations is anything to go by. The last few weeks have been…
- 09.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 8th December 2019
After getting back from OFFF Sevilla late on Sunday, the next few days consisted of phone calls with some exciting new collaborators,…
- 01.12.19 That Was The Week That Was — 1st December 2019
I started to drill down into my Code in your Pocket print project. As I began to play with the code I realised some of the iterations began…
- 24.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 24th November 2019
On Thursday I travelled to Glasgow to speak at the inaugural Silicon Swalley — an event organised by Filament PD, who I haven't seen for a f…
- 17.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 17th November 2019
My latest client work was delivered at the beginning of the week. I decided to re-render one of the images as when looking at it later that…
- 10.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 10th November 2019
I started the week commissioning a new screen print from Harvey Lloyd Screens, based on my process sketch — something that is often the m…
- 03.11.19 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd November 2019
This week I made the decision to move my Produced for Use products to an Amazon Warehouse, so Amazon could not only fulfill orders, but…
- 27.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 27th October 2019
After several days of wrangling with colours for the latest piece of work, liking something then a few hours later realising it was…
- 20.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 20th October 2019
This latest work is almost done, except now I'm trying to wrestle with these new colours that need to be incorporated somehow. My initial…