Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Axidraw
- Backup
- Bash
- Boids
- Bookmark
- Books
- Cncserver
- Design
- 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
/2018
- 13.09.18 The visible hand within the work
I love this meringue I bought in a local bakery. I love it because, well, I love meringue, but also because by looking at its form I can …
- 24.08.18 The only mechanical pencil I allow myself to own
I’m not a fan of mechanical pencils as I think they largely take away the joy of using a pencil. However I recently made an exception when …
- 22.08.18 Joy and Anger
Work-in-progress
- 22.08.18 Fear
Work-in-progress.
- 22.08.18 Finding distractions
The last few days — in between working on projects — I’ve found myself just staring at the screen, pointlessly browsing Twitter, closing …
- 20.08.18 Video-to-Video Synthesis
Video-to-Video Synthesis The quality of this stuff is getting pretty crazy now.
- 18.08.18 Working on packaging
- 18.08.18 Experimental music notation resources
Experimental music notation resources There’s always new ways to look at things.
- 16.08.18 Dieline Creator
Dieline Creator Really useful resource for creating packaging dielines, letting you input your own settings and then download (for a fee) …
- 16.08.18 Die Line Creator
Die Line Creator s://boxshot.com/dielines/ Really useful set of dielines for packaging that you can customise. Costs $9.99 to download a …
- 15.08.18 Font of the Month Club
Font of the Month Club I’m now in my second year of being a member of David Jonathan Ross’ Font of the Month club and the beginning of each …
- 15.08.18 Carbon
Carbon Carbon – great way to share code screenshots.
- 11.08.18 Using IBM Watson with Processing
Recently I've been working on a project in which I needed to analyse large amounts of text for sentiment and other such things. In the past …
- 02.08.18 Vim File Navigation and Bookmarking with NETRW
When I first started using Vim I read a lot about how I should install a plugin called NerdTree to enable a project drawer type file …
- 01.08.18 Musical notation from John Cage
I have to confess I’m not a fan of John Cage’s solo work but I love how he wrote down his compositions. Whilst there is a well used grammar …
- 01.08.18 Second build of my new system for Fadecandy driven LED installations done
This can drive 1024 LEDs through 16 XLR connections. Inside is a 5v 40a PSU, two Fadecandy‘s and a slimline USB hub. This is a smaller …
- 31.07.18 There’s something very satisfying doing repetitive tasks, just sitting down and …
Eight done, eight more XLR cables to go.
- 25.07.18 Iterations
Lots of prototyping going on right now to try and get this new thing where I want it to be. Getting there.
- 24.07.18 Automatic Creation of .gitignore using the Command Line and Vim
I recently chanced upon a great little service called gitignore.io which provides an easy way to make .gitignore files for pretty much any …
- 23.07.18 Interactions
- 22.07.18 My File Naming Convention
Over the years I've had a pretty loose approach to naming files. When you've got deadlines often times you're not concerned with how a file …
- 15.07.18 Less, but Better
Recently I've noticed something with my work output — year on year I'm making less. When I first started my site almost twenty years ago, I …
- 27.06.18 Carefully Everywhere
- 21.06.18 Late night Formboxing
- 19.06.18 Transitions
- 18.06.18 From the archive: Chomsky Space
I took some Noam Chomsky sound bites and put them into a 3D interface. The idea was encourage exploration through sound and typography, …
- 13.06.18 Prototype #2
Better but lots of voids and I cracked it getting it out the mold. Forward!
- 13.06.18 Forming
- 13.06.18 First concrete cast made with a form from the @teammayku FormBox
Mixture wasn’t right and the release agent didn’t work as expected, but it’s a start.
- 10.06.18 There’s something very satisfying seeing a notebook become worn, dog eared and …
Each mark is a scar from its use, a moment in its history, whether that be jotting down a phone number, a take-away food list, notes on …