Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- adobe
- altoids
- analog
- anamorph
- arduino
- automator
- axidraw
- backup
- bash
- boids
- bookmark
- books
- cinema
- cncserver
- code
- coltrane
- conference
- data
- dataart
- design
- dropbox
- eno
- everyday objects
- eyes
- ffmpeg
- flocking
- fotb
- fusion360
- future-everything
- fzf
- generative systems
- git
- gridmarkets
- hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- ifttt
- imperfection
- indieweb
- input
- inspiration
- installation
- inventory
- ios
- keyshot
- kirby
- leap motion
- mac
- machine learning
- making
- markdown
- memory
- misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- notes
- openframeworks
- opinion
- output
- p5js
- photoshop
- plain text
- plotter
- process
- processing
- python
- robots
- roslindale
- sound
- time
- tools
- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
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- zx81
- Everything
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- 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 …
- 20.11.18 Using Vimwiki as a simple, synced, note taking system
For many years I've been using Evernote to store notes, code snippets, found things from the web and a whole lot of other stuff. I like it, …
- 09.10.18 House of Z
House of Z s://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80200744 Fascinating documentary on the rise and fall and rise again of Zac Posen, fashion …
- 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 …
- 04.06.18 A Thank You to Processing
There are two pieces of software that have been a big part of my career: one was Flash and the other was — and continues to be — …
- 17.05.18 My Most Used Day-to-Day Vim Features
When you first starting using Vim as your default editor the amount of things to learn can be overwhelming. I've been using Vim for about a …
- 16.05.18 Deleting Thousands of Lines not Containing a Pattern with Vim
Here's a small demonstration of why I love Vim so much — editing large amounts of data such as csv and tsv files. Let's say I have a fairly …
- 28.03.18 Boiler Plate Template for Processing
When I start a new Processing project I always start from the same base template. This template features some core things that I pretty …
- 16.02.18 Tips on exporting video from Processing
Sometimes my projects involve creating HD format — or larger — videos of coded work created in Processing. There's various ways to create …
- 06.02.18 Automating movie file conversion to MP4
I’m always keen to try and automate processes I repeat a lot, so this is something I’ve done recently that I find handy for my …
- 31.01.18 Switching to Vim
Last year I made a decision to switch to Vim for all my coding and text editing. Many times before I’ve tried Vim but always ended up …
- 19.01.18 The Five C’s of Cinematography (1965) by Joseph V. Mascelli. Whilst technology …
- 01.11.13 Hatch Show Print
"We're all carving new blocks all the time, something to add, something new". Great film about the legendary Hatch Show Print who are …
- 24.08.12 An Exploration in Craft: Tanner Goods
Lovely film from Ryan Bush on Portland's Tanner Goods.
- 13.08.12 Armin Hoffman: The whole point was to do it with the minimal of means
Created for the AIGA by Dress Code, wonderful short piece on Armin Hoffman.
- 09.08.12 Code 2600 Hacker Documentary
"Everything you've ever done is recorded somewhere."
- 06.08.12 Bobby Fischer Against the World
After reading the book Bobby Fischer Goes to War a few years ago, I finally got around to watching the HBO documentary Bobby Fischer …
- 03.08.12 Stand and watch and listen: Arup's redevelopment of Kings Cross Station
"Suddenly they stop and they go, wow. And then they start to say 'how did they do this?'". Lovely film from Arup's Nigel Morris about the …
- 02.07.12 Inventor Portrait: Ralph Baer, creator of the home video game console
Wonderful, inspiring and poignant film.
- 20.04.12 The Generous Man – Remembering Hillman Curtis
I first met Hillman in 1998 during a Macromedia conference being held in Paris. I'd wondered into one of the sessions not really knowing …
- 13.03.12 The scariest public information film you've ever seen, from David Lynch
From 1991, it's a film about keeping New York city clean, but it's got all the tell-tale fingerprints of being created by David Lynch.
- 07.01.11 Some inspirational things for a Friday
It's been one of those weeks this week when I've been bumping into many wonderfully inspiring things; new things and older things. Here's a …
- 29.09.10 Links from my #fotb talk
Here's a few links for some of the things I mentioned at my FOTB session: Saul Bass on the Web www.saulbass.tv Sesame Street Pinball …
- 21.06.10 How do we "lend" our digital stuff?
Over the last year or so I've been gradually getting rid of my physical DVD collection and one-by-one ripping each film to disc. When I …