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22.04.24 Posted @withregram • @gary_hustwit What an incredible night at the UK Premiere …
Posted @withregram • @gary_hustwit What an incredible night at the UK Premiere of our live generative documentary “Eno” Saturday at the …
24.03.24 That Was The Week That Was — 24th March 2024
The week started with travelling to Copenhagen – one of my favourite cities – for CPH:DOX and the European premiere or ENO which Gary …
20.03.24 Wonderful evening last night at Gazelli Art House
Wonderful evening last night @gazelliarthouse for the Tuesday Talk with @greenberg.ira @mtakeomagruder and myself with great hosting by …
12.12.23 One of the hi lights of this year was the presentation of Persian Dreams …
One of the hi lights of this year was the presentation of Persian Dreams @artdubai. Shown here is Heroes. Inspired by The Book of Kings, or …
29.10.23 That Was The Week That Was – 29th October 2023
This week I travelled to the Venice Biennale Musica to install Nothing Can Ever Be The Same – my collaboration with documentary film maker …
11.07.23 FITC Tokyo 2016 Opening Titles
FITC Tokyo 2016 Opening Titles. Created in 2016 for the @fitc design conference. The entire work was created in code, in Processing, with …
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 …
09.04.23 That Was The Week That Was – 9th April 2023
When I was commuting to Manchester everyday – something I did for over ten years – I often bemoaned the state of the railways in the UK. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
21.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 21st June 2020
A new piece of client work appeared this week in the form of a second commission from Trend Micro. Originally this was work for an event in …
31.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 31st May 2020
Danielle Newnham published an interview with me as part of her Beyond Work series, looking at how founders and innovators have been coping …
24.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 24th May 2020
In the course of researching an approach to creating a new piece of client work, in WebGL, I searched around for something node / graph …
17.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 17th May 2020
MOPs is an open source toolkit for Houdini for motion design and is something I began to explore this week. The use of an offset ramp to …
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 …
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 rule …
14.03.20 Talk on going mouseless with Vim, Tmux, and Hotkeys
Talk on going mouseless with Vim, Tmux, and Hotkeys One of the best talks I’ve seen on the power of Vim.
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 …
03.03.20 Word of Mouth — Real Talk
Word of Mouth — Real Talk Wonderful episode of Word of Mouth about the science of conversation.
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 …
27.01.20 Matthew Walker: "Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams"
Matthew Walker: "Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams" Fascinating and disturbing talk from 2017 on how sleep effects our …
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 …
03.01.20 It's Good to Talk — How Having Video Calls With My Peers Keeps Me Sane
A few years ago Joel Gethin Lewis sent me a private message on Twitter, asking how I was and how we should have a catch-up sometime on …
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 …
12.12.19 The Art of Data — free talk @idealbarcelona 19th December in a 1000m2 stunning …
I’ll be talking about my work exploring beauty born from data.
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 …