Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3d
- ack
- 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
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
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- 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.
- 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) …
- 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 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 05.06.18 Storing and Organising Physical Things with Sortly
Much of my work these days is creating physical installations, often using various components — be they digital or analogue — that I have …
- 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 — …
- 21.05.18 Simple Header File Switching in Vim
I've recently been working on a project in OpenFrameworks which uses .cpp and their associated header (.h) files. I wanted to find a way to …
- 21.05.18 My Fave Vim Colour Scheme
Colour schemes in coding IDEs are a very personal thing. For a long time I favoured Gruvbox, which I found really pleasant to work with. …
- 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 …
- 16.05.18 Sync Vim Configuration using Dropbox
My day-to-day coding machine is my iMac which over the years I've setup with my perfect (for me) Vim configuration. When I'm out on the …
- 16.05.18 Moment of Creation — Git Repo Visualisation in Physical Form
This is using the same data as yesterday but I’ve changed the chamfer to not be as severe. I like how you can see lots of activity then …
- 09.05.18 Brian Eno: Stop Being Frightened
I loved every moment of this.
- 09.04.18 The Point of Making Pointless Things
If you've ever been to one of my talks you may have heard me say "put work into the world which deserves to exist." Whilst I'm very much …
- 07.04.18 Typographic Mesh Manipulation
Continuing to to explore my mesh transformation sketches. This time type is mapped across the mesh and then further transformed with some …
- 07.04.18 Typographic Mesh Manipulation
Continuing to to explore my mesh transformation sketches. This time type is mapped across the mesh and then further transformed with some …
- 30.03.18 I do love these stickers I had made for my Now Boarding series
- 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 …
- 28.03.18 Noisy mouse trails
Exported from Processing using Toxiclibs and then rendered in Fusion.
- 22.03.18 Joining Future Everything Board
I'm honored to announce that I've joined the board of Future Everything. Since 1995 Future Everything has been exploring the meeting point …
- 20.03.18 Eye Health and Working with Screens
For many years now I've been suffering from quite chronic dry eyes, brought about through working with screens, my lack of blinking (you …