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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- 20.03.18 Saying Thank You
Whenever I finish a client piece of work I take time to say thank you by popping something into the post. Often it’s a physical souvenir …
- 19.03.18 Post from Instagram to Kirby
I'm a big fan of the IndieWeb movement and the idea of publishing your content to a place you own and control rather than exclusively on …
- 10.03.18 Goodbye XCode, Hello Vim and OpenFrameworks
Since moving to Vim over a year ago for all my coding, using another code editor is always a chore. Such is the case using Xcode when …
- 08.03.18 Dawesome Toolkit Update 0.9
A small update to the Dawesome Toolkit, my library for Processing. It's sometimes handy to be able to get a list of the colours your …
- 07.03.18 Crazy-Fast Finding and Opening Files on the Command Line
It's usually always the case that I have a terminal session open somewhere on my Mac — either managing a Git repo, working with a Nodejs …
- 05.03.18 Quicker Git with Handy Bash Functions
In the course of a typical day I'll write a lot of Git commits, typing out git commit -a -m 'a message' and then doing a git push again and …
- 05.03.18 Thank You Sinclair ZX81
On the 5th March 1981 a small home computer was released that, without exaggeration, changed my life. The Sinclair ZX81, retailing for …
- 02.03.18 Back your sh*t up!
This work that we all make — these little fragments of digital ephemera — well, I think it's important. Over the years that work builds up …
- 24.02.18 Creating ctags for Processing .pde files for use in Vim
Ctags generate a file of language objects — such as method names and vars — so they can then be used and located inside a text editor such …
- 20.02.18 Putting 'stupid' ideas into the world
I've always been a great believer in putting ideas out into the world to represent who you are what you're about. It's something I do a lot …
- 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 …
- 15.02.18 An introduction to the Dawesome Toolkit — my library for Processing
The Dawesome Toolkit is a library for Processing that I originally made for myself, so I could use bits of code I always use in my projects …
- 11.02.18 Make it Shine: Rendering 3D Objects Made in Processing
For a few years now I've been creating physical objects from data — using Processing to essentially terraform an object such as a sphere, …
- 07.02.18 Using a restaurant style Tab Grabber as a todo list
This is something I’ve been doing for over a year now. Rather than write down my daily task list in a journal or in some web based system, …
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the CP5 …
- 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 …
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
. Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the …
- 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 …
- 30.01.18 Strangelove. Or how I stopped worrying how web design is meant to be and got …
brendandawes.com has been online since 2000. Over that time it’s been through various incarnations, from purely Flash based (gasp) to …
- 24.01.18 The thing is, Web Design doesn’t have to be about grids. Web Design is not a …
- 21.01.18 Might revisit this code I wrote to display a time based map of all my work. …
- 01.12.17 Same model as before but this time uses the colour information saved as part of …
- 28.11.17 After several iterations, happy with the enclosure for Plastic Player II. Album …
- 18.11.17 Plastic Player v2 all wired up. Now for assembly.
- 17.10.17 Another playful type render, this time using sine wave to position elements.
- 21.02.17 When you find yourself writing commits like this it's time to walk away for a …
- 21.12.16 Now with added light up backlight action.
- 27.11.16 Further development of my NFC based music player now with mini album covers!
- 26.11.16 So here we go. Rough prototype NFC based physical music controller. Underworld …
- 25.11.16 Started on my weekend project, hardware controller for my Spotify raspberry PI …