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01.09.19 What the Ack! Multi-file Find and Replace with Vim and Ack
Occasionally it's handy to be able to do a find and replace across multiple files, or even insert something new across many files. Using …
30.08.19 The Path of Least Resistance: Using Vim Templates
My Kirby powered website uses a few different templates depending on the type of content. I have one for detailing a project, one for news, …
25.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — 25th August 2019
My free copy of Vitsoe Voice arrived, complete with Gary Hustwit on the cover. Inside he talked about his latest film, Rams, about the …
21.08.19 Work-in-progress
Everything starts with a simple sketch. The act of scribbling things is directly connected, I believe, to how thoughts are formed, starting …
18.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — August 18th 2019
As Getz / Gilberto dominated the turntable this week, I continued to send out the Manifesto for Myself prints, only now the print arrives …
14.08.19 Adobe Alternatives
No longer will you find Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator on any of the Macs I use. You will find Premiere but that's only kept around in case …
11.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — August 11th 2019
My new print — Manifesto for Myself — arrived on the Tuesday from Harvey Lloyd Screens and looked fantastic. It's an A5 two colour screen …
09.08.19 Two Tortillas
Last night myself and Lisa were watching the fourth episode of Remarkable Places to Eat, a BBC series with First Dates' Fred Sirieix, which …
06.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — 4th August 2019
The Entagma Houdini tutorials on Vimeo have been a great resource for my Houdini learnigs, and so I thought it was about time to stump up …
28.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 28th July 2019
At the beginning of the week I put together the first round of images for this latest client work. These were very much work in progress — …
28.07.19 Creating small experiments
One of the things I do whenever I have some downtime is explore or learn a new technique and then save that out so I may use it in the …
21.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 21st July 2019
I started in earnest on a new client commission — creating four images using data, for a US based client. As usual everything starts out …
14.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 14th July 2019
This week saw Lisa and myself take an impromptu break to the city of Copenhagen. We're both fans of Danish design so we were both looking …
07.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 7th July 2019
This week I was mainly working in TouchDesigner, getting stuff finished for an exciting meeting happening the following week. One of the …
02.07.19 Modifying TouchDesigner Table DATs
This drove me a little crazy for a good hour, so I thought I'd make a note of this for myself and maybe for others. I had a table DAT in …
01.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 30th June 2019
Even though I had just signed the contract for my next project, there was still a few things to fall into place before I could actually …
24.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 23rd June 2019
It felt like I had put a sign across my website to say "open for business", as this week seemed to be all about new work enquiries, so …
19.06.19 Rename a local and remote branch in git
Rename a local and remote branch in git https://multiplestates.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/rename-a-local-and-remote-branch-in-git/ Often …
18.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 16th June 2019
This week I started on a new client project — just s short three week one, but still very fun to be involved with. It's for energy supplier …
09.06.19 Using Vex to automatically create groups of points from CSV data in Houdini
In my continuing adventures with Houdini I was playing around with this CSV file containing number of kills by James Bond in Bond movies — …
09.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 9th June 2019
Headed to Heidelberg on the Tuesday as I was speaking at a Trend Micro Partner Talk event the next morning. I was giving the keynote as …
03.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 2nd June 2019
This week was pretty laid back as I'm waiting on a contract to come through for a new piece of work which I'm excited to get going on. To …
31.05.19 Electronic City
More playing with these noise generated patterns, this time a bit of modulo action to create some striping, plus grouping of materials.
29.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 29th May 2019
This week I was focussed on getting a piece of work completed for an upcoming talk in Germany for Trend Micro. I had been given the …
21.05.19 Work-in-progress
For a client thing, using Processing to construct a csv file from provided data then importing that csv into Houdini. Quite a nice …
20.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 19th May 2019
A week of travel. Firstly Dusseldorf for Beyond Tellerrand for a few days then back for less than 24 hours before heading to Moscow for …
13.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 12th May 2019
After the bank holiday on the Monday I travelled up to Edinburgh to apply for my Russian Visa so I could make my trip to OFFF Moscow the …
11.05.19 Permission to Write Stuff
One of my favourite ever pieces of tech was the original Flip camera. It came out at a time when the only way to shoot video was to dust …
06.05.19 Ultisnips snippet to quickly create Markdown formatted links using content from …
When I'm writing a blog post or putting together some other article on my site, I often need to create links to content on the web. I do …
28.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 28th April 2019
The week started out on a sad note when John Davey announced he was ending the Reasons festival which happens in Brighton each year. I …