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
- lrb
- 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
/2010
- 20.12.10 Use Dropbox to print to a Pogo from an iPhone automatically.
This has come out of a little project I'm currently working on that I thought was pretty handy. I've had a Polaroid Pogo printer for a …
- 02.12.10 Flickr set plugin for Indexhibit
I've made a simple little plugin for anyone using Indexhibit which will display any Flickr set of your choosing from your Flickr account. …
- 27.10.10 Why the next version of Accidental News Explorer won't be full of new features.
When I created The Accidental News Explorer I made it mainly for myself. I wanted an app to help me discover new things to read in a way …
- 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 …
- 28.08.10 My take on last night's @layertennis match with @joshuadavis
For only the second time, last night I had the honour of taking part in a Layer Tennis match, this time against the wonderful Joshua Davis. …
- 24.08.10 Creativity Abhors a Vacuum
We all have egos. The act of creating something from nothing is in itself an egotistical thing. But over the years I've learned that no …
- 03.08.10 This is why we get up in the morning
It's your shelf space; you decide what goes on your shelves.
- 19.07.10 Flash: it's not you, it's me.
I've had a long standing love affair with Flash – it's been my tool of choice for making things, experimenting with ideas and …
- 08.07.10 How many people have you upset today?
We (@mnwork) get lots of lovely emails about us and our work – which is of course very nice indeed. But we also get the occasional piece of …
- 08.07.10 Frank Gehry: be an expert in your work
"Nobody else is an expert in your work"
- 02.07.10 Web designers, stop looking at web design
The other day I was adding some podcasts to the wonderful huffduffer, a service that allows you queue podcasts up for listening later. I …
- 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 …
- 22.04.10 Flash as an attitude not a platform
Many years ago, when I was in a mind numbing job working in a factory, I did a night school course in Pascal programming. I'd grown up …
- 18.03.10 A hashtag summary of mine and @katiemaymanc's trip to #sxsw
sunshine #rodriguez #penistrauma #alwayslosingmyhotelkey #coudalappearslikemagic #friends #wafflesshapedliketexas #newfriends …
- 28.01.10 iPad: it's all about the context
Like I'm sure many people yesterday, I felt a little bit underwhelmed by the iPad announcment. You could hear the resounding "it's just a …