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
/2018
- 05.04.18 Rather pleading ramped mesh manipulation
- 05.04.18 This book changed my coding for the better
Apart from a night school course in learning Pascal, I’ve never done any formal training in programming. Whilst being self taught is great …
- 04.04.18 Design as a reactive system
- 03.04.18 Playful
- 03.04.18 Work-in-progress
- 02.04.18 My favourite portable fountain pen
This is the pen I carry with me everyday — the Midori Traveller’s Company Brass Fountain Pen. Closed it’s 10cm in length so fits nicely in …
- 30.03.18 National Pencil Day
Here’s three of my faves.
- 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 Further iterations being made for new product exploration
- 28.03.18 Bit of a HR Giger thing going on here
- 28.03.18 Noisy mouse trails
Exported from Processing using Toxiclibs and then rendered in Fusion.
- 28.03.18 Noisy Voxel trails
- 27.03.18 3D trails not quite working correctly yet
- 26.03.18 John Maeda — Design by Numbers
A book that really pushed forward the idea of designing with code to create new forms. A classic.
- 24.03.18 Tick Tick
- 23.03.18 Just six of the 500 Japanese stamps I got off EBay
- 23.03.18 The Best Pencil Sharpener
Mentioned over the years in more than one of my talks, this is the KUM Automatic Long Point sharpener. It is without doubt the best …
- 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 …
- 21.03.18 The best ruler
As many of you will know I’m a bit of a stationery geek with draws full of pencils, pens, paper and of course rulers. When it comes to a …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 19.03.18 Tangerine
- 12.03.18 Test output for Form & Code Workshop later this week
- 12.03.18 Working on more examples for my Form and Code workshop @projectunitx this …
- 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 …
- 06.03.18 12345678910,11,12!