Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- hitfilm
- houdini
- IFTTT
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- Input
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- iOS
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- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
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- making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- photoshop
- Plain Text
- Process
- Processing
- robots
- ThisisHCD
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- Ultisnips
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- Everything
/2019
- 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 — t…
- 25.07.19 Tapering Curves and Lines in Houdini
A quick screen cast on how to control the width of a line or a curve over its length, using a B-Spline curve interface. Also includes a tip…
- 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 u…
- 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…
- 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 B…
- 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 — s…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 05.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 5th May 2019
Due to an invitation I received on the previous Friday, on the Tuesday I found myself sat in the Russian Visa Centre, documents in hand…
- 04.05.19 Writing Terminal Output to a File
Whenever I have an installation running remotely at a physical location, I often need to monitor the state of that installation. I use a…
- 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…
- 24.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 21st April 2019
This week saw me travel to San Francisco for Smashing Conference. I couldn't let anyone know I was travelling there as I was the so called…
- 22.04.19 Memories of Flash on the Beach
I received news today that John Davey has decided to end the Reasons.to conferences which happened in Brighton (and London). It's sad to…
- 19.04.19 My Conference Code of Conduct
Many conferences now have a codes of conduct. So in this same spirit I thought I would write the code of conduct for ME that I can pass to…
- 15.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 14th April 2019
I've been continuing to work on Project X in TouchDesigner and after some feedback from my fellow collaborator I've got some more crafting…
- 10.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 7th April 2019
Whilst waiting in a car park I was checking Instagram when I saw that little red dot appear in the top right corner — the one that says you h…
- 02.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 31st March 2019
There seemed to be much debate this week about whether speaking at conferences is a waste of time or not. I watched from the sidelines as…
- 29.03.19 A simple fade in and out technique with TouchDesigner
I was recently working on a project in TouchDesigner in which I needed to fade in and out background music when a voiceover came on. I…
- 26.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 24th March 2019
Monday saw me travel to Manchester to give a little talk at PrintCity, based at MMU. It's been a while since I took the early morning train…