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- 16.10.22 That Was The Week That Was — 16th October 2022
They say travel broadens the mind and I've been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to have my mind expanded and visit many places …
- 25.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 25th September 2022
This week started with a drop on NiftyGateway for the forthcoming book CryptoArt Begins, created by NFT Magazine and edited by Elenora …
- 18.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 18th September 2022
This week I had two priorities: finish the work for the IN TOUCH group show curated by VerticalCrypto and Anika Meier and also make good …
- 04.09.22 That Was The Week That Was — 4th September 2022
Pause.
- 29.08.22 That Was The Week That Was — 29th August 2022
After over a year of discussions against the background of COVID outbreaks, myself and Neal Gallery in Beijing have marked December 2022 as …
- 21.08.22 That Was The Week That Was – 21st August 2022
Operator – Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti – are two of my favourite artists; their work is brilliant, engaging, challenging and always thought …
- 15.08.22 That Was The Week That Was – 14th August 2022
It's been a tough week in many ways. I generally don't talk about personal things on my blog but the week has been dominated by elderly …
- 28.02.22 How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism
How Leonora Carrington Feminized Surrealism Inspiration and research for new work.
- 17.01.22 Deleting all but the largest connected mesh in Houdini
How do you keep the largest connected mesh / primitive in Houdini and delete all the smaller, unconnected primitives? This was something I …
- 18.06.21 A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist
A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist Interesting long read about the role of AI in creativity.
- 11.06.21 Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves
Oscar Niemeyer: Brazil's king of curves Great piece on Oscar Niemeyer.
- 04.06.21 Einstein: Revolution in time and space
Einstein: Revolution in time and space Recently discovered The Forum on the BBC world service and it is full to the brim with wonderful …
- 05.05.21 Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is not just a radical kind of art. It’s a …
Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ is not just a radical kind of art. It’s a philosophical dialetheia: a contradiction that is true Goes nicely …
- 30.04.21 In Our Time – The Physics of Reality
In Our Time – The Physics of Reality Melvyn Bragg examines the attempt to reconcile Quantum Theory and classical physics.
- 27.03.21 The Dawesome Robots and Space Toy Collection
From a young age I've always loved science-fiction and especially robots, first brought on after seeing Forbidden Planet for the first …
- 08.03.21 Attack of the Vintage Toy Robots! Justin Pinchot on Japan’s Coolest Postwar …
Attack of the Vintage Toy Robots! Justin Pinchot on Japan’s Coolest Postwar Export | Collectors Weekly As a big fan of vintage robots, live …
- 12.02.21 Arcade Machine Dreams
Arcade Machine Dreams is my second collection on NiftyGateway and is very much an ode to the video games I loved as a teenager. Growing up …
- 07.02.21 茶筒の開化堂 | Kaikado Tea Caddies
茶筒の開化堂 | Kaikado Tea Caddies I first came across these last year, but I’ve only just manage to get my hands on one. We drink a pot of fresh …
- 03.02.21 Stanley Kubrick boxes
Stanley Kubrick boxes I’ve always been a sucker for wire stitched boxes, but didn’t realise the famed Kubrick box is still being made by …
- 06.12.20 Creating a Custom Mantra Renderer Preset in Houdini
Over the years I've always tried to make some of the more utilitarian processes as efficient as possible, so I can spend more time creating …
- 06.12.20 That Was The Week That Was – 6th December 2020
This week was all about the release of a dream project I had been working on for some weeks. Back in July, Jim Coudal, co-founder, …
- 03.12.20 Houdini Quicktip - Camera Culling
Houdini Quicktip - Camera Culling Really great technique for optimising renders.
- 30.11.20 A Technique to Reveal Points Over Time in Houdini
I recently had a need to reveal a series of points over time, but in a random way. There's no doubt a myriad of ways to do this in Houdini, …
- 29.11.20 That Was The Week That Was – 29th November 2020
This week I found myself filled with equal parts excitement and nervousness. On the Wednesday was my debut drop on NiftyGateway – an NFT …
- 29.11.20 Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy | The New Yorker
Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy | The New Yorker Fascinating piece about the founder of Signal.
- 22.11.20 That Was The Week That Was – 22nd November 2020
After buying a Beomaster 1900 from Ebay to replace my Beomaster 1500, I realised a few days later that several of the bulbs – the ones for …
- 16.11.20 Scaling Packed Primitives with Vex in Houdini
Making a note of this handy code snippet I found on https://forums.odforce.net/topic/23353-scaling-packed-objects-with-vex/ for scaling …
- 15.11.20 GETTING STARTED WITH HQUEUE
GETTING STARTED WITH HQUEUE Need to get this setup on my own system.