Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- coltrane
- conference
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- Eno
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- ffmpeg
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- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- fzf
- Git
- gridmarkets
- Hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- iOS
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- photoshop
- Plain Text
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- robots
- ThisisHCD
- tmux
- Tools
- touchdesigner
- Transferwise
- Travel
- tw3
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- Ultisnips
- URL
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- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- Everything
- 07.03.18 Diving into the archive
- 06.03.18 Create systems which allow for play
I’ve always felt the computer is part author, especially in coded work. You put parameters in place but there’s scope for plenty of play wit…
- 06.03.18 12345678910,11,12!
- 05.03.18 Quicker Git with Handy Bash Functions
In the course of a typical day I'll write a lot of Git commits, typing out git commit -a -m 'a message' and then doing a git push again and…
- 05.03.18 Thank You Sinclair ZX81
On the 5th March 1981 a small home computer was released that, without exaggeration, changed my life. The Sinclair ZX81, retailing for…
- 05.03.18 Repeat
- 03.03.18 Across the globe
- 02.03.18 Back your sh*t up!
This work that we all make — these little fragments of digital ephemera — well, I think it's important. Over the years that work builds up int…
- 02.03.18 Work-in-progress
Oil tankers can be beautiful.
- 01.03.18 Flights all booked for @offfest — doing the closing talk on the first day in t…
Come say hi!
- 24.02.18 Creating ctags for Processing .pde files for use in Vim
Ctags generate a file of language objects — such as method names and vars — so they can then be used and located inside a text editor such as …
- 23.02.18 Apertures
- 22.02.18 The Path of Least Resistance — Updating A Server Using DeployHQ
It's very easy to get stuck into certain ways of doing things; there's a comfort in the familiar yet the danger is there's actually a…
- 21.02.18 Prototyping forms
- 21.02.18 Making prototypes of what will be a kind of follow up to Analog In Digital Out
- 21.02.18 Detail
- 21.02.18 Spiky Data Sphere
- 21.02.18 My FormBox is currently on its way to me from China
Really looking forward to playing with the possibilities of this beautifully designed machine.
- 20.02.18 Putting 'stupid' ideas into the world
I've always been a great believer in putting ideas out into the world to represent who you are what you're about. It's something I do a lot…
- 19.02.18 Exporting Git Branches
Here's something that may be handy for some of you working with Git. At the end of a project I'll often have many branches that I made…
- 17.02.18 Work-in-progress
- 16.02.18 Tips on exporting video from Processing
Sometimes my projects involve creating HD format — or larger — videos of coded work created in Processing. There's various ways to create vid…
- 15.02.18 An introduction to the Dawesome Toolkit — my library for Processing
The Dawesome Toolkit is a library for Processing that I originally made for myself, so I could use bits of code I always use in my projects…
- 14.02.18 New pencil based project coming soon
I’m working on a new personal project with the lovely people @dustcollective that is part book part pencils part poster thing.
- 13.02.18 Not what I expected
This was a mistake but as mistakes go, I quite like it.
- 11.02.18 Make it Shine: Rendering 3D Objects Made in Processing
For a few years now I've been creating physical objects from data — using Processing to essentially terraform an object such as a sphere, a…
- 08.02.18 Using a Git Repo to create a physical document of the work
I've always felt it important to document the work. Sketches, scraps, iterations, failures and surprises are all part of the process and so…
- 08.02.18 On Valuing Artists
This morning a friend of mine sent me a link to something she thought would be of interest to me — a Computational Arts Residency at G…
- 07.02.18 Using a restaurant style Tab Grabber as a todo list
This is something I’ve been doing for over a year now. Rather than write down my daily task list in a journal or in some web based system, I…
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the CP5…