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
- Arduino
- Automator
- Backup
- Bash
- Bookmark
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- Face-Tracking
- ffmpeg
- FOTB
- 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
- tx3
- Ultisnips
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- Everything
- 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…
- 06.02.18 Automating movie file conversion to MP4
I’m always keen to try and automate processes I repeat a lot, so this is something I’ve done recently that I find handy for my…
- 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…
- 06.02.18 Currently mapping thousands of pipelines.
- 05.02.18 Making busy data analysis grids.
- 03.02.18 I always find it puzzling when I see “a list of books for designers” that list boo…
- 31.01.18 Switching to Vim
Last year I made a decision to switch to Vim for all my coding and text editing. Many times before I’ve tried Vim but always ended…
- 30.01.18 Strangelove. Or how I stopped worrying how web design is meant to be and got…
brendandawes.com has been online since 2000. Over that time it’s been through various incarnations, from purely Flash based (gasp) to s…
- 27.01.18 Iteration
- 25.01.18 Prototyping packaging ready for new pencils.
- 24.01.18 Happiness! 2D coordinate translation from 3D world in p5js.
- 24.01.18 The thing is, Web Design doesn’t have to be about grids. Web Design is not a d…
- 24.01.18 Different categories create different white noise based soundtrack. I’ve also a…
- 23.01.18 Typographic descriptions of categories with visual linking.
- 23.01.18 Trying to map 3D world coordinates to 2D screen coordinates without much…
- 22.01.18 As I wait for data from a client, going to fashion this into an interface for…
- 22.01.18 Testing hi-lighting different project categories and their connections. Liking…
- 21.01.18 Might revisit this code I wrote to display a time based map of all my work.…
- 21.01.18 Testing reading in archive and displaying in the browser using p5.js
- 19.01.18 The Five C’s of Cinematography (1965) by Joseph V. Mascelli. Whilst technology h…
- 17.01.18 Whilst the majority of my work is coded, I still love to make things by hand…
- 16.01.18 Designing Design by Kenya Hara. Probably my favourite book on design mainly…
- 15.01.18 Heading down to London to see the brilliant DBLG. Remote is ready.
- 13.01.18 Everything Connects.
- 12.01.18 Filming the updated version of my soon to be open source Plastic Player today.
- 12.01.18 Creating and sending out gifts to clients who very kindly worked with me last…
- 12.01.18 From the shelves in the studio, beautiful clock-work Kodak cine camera. Such a…