Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- sound
- time
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- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
- 21.05.19 Aphrodite
- 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 …
- 09.05.19 The Performance Artist Who Went To Impossible Extremes
The Performance Artist Who Went To Impossible Extremes
- 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 …
- 01.05.19 Wires and Bits
- 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 …
- 28.04.19 Noisy
- 27.04.19 Wire
Similar technique as before but makes things look more circuit like. #houdinifx #generative
- 26.04.19 SOS growth
- 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 …
- 22.04.19 T.S. Eliot on the artists’ mind as a test chamber.
Love this quote from T.S. Eliot about thoughts, feelings and images as particles, uniting to form a compound.
- 21.04.19 Fascinating article in The New Yorker about scouting v scoring in not just …
Fascinating article in The New Yorker about scouting v scoring in not just baseball but all aspects of life Fascinating article in The New …
- 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 …
- 14.04.19 Deigo Monzon’s Illustrator to GCode Panel
Deigo Monzon’s Illustrator to GCode Panel Whilst Inkscape has its uses, I find it so painful to use, especially when I’m forced to use it …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 29.03.19 More frequency
- 28.03.19 There’s nothing more satisfying than when you manage to figure out something …
Currently working on a project in TouchDesigner and needed an elegant way to fade out and fade in audio programmatically. In the end I used …
- 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 …
- 26.03.19 Strata
- 25.03.19 Contours
- 25.03.19 Matthew Ragan’s TouchDesigner Resources
Matthew Ragan’s TouchDesigner Resources One of my current projects sees me working in TouchDesigner. This resource from Matthew Ragan is a …
- 21.03.19 Vents