Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Axidraw
- Backup
- Bash
- Boids
- Bookmark
- Books
- Cncserver
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- FOTB
- Face-Tracking
- Flocking
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- URL
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
- fzf
- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- tmux
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
- 18.01.19 HOUDINI - RESCALING THE UI FOR HIGH DPI MONITORS
HOUDINI - RESCALING THE UI FOR HIGH DPI MONITORS Great tip by Matthew Hanger that came in very handy when I upgraded to an iMac Pro with …
- 12.01.19 John Whitney's Showreel from 1961
I’ve always been a fan of John Whitney’s work, starting from when I first saw his collaboration with Saul Bass to create the Vertigo titles …
- 08.01.19 Lovely collection of 3D scanned artworks
Lovely collection of 3D scanned artworks This is a nice collection of 3D scanned artworks, all free to use without restriction.
- 07.01.19 Unravelling Monet
Colours derived from a Monet painting. #houdini
- 04.01.19 Great tutorial on working with CSV data in Houdini
This is a really great tutorial by Niklas Rosenstein showing how to use csv files with Python in Houdini, rendering over one billion points!
- 04.01.19 Le Corbusier's colour keyboards
Whilst I’m not a fan of everything Le Corbusier did — some work is just too brutal even for me — I’ve always loved his colour keyboards. …
- 03.01.19 Collection of Cassette Inlays
Nice collection of cassette inlay covers via Flickr. I think at some point back in the eighties I must have had all of these, usually …
- 02.01.19 A Visual Review of 2018
I posted this story on Instagram, mostly for myself to jog my memory of what I got up to workwise in 2018, and decided to post it here for …
- 02.01.19 Forming my talk for New Adventures
Scribbling, doodling and making marks that will eventually form my talk at New Adventures in Nottingham in a few weeks. My notes for a talk …
- 02.01.19 Marbled Endpapers from the Bank of North America
In the course of some research, chanced upon this nice Flickr collection of marbled endpapers taken from the Bank of North America.
- 02.01.19 Marbled Endpapers from the Bank of North America
In the course of some research, chanced upon this nice Flickr collection of marbled endpapers taken from the Bank of North America.
- 01.01.19 Images from the 1906 book Polyhedra by Prof. Max Bruckner
A wonderful collection of images http://bulatov.org/polyhedra/bruckner1906/index.html detailing plates from this 1906 book of Polyhedra. …
- 31.12.18 Lynne Ramsey talks about making You Were Never Really Here
I love Lynne Ramsey's work and this is a great interview about the process of making the incredible You Were Never Really Here.
- 31.12.18 My go-to pen: the Caran d’Ache 849
No matter how many pens I try, I always come back to this Swiss made classic. A beautifully simple design, the aluminium case is not too …
- 27.12.18 Bruce Sterling — How to be Futuristic
Bruce Sterling — How to be Futuristic Love this insightful, humorous talk at the bar of The Long Now from Bruce Sterling.
- 19.12.18 I recently cleared my desk of unnecessary things, such as the pot of pens that …
These are: a jewellers magnifier — great for reading wherever small print maybe, an Olfa Magna touch knife — use this every day for opening …
- 13.12.18 Reversing Selected Lines in Vim
This was something I needed to do recently, having listed some events on my site but then later realising they were in the reverse order of …
- 13.12.18 More scenes from the cutting-room floor
#generative #processing
- 12.12.18 Scenes from the cutting-room floor
- 09.12.18 Using Transferwise Borderless Accounts To Save Money When Getting Paid by …
Probably like you, my clients are spread across the globe. Even though home is a Victorian seaside town in the North of England, the beauty …
- 08.12.18 Gitbot
I used to have this old toy robot make sounds whenever anyone visited my site, but it was a little annoying. Today I reconfigured it so it …
- 28.11.18 Scrubbing the floors instead — why I no longer worry about keeping up with the …
I used to worry about keeping up with the state-of-the-art; I used to worry whether I knew enough about that latest technology that had …
- 28.11.18 My Altoids Tin for Travel Emergencies
Wherever I travel, this battered Altoids tin comes with me. Open it and you'll find various objects that can and have come in handy over …
- 27.11.18 My Battered Travel Emergency Altoids Tin
This is the Altoids tin that’s been travelling around the world with me for many years. Inside are things I’ve used, or other people have …
- 27.11.18 A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now'
A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now' Beautifully made radio program from the BBC about deep time and the long now.
- 27.11.18 Data flows
#datavisualization #generative
- 25.11.18 So much good stuff in this Brian Eno news letter from 1974
So much good stuff in this Brian Eno news letter from 1974 Eno talks about idea generation and the danger of using techniques we already …
- 24.11.18 Fresh — app to show recently updated files — one of my most used apps
Fresh — app to show recently updated files — one of my most used apps Whenever I get a new Mac, Fresh is one of the first things I install. …
- 21.11.18 Sneak peek of the interface / system I’ve built for this latest piece of work
Building my own systems is a big part of my process. Doing this means I have control of every aspect, creating a tool to create the work …
- 20.11.18 Using Vimwiki as a simple, synced, note taking system
For many years I've been using Evernote to store notes, code snippets, found things from the web and a whole lot of other stuff. I like it, …