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
- 06.02.19 Noisy vinyl
- 06.02.19 Noise ridges
- 02.02.19 Quick sketch of Boolean growth test
- 30.01.19 The First Things I Install on a New Mac
Having recently put my trusty 2012 iMac out to pasture — a machine that has given me great service over the years — I had the task of …
- 29.01.19 Interview on This is HCD Podcast
When I was speaking at Pixel Pioneers Belfast in November 2018, Gerry Scullion — founder and host of the This is HCD podcast — asked if I'd …
- 27.01.19 Florence Knoll Basset Interview from 2010
Florence Knoll Basset Interview from 2010 “That revolution in the office took place 20 years ago and Florence Schust (Schu) Knoll, the …
- 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 …