Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- 20.11.18 Environmental Undulations
#generative #processing
- 18.11.18 Exporting Hires Transparent Bitmaps from Processing
One of the many things I love about Processing, especially within the commercial work I do, is its ability to export high resolution images …
- 18.11.18 Exclude files from git without committing changes to .gitignore
Exclude files from git without committing changes to .gitignore This is a really great way to ignore certain files in a git repository that …
- 15.11.18 traces.vim — range, pattern and substitute preview for Vim
traces.vim — range, pattern and substitute preview for Vim I try to keep my plugins to the bare essentials in Vim, but this one made it …
- 14.11.18 KeyCastr — an open-source keystroke visualiser
KeyCastr — an open-source keystroke visualiser This is really handy little app that you could use in conjunction with LICEcap to make quick …
- 11.11.18 Vim Keyboard Covers for Macbook and IMac
Vim Keyboard Covers for Macbook and IMac As a self-confessed Vim obsessive, I’m looking forward to getting this very handy Vim keyboard …
- 07.11.18 A Simple Email to Blog Gateway for Kirby
When I write a blog post on this site it begins by creating a Kirby formatted text file inside a newly created directory which I then …
- 09.10.18 House of Z
House of Z s://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80200744 Fascinating documentary on the rise and fall and rise again of Zac Posen, fashion …
- 08.10.18 ShellCheck — finds bugs in your shell scripts
ShellCheck — finds bugs in your shell scripts Handy tool for finding bugs in shell scripts.
- 01.10.18 Muslim rule and compass: the magic of Islamic geometric design
Muslim rule and compass: the magic of Islamic geometric design
- 01.10.18 Super Tiny Social Icons
Super Tiny Social Icons Really tiny (under 1KB) SVG based social icons.
- 01.10.18 Buckminster Fuller and Comprehensive Design
Buckminster Fuller and Comprehensive Design "What humankind required, he came to believe, was an individual who could recognize the …
- 30.09.18 Radio 4 Data Stream Day
Radio 4 Data Stream Day Radio 4 takes the entire output of one day’s broadcast and turns it into art. I was very honoured to be asked by …
- 13.09.18 The visible hand within the work
I love this meringue I bought in a local bakery. I love it because, well, I love meringue, but also because by looking at its form I can …
- 24.08.18 The only mechanical pencil I allow myself to own
I’m not a fan of mechanical pencils as I think they largely take away the joy of using a pencil. However I recently made an exception when …
- 22.08.18 Joy and Anger
Work-in-progress
- 22.08.18 Fear
Work-in-progress.
- 22.08.18 Finding distractions
The last few days — in between working on projects — I’ve found myself just staring at the screen, pointlessly browsing Twitter, closing …
- 20.08.18 Video-to-Video Synthesis
Video-to-Video Synthesis The quality of this stuff is getting pretty crazy now.
- 18.08.18 Working on packaging
- 18.08.18 Experimental music notation resources
Experimental music notation resources There’s always new ways to look at things.
- 16.08.18 Dieline Creator
Dieline Creator Really useful resource for creating packaging dielines, letting you input your own settings and then download (for a fee) …
- 16.08.18 Die Line Creator
Die Line Creator s://boxshot.com/dielines/ Really useful set of dielines for packaging that you can customise. Costs $9.99 to download a …
- 15.08.18 Font of the Month Club
Font of the Month Club I’m now in my second year of being a member of David Jonathan Ross’ Font of the Month club and the beginning of each …
- 15.08.18 Carbon
Carbon Carbon – great way to share code screenshots.
- 11.08.18 Using IBM Watson with Processing
Recently I've been working on a project in which I needed to analyse large amounts of text for sentiment and other such things. In the past …
- 02.08.18 Vim File Navigation and Bookmarking with NETRW
When I first started using Vim I read a lot about how I should install a plugin called NerdTree to enable a project drawer type file …
- 01.08.18 Musical notation from John Cage
I have to confess I’m not a fan of John Cage’s solo work but I love how he wrote down his compositions. Whilst there is a well used grammar …
- 01.08.18 Second build of my new system for Fadecandy driven LED installations done
This can drive 1024 LEDs through 16 XLR connections. Inside is a 5v 40a PSU, two Fadecandy‘s and a slimline USB hub. This is a smaller …
- 31.07.18 There’s something very satisfying doing repetitive tasks, just sitting down and …
Eight done, eight more XLR cables to go.