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
- 22.04.14 Black & White Swarms
Simple black and white. Swarms mapped around a sphere. A video posted by Brendan Dawes (@brendandawes) on Apr 22, 2014 at 8:18am PDT
- 01.11.13 Hatch Show Print
"We're all carving new blocks all the time, something to add, something new". Great film about the legendary Hatch Show Print who are …
- 04.10.13 Limited Edition Prints
Various limited edition prints are now available through the new online shop. Head on over to Cashier Number One Please
- 23.09.13 Manipulating a 3D mesh with Leap Motion
- 22.07.13 Coming soon - minimal iOS weather app
UPDATE: Now available from the App Store. In the process of learning new things, I wanted to learn more about Geolocation on the iPhone as …
- 10.07.13 Sphere and Oscillation
Hypeframework mapping around a sphere with oscillation.
- 24.05.13 Work-in-progress: Box of Tweets
A tiny OLED display is used to show past tweets from my Twitter archive. Turning the rotary control allows me to traverse the archive one …
- 22.04.13 Generative Flock Reveal
Generative flock reveal
- 02.04.13 Adventures so far with Leap Motion
Early days, but beginning to play with the wonderful Leap Motion to see what works well, what doesn't, what might work as an interface. …
- 07.01.13 For Sale: Makerbot Thing-O-Matic
After two years of wonderful service I'm now upgrading my Makerbot to a Replicator 2 so it's time to sell my beloved Makerbot Thing-O-Matic …
- 07.12.12 Inspiration: Angelo Badalamenti on creating the theme for Twin Peaks
I first showed this at my talk on creative process at the Creative Liverpool event on 6th December 2012. For me, it's a wonderful example …
- 12.11.12 Goodbye magneticNorth
I can finally announce – following a brief period as part-time Creative Consultant – I have now officially left magneticNorth. For ten …
- 02.10.12 Meet Limor 'ladyada' Fried at Adafruit Industries!
Many of the projects I make have Adafruit parts buried inside, but more importantly the amount of stuff I've learned via the Adafruit site …
- 02.10.12 Creating a physical button to mark the now with Electric Imp
An Internet connected button allows me to mark a moment in time together with the surrounding context of what the weather was doing and …
- 21.09.12 Paul Smith on adding interesting touches
"When you're dealing with simplicity it's really just a matter of how you put things together."
- 12.09.12 Bill Moggridge: designing objects that allow us to grow fonder of them
From Gary Hustwit's Objectified, Bill Moggridge – creator of the first laptop and co-founder of Ideo – who passed away on 8th September …
- 11.09.12 Paula Scher: Do What You've Never Done Before
Pentagram's Paula Scher talks about designing the identity for The Highline.
- 29.08.12 Internet Connected Walkie-Talkie
Take one nice and cheap audio system for greeting cards, wire it up to Electric Imp, put it into a 1960's Walkie Talkie and you have an …
- 28.08.12 First Steps with Electric Imp
A video demo of my first steps with the wonderful Electric Imp, creating a small, self-contained Internet connected object.
- 24.08.12 An Exploration in Craft: Tanner Goods
Lovely film from Ryan Bush on Portland's Tanner Goods.
- 15.08.12 Animated Vines
I love the sound the paper makes as it moves. Just one of the fascinating projects at the High-Low Tech Group at MIT.
- 15.08.12 Kenneth Grange: I love to make things
"I don't know a scallywag in our industry".
- 15.08.12 Tom Dixon: Enjoy every day for what it brings
"I'm only ever interested in what I'm doing next."
- 13.08.12 Armin Hoffman: The whole point was to do it with the minimal of means
Created for the AIGA by Dress Code, wonderful short piece on Armin Hoffman.
- 10.08.12 Ira Glass on Storytelling
"You want to be constantly raising questions." This American Life's Ira Glass talks about the building blocks of storytelling.
- 09.08.12 Code 2600 Hacker Documentary
"Everything you've ever done is recorded somewhere."
- 09.08.12 Karim Rashid: I feel like I need less and less in my life
"I think people who are sacred with an idea, and don't want to be copied, have no other ideas."
- 06.08.12 Bobby Fischer Against the World
After reading the book Bobby Fischer Goes to War a few years ago, I finally got around to watching the HBO documentary Bobby Fischer …
- 06.08.12 Robert Rodriguez Ten Minute Film School
One my favourite books on creative process and the power of just getting on and making stuff is Rodriguez's Rebel Without A Crew. This …
- 04.08.12 My first DIY Arduino shield made with Fritzing
Recently, whilst looking for a way to document the wiring for the little Arduino projects I make, I chanced upon a great free app called …