Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- Keyshot
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- Mac
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- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
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- ZX81
- adobe
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- conference
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- Everything
/Process
- 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 Environmental Undulations
#generative #processing
- 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 …
- 18.08.18 Working on packaging
- 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.
- 25.07.18 Iterations
Lots of prototyping going on right now to try and get this new thing where I want it to be. Getting there.
- 23.07.18 Interactions
- 22.07.18 My File Naming Convention
Over the years I've had a pretty loose approach to naming files. When you've got deadlines often times you're not concerned with how a file …
- 15.07.18 Less, but Better
Recently I've noticed something with my work output — year on year I'm making less. When I first started my site almost twenty years ago, I …
- 27.06.18 Carefully Everywhere
- 21.06.18 Late night Formboxing
- 19.06.18 Transitions
- 18.06.18 From the archive: Chomsky Space
I took some Noam Chomsky sound bites and put them into a 3D interface. The idea was encourage exploration through sound and typography, …
- 13.06.18 Prototype #2
Better but lots of voids and I cracked it getting it out the mold. Forward!
- 13.06.18 Forming
- 13.06.18 First concrete cast made with a form from the @teammayku FormBox
Mixture wasn’t right and the release agent didn’t work as expected, but it’s a start.
- 10.06.18 There’s something very satisfying seeing a notebook become worn, dog eared and …
Each mark is a scar from its use, a moment in its history, whether that be jotting down a phone number, a take-away food list, notes on …
- 05.06.18 Storing and Organising Physical Things with Sortly
Much of my work these days is creating physical installations, often using various components — be they digital or analogue — that I have …
- 04.06.18 Upgrade your thinking more often than your software
From Notes to Myself @producedforuse
- 01.06.18 Holding the Door Open for Others
In my new book Notes to Myself, there's a note about holding the door open for others. Whilst literally this is always a nice thing to do, …
- 01.06.18 Nine lovely Japanese stamps
- 17.05.18 Spiky data hammer-head
- 16.05.18 Twitter activity 2015
- 16.05.18 Tube like structure made from coding commits
I like on this you can see the different moments of activity around the different major code releases.