Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- adobe
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Axidraw
- Backup
- Bash
- Boids
- Bookmark
- Books
- Cncserver
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- Face-Tracking
- ffmpeg
- Flocking
- FOTB
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- fzf
- Git
- gridmarkets
- Hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- iOS
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- photoshop
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- robots
- Roslindale
- ThisisHCD
- tmux
- Tools
- touchdesigner
- Transferwise
- Travel
- tw3
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- Ultisnips
- URL
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- Vim
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- Watson
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- ZX81
- Everything
/Process
- 13.12.18 More scenes from the cutting-room floor
#generative #processing
- 12.12.18 Scenes from the cutting-room floor
- 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 l…
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 use…
- 27.11.18 Data flows
#datavisualization #generative
- 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 I…
- 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 Twitt…
- 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 for…
- 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 v…
- 31.07.18 There’s something very satisfying doing repetitive tasks, just sitting down and d…
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 w…
- 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 b…
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…