Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- data
- dataart
- design
- dropbox
- eno
- everyday objects
- eyes
- ffmpeg
- flocking
- fotb
- fusion360
- future-everything
- fzf
- generative systems
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- hitfilm
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- python
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- roslindale
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- time
- tmux
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- touchdesigner
- transferwise
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- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
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- zx81
- Everything
/everyday objects
- 13.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 13th October 2019
Much of this week saw me doing final work for the next Produced for Use release, scheduled for the end of October. I invested in a nice …
- 07.10.19 That Was The Week That Was — 6th October 2019
I iterated from the Voronoi fracture stuff I was doing the week before and decided to try it out with some typography, using the Crayonette …
- 30.09.19 Handy FFMpeg Automator Scripts
This is a follow up to the post detailing how to quickly convert sequential images into a movie using ffmpeg. Since writing that I've added …
- 29.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 29th September 2019
More learnings this week in Houdini, as I dive deeper into Vellum, Houdini's soft body simulation stuff. For a while I had a series of …
- 23.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd September 2019
When I have a bit of down time I try and use that time to learn new things or new techniques that I might later use in my work. So this …
- 17.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 15th September 2019
At the start of the week I found myself firing up Fusion 360 to create a better case for my Git Deploy Notifier which I had built the …
- 16.09.19 A Simple Colour / Texture Map Creator Using Processing
When I'm working in Houdini or other 3D software, I might need to use an image as a colour map texture which can then be applied to a …
- 10.09.19 If you want to get things done, pause | Life and style | The Guardian
If you want to get things done, pause | Life and style | The Guardian I’m a big fan of the pause.
- 08.09.19 That Was The Week That Was — 8th September 2019
Arrived back to a drizzly UK after two weeks away in the French sunshine. I purposefully left me phone behind when we went out and didn't …
- 01.09.19 What the Ack! Multi-file Find and Replace with Vim and Ack
Occasionally it's handy to be able to do a find and replace across multiple files, or even insert something new across many files. Using …
- 21.08.19 Work-in-progress
Everything starts with a simple sketch. The act of scribbling things is directly connected, I believe, to how thoughts are formed, starting …
- 18.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — August 18th 2019
As Getz / Gilberto dominated the turntable this week, I continued to send out the Manifesto for Myself prints, only now the print arrives …
- 14.08.19 Adobe Alternatives
No longer will you find Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator on any of the Macs I use. You will find Premiere but that's only kept around in case …
- 11.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — August 11th 2019
My new print — Manifesto for Myself — arrived on the Tuesday from Harvey Lloyd Screens and looked fantastic. It's an A5 two colour screen …
- 09.08.19 Two Tortillas
Last night myself and Lisa were watching the fourth episode of Remarkable Places to Eat, a BBC series with First Dates' Fred Sirieix, which …
- 06.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — 4th August 2019
The Entagma Houdini tutorials on Vimeo have been a great resource for my Houdini learnigs, and so I thought it was about time to stump up …
- 28.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 28th July 2019
At the beginning of the week I put together the first round of images for this latest client work. These were very much work in progress — …
- 28.07.19 Creating small experiments
One of the things I do whenever I have some downtime is explore or learn a new technique and then save that out so I may use it in the …
- 21.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 21st July 2019
I started in earnest on a new client commission — creating four images using data, for a US based client. As usual everything starts out …
- 15.07.19 Overwhelmed by your to-do lists? Try this simple solution | Oliver Burkeman | …
Overwhelmed by your to-do lists? Try this simple solution | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian I use a similar system to this, …
- 14.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 14th July 2019
This week saw Lisa and myself take an impromptu break to the city of Copenhagen. We're both fans of Danish design so we were both looking …
- 07.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 7th July 2019
This week I was mainly working in TouchDesigner, getting stuff finished for an exciting meeting happening the following week. One of the …
- 02.07.19 Modifying TouchDesigner Table DATs
This drove me a little crazy for a good hour, so I thought I'd make a note of this for myself and maybe for others. I had a table DAT in …
- 02.07.19 A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him | Music | The Guardian
A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him | Music | The Guardian I first heard about this story when I watched Whiplash, though I …
- 01.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 30th June 2019
Even though I had just signed the contract for my next project, there was still a few things to fall into place before I could actually …
- 19.06.19 Rename a local and remote branch in git
Rename a local and remote branch in git https://multiplestates.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/rename-a-local-and-remote-branch-in-git/ Often …
- 16.06.19 How to tie a very useful Knot to know (i.e. for tying up things like bundles of …
How to tie a very useful Knot to know (i.e. for tying up things like bundles of newspapers etc). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVgas-i78Ak
- 09.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 9th June 2019
Headed to Heidelberg on the Tuesday as I was speaking at a Trend Micro Partner Talk event the next morning. I was giving the keynote as …
- 03.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 2nd June 2019
This week was pretty laid back as I'm waiting on a contract to come through for a new piece of work which I'm excited to get going on. To …
- 29.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 29th May 2019
This week I was focussed on getting a piece of work completed for an upcoming talk in Germany for Trend Micro. I had been given the …