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- 16.04.26 Creating Organic Lines and Tubes in Touch Designer using POPs
A quick post to show a technique I use to create organic like lines in Touch Designer using POP operators. I won't go into every step but …
- 22.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd February 2026
"World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The …
- 11.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 11th January 2026
Whilst there was much noise above where I worked in the studio at home — with the roofers putting a new roof on the house — it was still …
- 30.03.25 Apollo 11 Static
Apollo 11 Static. Created in 2009 for the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Moon landing, the entire Apollo 11 transmission transcript creates …
- 02.03.25 That Was The Week That Was – 2nd March 2025
At some point this week I realised 2025 marked 25 years since I first registered brendandawes.com. It's been my corner of the web where …
- 27.02.25 💥Now available - a new plotted generative art series to commemorate twenty five …
💥Now available - a new plotted generative art series to commemorate twenty five years of brendandawes.com. Using an AxiDraw plotter, each …
- 21.02.25 Wonderful evening at @christiesinc in New York for Augmented Intelligence
Wonderful evening at @christiesinc in New York for Augmented Intelligence. A beautifully curated exhibition showcasing the full breadth of …
- 26.01.25 That Was The Week That Was - 26th January 2025
Sunday saw me heading to New York for a few days to meetup with Gary Hustwit to consult on a new film project through our joint venture …
- 06.01.25 Llamas, Pizzas, Mandolins by Paul Taylor
Llamas, Pizzas, Mandolins by Paul Taylor ‘If I were advising governments, I would say that there’s a 10 per cent chance these things will …
- 05.01.25 That Was The Week That Was - 5th January 2025
There are certain things in this world which keep me sane; things that I look too which reinforce my idea people are inherently good and …
- 19.12.24 Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers
Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers Great lecture by David Spiegelhalter on chance, randomness and …
- 29.11.23 The Swan
The Swan. Using a Natalia Makarova performance of the 1905 ballet The Dying Swan, time and choreography give rise to a flowing sculptural …
- 19.10.20 Inspiration shoud always be a fuzzy thing
Right now the work I’m making is often monochromatic, exploring light and shadow, composition and contrast within a greyscale palette. This …
- 09.08.20 That Was The Week That Was – 9th August 2020
For twelve years my 2nd generation Drobo has been my main archive drive, with 16TB of data whirring away under my desk, storing all my …
- 07.08.20 Wabi Sabi
Wabi Sabi Wabi sabi as an aesthetic concept is generally described as a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. A beauty of …
- 07.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 7th June 2020
The notebook I ordered from Armorial arrived and it was very disappointing. The finish of the binding was very badly done, and in the …
- 03.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2020
During the sixth week of lockdown I explored some sound reactive work in Houdini. I'd played around with this type of stuff before, and …
- 16.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 16th February 2020
I really dislike Slack. Had to use it a few times and discovered it's not for me. I find it a huge distraction to actually getting work …
- 09.02.20 That Was The Week That Was — 9th February 2020
A beautiful book arrived in the post this week from Christopher Grünberger. Analog Algorithm — Source Related Grid Systems, is a kind of …
- 12.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 12th January 2020
The Entagma Houdini tutorials are always really high quality, so I wasn't surprised to see just how good this series of videos were …
- 05.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th January 2020
Every now and then I like to go back and revisit an experiment I've been playing with, to see if I can dig down further, to see what might …
- 31.12.19 Moving all the points in a Houdini primitive using Vex
This is just a quick one but wanted to note this down for future reference. Sometimes it's handy to be able to manipulate all the points in …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 31.05.19 Electronic City
More playing with these noise generated patterns, this time a bit of modulo action to create some striping, plus grouping of materials.
- 30.05.19 Continuing to play with using noise to create ridged forms
- 13.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 12th May 2019
After the bank holiday on the Monday I travelled up to Edinburgh to apply for my Russian Visa so I could make my trip to OFFF Moscow the …
- 17.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 17th March 2019
There seemed to be a big German theme this week. I had an email from an agency in Germany asking if I would be available to speak at an …
- 06.02.19 Metallic disco noise