Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
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- Bookmark
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- IFTTT
- Input
- Inspiration
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- Kirby
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Notes
- Opinion
- Output
- Process
- Processing
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- URL
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- Vim
- Web
- Work
- ack
- adobe
- altoids
- analog
- anamorph
- arduino
- automator
- axidraw
- backup
- bash
- boids
- bookmark
- books
- cinema
- cncserver
- code
- coltrane
- conference
- data
- dataart
- design
- dropbox
- eno
- everyday objects
- eyes
- ffmpeg
- flocking
- fotb
- fusion360
- future-everything
- fzf
- generative systems
- git
- gridmarkets
- hardware
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- ifttt
- imperfection
- indieweb
- input
- inspiration
- installation
- inventory
- ios
- keyshot
- kirby
- leap motion
- mac
- machine learning
- making
- markdown
- memory
- misconceptions
- nft
- notch
- notes
- openframeworks
- opinion
- output
- p5js
- photoshop
- plain text
- plotter
- process
- processing
- python
- robots
- roslindale
- sound
- time
- tmux
- tools
- touchdesigner
- transferwise
- travel
- tw3
- ultisnips
- video
- vim
- vimwiki
- vinyl
- visual systems
- watson
- web
- work
- zx81
- Everything
/visual systems
- 31.07.19 Strangely enough, all my work this year has been made using node and wire style …
I find it a really nice, intuitive, visual and playful way to work. Of course I also combine with code when I need to (though Python in TD …
- 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, …
- 09.06.19 Using Vex to automatically create groups of points from CSV data in Houdini
In my continuing adventures with Houdini I was playing around with this CSV file containing number of kills by James Bond in Bond movies — …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 11.05.19 Permission to Write Stuff
One of my favourite ever pieces of tech was the original Flip camera. It came out at a time when the only way to shoot video was to dust …
- 06.05.19 Ultisnips snippet to quickly create Markdown formatted links using content from …
When I'm writing a blog post or putting together some other article on my site, I often need to create links to content on the web. I do …
- 24.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 21st April 2019
This week saw me travel to San Francisco for Smashing Conference. I couldn't let anyone know I was travelling there as I was the so called …
- 10.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 7th April 2019
Whilst waiting in a car park I was checking Instagram when I saw that little red dot appear in the top right corner — the one that says you …
- 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 …
- 10.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 10th March 2019
Much of the week was spent finally getting round to doing a much needed update to Kennedy, my app for capturing the now. Since iOS 12 came …
- 02.03.19 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd March 2019
Monday I started in earnest on a title sequence for an upcoming conference — another project I'm creating in Houdini. It's based on the …
- 01.03.19 Hail to the g
The more I dig into Vim the more I discover the power of the most simple commands and key combinations. One of those is the use of the g …
- 22.02.19 A Handy Command Line Script to Generate a Readme File for Project Delivery
When a project is completed I often have many files to deliver to the client. When I'm delivering these files I like to create folders for …
- 04.01.19 Le Corbusier's colour keyboards
Whilst I’m not a fan of everything Le Corbusier did — some work is just too brutal even for me — I’ve always loved his colour keyboards. …
- 02.01.19 A Visual Review of 2018
I posted this story on Instagram, mostly for myself to jog my memory of what I got up to workwise in 2018, and decided to post it here for …
- 13.12.18 Reversing Selected Lines in Vim
This was something I needed to do recently, having listed some events on my site but then later realising they were in the reverse order of …
- 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 …
- 18.11.18 Exporting Hires Transparent Bitmaps from Processing
One of the many things I love about Processing, especially within the commercial work I do, is its ability to export high resolution images …
- 02.08.18 Vim File Navigation and Bookmarking with NETRW
When I first started using Vim I read a lot about how I should install a plugin called NerdTree to enable a project drawer type file …
- 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 …
- 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, …
- 04.06.18 A Thank You to Processing
There are two pieces of software that have been a big part of my career: one was Flash and the other was — and continues to be — …
- 21.05.18 My Fave Vim Colour Scheme
Colour schemes in coding IDEs are a very personal thing. For a long time I favoured Gruvbox, which I found really pleasant to work with. …
- 16.05.18 Deleting Thousands of Lines not Containing a Pattern with Vim
Here's a small demonstration of why I love Vim so much — editing large amounts of data such as csv and tsv files. Let's say I have a fairly …
- 09.04.18 The Point of Making Pointless Things
If you've ever been to one of my talks you may have heard me say "put work into the world which deserves to exist." Whilst I'm very much …