Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
- Ack
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Axidraw
- Backup
- Bash
- Boids
- Bookmark
- Books
- Cncserver
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- FOTB
- Face-Tracking
- Flocking
- Fusion360
- Future-Everything
- Git
- Hardware
- IFTTT
- IndieWeb
- Input
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Inventory
- Keyshot
- Kirby
- Leap Motion
- Mac
- Makerbot
- Making
- Markdown
- Misconceptions
- Notes
- OpenFrameworks
- Opinion
- Output
- P5js
- Plain Text
- Plotter
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- Roslindale
- ThisisHCD
- Tools
- Transferwise
- Travel
- URL
- Ultisnips
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- adobe
- anamorph
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- ffmpeg
- fzf
- gridmarkets
- hitfilm
- houdini
- iOS
- making
- nft
- notch
- photoshop
- robots
- tmux
- touchdesigner
- tw3
- tx3
- Everything
/2018
- 16.02.18 Tips on exporting video from Processing
Sometimes my projects involve creating HD format — or larger — videos of coded work created in Processing. There's various ways to create …
- 15.02.18 An introduction to the Dawesome Toolkit — my library for Processing
The Dawesome Toolkit is a library for Processing that I originally made for myself, so I could use bits of code I always use in my projects …
- 14.02.18 New pencil based project coming soon
I’m working on a new personal project with the lovely people @dustcollective that is part book part pencils part poster thing.
- 13.02.18 Not what I expected
This was a mistake but as mistakes go, I quite like it.
- 11.02.18 Make it Shine: Rendering 3D Objects Made in Processing
For a few years now I've been creating physical objects from data — using Processing to essentially terraform an object such as a sphere, …
- 08.02.18 Using a Git Repo to create a physical document of the work
I've always felt it important to document the work. Sketches, scraps, iterations, failures and surprises are all part of the process and so …
- 08.02.18 On Valuing Artists
This morning a friend of mine sent me a link to something she thought would be of interest to me — a Computational Arts Residency at …
- 07.02.18 Using a restaurant style Tab Grabber as a todo list
This is something I’ve been doing for over a year now. Rather than write down my daily task list in a journal or in some web based system, …
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the CP5 …
- 06.02.18 Automating movie file conversion to MP4
I’m always keen to try and automate processes I repeat a lot, so this is something I’ve done recently that I find handy for my …
- 06.02.18 Creating Systems
. Pretty much any work I create usually has a GUI behind it that I can then use to create the final compositions or sequences. I love the …
- 06.02.18 Currently mapping thousands of pipelines.
- 05.02.18 Making busy data analysis grids.
- 03.02.18 I always find it puzzling when I see “a list of books for designers” that list …
- 31.01.18 Switching to Vim
Last year I made a decision to switch to Vim for all my coding and text editing. Many times before I’ve tried Vim but always ended up …
- 30.01.18 Strangelove. Or how I stopped worrying how web design is meant to be and got …
brendandawes.com has been online since 2000. Over that time it’s been through various incarnations, from purely Flash based (gasp) to …
- 27.01.18 Iteration
- 25.01.18 Prototyping packaging ready for new pencils.
- 24.01.18 Happiness! 2D coordinate translation from 3D world in p5js.
- 24.01.18 The thing is, Web Design doesn’t have to be about grids. Web Design is not a …
- 24.01.18 Different categories create different white noise based soundtrack. I’ve also …
- 23.01.18 Typographic descriptions of categories with visual linking.
- 23.01.18 Trying to map 3D world coordinates to 2D screen coordinates without much …
- 22.01.18 As I wait for data from a client, going to fashion this into an interface for …
- 22.01.18 Testing hi-lighting different project categories and their connections. Liking …
- 21.01.18 Might revisit this code I wrote to display a time based map of all my work. …
- 21.01.18 Testing reading in archive and displaying in the browser using p5.js
- 19.01.18 The Five C’s of Cinematography (1965) by Joseph V. Mascelli. Whilst technology …
- 17.01.18 Whilst the majority of my work is coded, I still love to make things by hand …
- 16.01.18 Designing Design by Kenya Hara. Probably my favourite book on design mainly …