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
- Backup
- Bash
- Bookmark
- coltrane
- conference
- dataart
- Design
- Dropbox
- Eno
- Eyes
- Face-Tracking
- ffmpeg
- 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
- Process
- Processing
- Python
- robots
- ThisisHCD
- tmux
- Tools
- touchdesigner
- Transferwise
- Travel
- tw3
- tx3
- Ultisnips
- URL
- Video
- Vim
- Vimwiki
- Watson
- Web
- Work
- ZX81
- Everything
/2019
- 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 — s…
- 09.06.19 ELECTRONIC POP FOR THE SURVEILLANCE ERA
ELECTRONIC POP FOR THE SURVEILLANCE ERA https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/electronic-pop-for-the-surveillance-era
- 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…
- 01.06.19 Waking
- 31.05.19 A little Fritz Lang like
- 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
- 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…
- 21.05.19 More work-in-progress
Like the use of flat circles in Houdini.
- 21.05.19 Work-in-progress
For a client thing, using Processing to construct a csv file from provided data then importing that csv into Houdini. Quite a nice…
- 21.05.19 Aphrodite
- 20.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 19th May 2019
A week of travel. Firstly Dusseldorf for Beyond Tellerrand for a few days then back for less than 24 hours before heading to Moscow for…
- 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…
- 09.05.19 The Performance Artist Who Went To Impossible Extremes
The Performance Artist Who Went To Impossible Extremes
- 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…
- 05.05.19 That Was The Week That Was — 5th May 2019
Due to an invitation I received on the previous Friday, on the Tuesday I found myself sat in the Russian Visa Centre, documents in hand…
- 04.05.19 Writing Terminal Output to a File
Whenever I have an installation running remotely at a physical location, I often need to monitor the state of that installation. I use a…
- 01.05.19 Wires and Bits
- 28.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 28th April 2019
The week started out on a sad note when John Davey announced he was ending the Reasons festival which happens in Brighton each year. I…
- 28.04.19 Noisy
- 27.04.19 Wire
Similar technique as before but makes things look more circuit like. #houdinifx #generative
- 26.04.19 SOS growth
- 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…
- 22.04.19 Memories of Flash on the Beach
I received news today that John Davey has decided to end the Reasons.to conferences which happened in Brighton (and London). It's sad to…
- 22.04.19 T.S. Eliot on the artists’ mind as a test chamber.
Love this quote from T.S. Eliot about thoughts, feelings and images as particles, uniting to form a compound.
- 21.04.19 Fascinating article in The New Yorker about scouting v scoring in not just…
Fascinating article in The New Yorker about scouting v scoring in not just baseball but all aspects of life Fascinating article in The New…
- 19.04.19 My Conference Code of Conduct
Many conferences now have a codes of conduct. So in this same spirit I thought I would write the code of conduct for ME that I can pass to…
- 15.04.19 That Was The Week That Was — 14th April 2019
I've been continuing to work on Project X in TouchDesigner and after some feedback from my fellow collaborator I've got some more crafting…