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 drunkenness of things being various."
— Louis MacNeice

I loved this piece about plurality and poetry written by Seamus Perry for the LRB. So much of it resonated in respect of generative systems and my pen was constantly circling sections as I read things such as the happy eachness of all things and somethings always escapes.

New things played on the turntable this week after a wonderful visit to Dead Air Records in Liverpool. I came away with Talking Heads' Remain in Light, Underworld's Born Slippy and the masterpiece that is Suede's second album Dog Man Star. The latter has dominated the turntable this week. I just can't hear this enough. There's a great article about the making of this album on The Quietus by Matthew Lindsay.

Started into The Book Of Strange New Things by Michael Faber and it already has me enthralled, much like when I read Under The Skin.

Butler, Anderson and the gang kept me company as I played with experiments in geometry and typography.

This is created with a single row noise pattern which I then replicate many times, each one using the number of the replication as a seed for the noise, then creating outlines from the noise pattern.

Things get interesting when that image is used as a texture on a noise based geometry structure.

That then inspired me to make a component which made an alphabet soup of text when I then used as a texture in these geometry constructions combined with some NASA footage. Using noise to create different UV maps for each plane meant it kept things interesting. Because this uses instancing on the GPU, I had 10,000 objects, all running at 60fps in real-time.