That Was The Week That Was — 26th April 2026

This week was spent finishing the titles for the upcoming Beyond Tellerrand conference, adding the music created by Tobi Lessnow. I also started playing with the Filter POP which Sarv released for free. As he points out, this is very much the missing operator from the POP family, allowing you to create time based transitions of any POP attribute all on the GPU. It works brilliantly and allowed me to add some nice tweens for some of the UV and texture displacement stuff I had been working on.

On the Sunday we attended our first Mid-Century Market in the town of Chester and had a great time browsing all the vintage furniture and other objects for sale. As we looked at some 1950s cocktail shakers, Lisa pointed out the table they were sat on; a fibreglass futuristic looking affair, with a glass top, all on wheels. We instantly loved it and asked more about it. Designed by the French designer Marc Held in the 1970s for Prisunic, looking online the average second-hand price was £400—£600. The marked price was £80 and after some negotiation we grabbed it for the great price of £70!

It's interesting to me that if you showed that table to someone they would probably say it's futuristic even though it was created in the 1970s. What happened to that vision of the future, that we saw in things like Space 1999, 2001, Logan's Run and the like. Do people find that style too clinical or was it simply watered down and merged into Ikea's version of modernism?