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- 03.05.26 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2026
Monday morning saw us head to Düsseldorf for Beyond Tellerrand, celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, for which I’d created all the …
- 26.04.26 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 …
- 19.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 19th April 2026
After picking up an original 1977 pressing of The Strangler's debut album Rattus Norvegicus from my local record shop, it got me thinking …
- 16.04.26 Creating Organic Lines and Tubes in Touch Designer using POPs
A quick post to show a technique I use to create organic like lines in Touch Designer using POP operators. I won't go into every step but …
- 12.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 12th April 2026
Schubert’s imagination was unusually literary. Words released music in him: poems about desire, love, loss, solitude, the longing for rest; …
- 05.04.26 That Was The Week That Was — 5th April 2026
Back in 2019 I created the graphics and titles for Beyond Tellerrand — the design event run by my friend Marc Thiele. Seven years on I'm …
- 29.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 29th March 2026
Just a visual update this week.
- 22.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd March 2026
I started the week playing around with some strange attractors. Kate Ertmann wrote a great post about the beauty of strange attractors, and …
- 15.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th March 2026
We’re currently experiencing some issues setting up the Google Meet call, so we’ll be hosting the meeting on our platform, Riverside …
- 08.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 8th March 2026
This week I've been deep in the weeds as I work on expanding some of the systems I use especially in respect of machine-learning. In the …
- 01.03.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st March 2026
"What is the elementary particle of sudden understanding? It is the clariton. Any scientist will recognise the “Aha!” moment when this …
- 22.02.26 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 …
- 15.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 15th February 2026
Lots of type experiments this week, created in Houdini and also Touch Designer. In Houdini the minpos() method is great for constraining …
- 01.02.26 That Was The Week That Was — 1st February 2026
"Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a …
- 25.01.26 That Was The Week That Was – 25th January 2026
Started the week off in a nice way with news that Cinema Redux: Metropolis had been acquired by a collector through Gazelli Art House. …
- 18.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 18th January 2026
Somehow I had managed to completely miss that a new version of Touch Designer was released in October last year, complete with a new …
- 11.01.26 That Was The Week That Was — 11th January 2026
Whilst there was much noise above where I worked in the studio at home — with the roofers putting a new roof on the house — it was still …
- 18.12.25 Create Centre Points for Primitives in TouchDesigner
Just putting this here as it may come in handy for others. I saw someone asking how to do this on the TouchDesigner forum, how to find the …
- 23.11.25 That Was The Week That Was — 23rd November 2025
Following an email from David Connor, Tutor for Architecture + Design at the University of Salford, I found myself on a train heading to …
- 09.04.25 Local LLMs
Local LLMs. Inspired by the @entagma tutorial by Christopher Kopic on using local LLMs inside Houdini, I made this little experiment inside …
- 12.10.24 Title sequence for a contagion type film
Title sequence for a contagion type film. Movement is created in Touch Designer, but using manual control using a midi controller which …
- 12.10.24 Experiments with type in Runway Gen 3
Experiments with type in Runway Gen 3. I took a video of my earlier Touch Designer created type cut-up system and played around with it in …
- 24.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 24th May 2020
In the course of researching an approach to creating a new piece of client work, in WebGL, I searched around for something node / graph …
- 01.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 1st March 2020
Notch is something I've been meaning to get into, ever since my friend Marc Theile mentioned it to me last year. As a fan of node based …
- 26.01.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th January 2020
With a new commercial piece of work starting next week, which will see me working in Processing, my thoughts turned to having to switch …
- 09.09.19 Setting up a midi controller for TouchDesigner
Setting up a midi controller for TouchDesigner This is great, straight-forward, tutorial on setting up a midi controller for use with …
- 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 …
- 07.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 7th July 2019
This week I was mainly working in TouchDesigner, getting stuff finished for an exciting meeting happening the following week. One of the …
- 02.07.19 Modifying TouchDesigner Table DATs
This drove me a little crazy for a good hour, so I thought I'd make a note of this for myself and maybe for others. I had a table DAT in …
- 01.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 30th June 2019
Even though I had just signed the contract for my next project, there was still a few things to fall into place before I could actually …