Walk in the park, look at the sky: collected thoughts, processes and observations made during the course of making things
- 3D
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- adobe
- Altoids
- Analog
- Arduino
- Automator
- Backup
- Bash
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- 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
/2018
- 31.12.18 Lynne Ramsey talks about making You Were Never Really Here
I love Lynne Ramsey's work and this is a great interview about the process of making the incredible You Were Never Really Here.
- 31.12.18 My go-to pen: the Caran d’Ache 849
No matter how many pens I try, I always come back to this Swiss made classic. A beautifully simple design, the aluminium case is not too…
- 27.12.18 Bruce Sterling — How to be Futuristic
Bruce Sterling — How to be Futuristic Love this insightful, humorous talk at the bar of The Long Now from Bruce Sterling.
- 19.12.18 I recently cleared my desk of unnecessary things, such as the pot of pens that…
These are: a jewellers magnifier — great for reading wherever small print maybe, an Olfa Magna touch knife — use this every day for opening stu…
- 13.12.18 Reversing Selected Lines in Vim
This was something I needed to do recently, having listed some events on my site but then later realising they were in the reverse order of…
- 13.12.18 More scenes from the cutting-room floor
#generative #processing
- 12.12.18 Scenes from the cutting-room floor
- 09.12.18 Using Transferwise Borderless Accounts To Save Money When Getting Paid by…
Probably like you, my clients are spread across the globe. Even though home is a Victorian seaside town in the North of England, the beauty…
- 08.12.18 Gitbot
I used to have this old toy robot make sounds whenever anyone visited my site, but it was a little annoying. Today I reconfigured it so it…
- 28.11.18 Scrubbing the floors instead — why I no longer worry about keeping up with the l…
I used to worry about keeping up with the state-of-the-art; I used to worry whether I knew enough about that latest technology that had…
- 28.11.18 My Altoids Tin for Travel Emergencies
Wherever I travel, this battered Altoids tin comes with me. Open it and you'll find various objects that can and have come in handy over…
- 27.11.18 My Battered Travel Emergency Altoids Tin
This is the Altoids tin that’s been travelling around the world with me for many years. Inside are things I’ve used, or other people have use…
- 27.11.18 A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now'
A sound-led dive into deep time and ‘the long now' Beautifully made radio program from the BBC about deep time and the long now.
- 27.11.18 Data flows
#datavisualization #generative
- 25.11.18 So much good stuff in this Brian Eno news letter from 1974
So much good stuff in this Brian Eno news letter from 1974 Eno talks about idea generation and the danger of using techniques we already…
- 24.11.18 Fresh — app to show recently updated files — one of my most used apps
Fresh — app to show recently updated files — one of my most used apps Whenever I get a new Mac, Fresh is one of the first things I install. Wit…
- 21.11.18 Sneak peek of the interface / system I’ve built for this latest piece of work
Building my own systems is a big part of my process. Doing this means I have control of every aspect, creating a tool to create the work…
- 20.11.18 Using Vimwiki as a simple, synced, note taking system
For many years I've been using Evernote to store notes, code snippets, found things from the web and a whole lot of other stuff. I like it,…
- 20.11.18 Environmental Undulations
#generative #processing
- 18.11.18 Exporting Hires Transparent Bitmaps from Processing
One of the many things I love about Processing, especially within the commercial work I do, is its ability to export high resolution images…
- 18.11.18 Exclude files from git without committing changes to .gitignore
Exclude files from git without committing changes to .gitignore This is a really great way to ignore certain files in a git repository that…
- 15.11.18 traces.vim — range, pattern and substitute preview for Vim
traces.vim — range, pattern and substitute preview for Vim I try to keep my plugins to the bare essentials in Vim, but this one made it t…
- 14.11.18 KeyCastr — an open-source keystroke visualiser
KeyCastr — an open-source keystroke visualiser This is really handy little app that you could use in conjunction with LICEcap to make quick s…
- 11.11.18 Vim Keyboard Covers for Macbook and IMac
Vim Keyboard Covers for Macbook and IMac As a self-confessed Vim obsessive, I’m looking forward to getting this very handy Vim keyboard o…
- 07.11.18 A Simple Email to Blog Gateway for Kirby
When I write a blog post on this site it begins by creating a Kirby formatted text file inside a newly created directory which I then…
- 09.10.18 House of Z
House of Zs://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80200744 Fascinating documentary on the rise and fall and rise again of Zac Posen, fashion…
- 08.10.18 ShellCheck — finds bugs in your shell scripts
ShellCheck — finds bugs in your shell scripts Handy tool for finding bugs in shell scripts.
- 01.10.18 Muslim rule and compass: the magic of Islamic geometric design
Muslim rule and compass: the magic of Islamic geometric design
- 01.10.18 Super Tiny Social Icons
Super Tiny Social Icons Really tiny (under 1KB) SVG based social icons.
- 01.10.18 Buckminster Fuller and Comprehensive Design
Buckminster Fuller and Comprehensive Design "What humankind required, he came to believe, was an individual who could recognize the…