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
- Books
- 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
/2024
- 11.09.24 Thank you Charlotte Kent (@lucyscribbles) for the wonderful article on the Eno…
Thank you Charlotte Kent (@lucyscribbles) for the wonderful article on the Eno generative documentary for @brooklynrail. As ever,…
- 30.08.24 Packing the print of In Harmony: Brooklyn for @entrup
- 27.08.24 Side rails
Side rails.
- 25.08.24 Data needs poetry
Data needs poetry.
- 23.08.24 Indeterminate Contours
Indeterminate Contours.
- 22.08.24 Art in the After-Culture by Ben Davis
A fantastic series of essays about the relationship and reshaping of art with politics, technology, society and culture and how we might…
- 13.08.24 3D Extrusion
3D Extrusion. Using @josefpelz T3D to extrude the once flat shapes.
- 12.08.24 Grids
Grids. More play with this system. Controlling snapping to a grid and amount of objects.
- 12.08.24 The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère
The main character wakes one morning and for a joke shaves off his moustache. When nobody notices, and even worse they deny he ever had a…
- 08.08.24 Shards
Shards. Continuing to explore this system. This type swapping out the typeface for a typeface created with the Fontastic library in…
- 07.08.24 Using @josefpelz T3D to take the typography system into 3D
Using @josefpelz T3D to take the typography system into 3D.
- 05.08.24 Typography cut-up system
Typography cut-up system.
- 02.08.24 The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
A work of fiction based on real events and real people, an incredible book that will fascinate and terrify in equal measure. Centres…
- 31.07.24 The Art of Cybersecurity (2019) As this was featured in the history of…
The Art of Cybersecurity (2019) As this was featured in the history of generative art timeline created by @lerandomart_ I thought I’d post t…
- 30.07.24 Early work-in-progress developing a generative system for a new series of works…
Early work-in-progress developing a generative system for a new series of works to be published later this year.
- 30.07.24 Ahead of the reveal of Descendants Gen 2 I’ve been exploring the animation p…
Ahead of the reveal of Descendants Gen 2 I’ve been exploring the animation possibilities that are now possible with @runwayapp and their G…
- 27.07.24 Rsync command to copy files and log errors
Had to move my archive to another disk recently and rather than use copy in the Mac Finder, I prefer to use rsync in the Terminal as it’s m…
- 25.07.24 Plotter Vision
Saw this in Marius Watz’s Twitter feed and wanted to make a note of it. "plotter.vision is a single-serving website that lets you u…
- 25.07.24 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
This is a remarkable book in so many ways, not least it was written by Mary Shelley as a response to the challenge of writing a horror…
- 23.07.24 13 Journeys Through Time and Space
Beautifully designed book which you can pick-up and read one or two chapters that will probably blow your mind.…
- 22.07.24 Busy day today filming in the studio for a forthcoming documentary about my…
Busy day today filming in the studio for a forthcoming documentary about my life as a generative artist.
- 22.07.24 How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Had the pleasure of meeting Jenny Odell a few years ago when we were both speaking at the same conference. Immediately afterwards I bought…
- 20.07.24 How to be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz is a force of nature and this book is every bit as honest and funny as the man himself. …
- 20.07.24 The Flâneur by Edmund White
I’ve always liked the idea of the Flâneur – someone who observes urban life, wandering around a city without purpose. This is a delightful book…
- 19.07.24 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Fascinating, depressing, insightful, terrifying read. Don't read this if you want to feel better about the world.…
- 19.07.24 The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
Picked-up this 1910 edition of this beautiful homage to the bee, written like a work of poetry, going beyond the bee and covering all life.…
- 19.07.24 Less by Patrick Grant
Absolutely loved Patrick Grant’s “Less". A wonderful, important call-to-arms about how we need to stop trying to find happiness thr…
- 14.07.24 Thank you Liverpool for the incredible reception of Eno last night…
Thank you Liverpool for the incredible reception of Eno last night @fact_liverpool. It was extra special to have the film screen at my fave…
- 12.07.24 Two days in-a-row with features on the Eno documentary in @nytimes including…
Two days in-a-row with features on the Eno documentary in @nytimes including Critics Pick. This film continues to surprise and delight and…
- 09.07.24 Signing and sending out more Descendants prints
Signing and sending out more Descendants prints. 2nd generation coming soon!