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- 04.07.20 Creating Variable Length Trails in Houdini
Using the Trails SOP in Houdini makes it pretty trivial to create trails from points. However these trails will always have the same…
- 21.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 21st June 2020
A new piece of client work appeared this week in the form of a second commission from Trend Micro. Originally this was work for an event in…
- 14.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 14th June 2020
This week I've been exploring some ideas with Vellum — Houdini's soft body simulation system. It seemed my wobbly low-poly horse struck a n…
- 07.06.20 That Was The Week That Was — 7th June 2020
The notebook I ordered from Armorial arrived and it was very disappointing. The finish of the binding was very badly done, and in the…
- 01.06.20 From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange |…
From Germany to Detroit and back: how Kraftwerk forged an industrial exchange | Music | The Guardian
- 31.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 31st May 2020
Danielle Newnham published an interview with me as part of her Beyond Work series, looking at how founders and innovators have been coping…
- 30.05.20 The Rogue Experimenters | The New Yorker
The Rogue Experimenters | The New Yorker Fascinating piece in the New Yorker about D.I.Y.bio
- 29.05.20 Missing Sounds of New York: An Auditory Love Letter to New Yorkers | The New…
Missing Sounds of New York: An Auditory Love Letter to New Yorkers | The New York Public Library The New York Public Library has put…
- 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…
- 17.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 17th May 2020
MOPs is an open source toolkit for Houdini for motion design and is something I began to explore this week. The use of an offset ramp to…
- 10.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 10th May 2020
Love the work of Jacqueline Casey, especially all the posters she did when at MIT. Stunning work. The book of her posters is pretty hard to…
- 08.05.20 Podcasts — Field Recordings brings the outdoors indoors
Podcasts — Field Recordings brings the outdoors indoors https://amp.ft.com/content/552ae2f0-6a92-11ea-a6ac-9122541af204 Bren
- 03.05.20 That Was The Week That Was — 3rd May 2020
During the sixth week of lockdown I explored some sound reactive work in Houdini. I'd played around with this type of stuff before, and…
- 28.04.20 Plywood Sculpture | Eames Office
Plywood Sculpture | Eames Office https://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/plywood-sculpture/
- 26.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 26th April 2020
Lusted over the stationery made by Amorial. Like this quote from Freud about consideration when writing a letter: I consider it a good…
- 19.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 19th April 2020
Saw these Masuya Monakai notebooks, but so far have resisted clicking the add to cart button. Talking of notebooks, this piece in Fast…
- 12.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 12th April 2020
Sad to see both Computer Arts and Net Mag closing. Whilst I haven't bought it for a long time, in the early part of my career they were…
- 09.04.20 Texture Haven — wonderful collection of free 4K textures
Texture Haven — wonderful collection of free 4K textures One of my fave resources for high quality 4K textures.
- 09.04.20 Templatemaker.nl Great resource for making packaging nests. Via…
Templatemaker.nl Great resource for making packaging nests. Via @presentandcorrect This is a fantastic site for making custom nest…
- 05.04.20 That Was The Week That Was — 5th April 2020
During the second week of lock down, I started on a new idea, taking the colours from the final fight scene in Kill Bill Vol One and…
- 29.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 29th March 2020
First week of full lock-down following the announcement on the Monday night. Watching the address from Boris Johnson was certainly "a…
- 22.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 22nd March 2020
Last weekend we were meant to be in Paris, but of course we had to cancel due to COVID-19. We lost pretty much all our money, with the…
- 22.03.20 Knitted Arse
- 15.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 15th March 2020
Whilst sequences were rendering for this client video piece in 4K, we managed to steal away a few hours at the park — making sure to keep o…
- 14.03.20 Talk on going mouseless with Vim, Tmux, and Hotkeys
Talk on going mouseless with Vim, Tmux, and Hotkeys One of the best talks I’ve seen on the power of Vim.
- 11.03.20 Variable Mesh
- 10.03.20 Ceramic Noodles
- 08.03.20 That Was The Week That Was — 8th March 2020
This week I've been working towards delivery of the static images for my new Trend Micro commission. Last week I had gone too hard on brand…
- 03.03.20 Word of Mouth — Real Talk
Word of Mouth — Real Talk Wonderful episode of Word of Mouth about the science of conversation.
- 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…