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- 21.08.19 Work-in-progress
Everything starts with a simple sketch. The act of scribbling things is directly connected, I believe, to how thoughts are formed, starting…
- 18.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — August 18th 2019
As Getz / Gilberto dominated the turntable this week, I continued to send out the Manifesto for Myself prints, only now the print arrives…
- 14.08.19 Adobe Alternatives
No longer will you find Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator on any of the Macs I use. You will find Premiere but that's only kept around in case…
- 11.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — August 11th 2019
My new print — Manifesto for Myself — arrived on the Tuesday from Harvey Lloyd Screens and looked fantastic. It's an A5 two colour screen pri…
- 09.08.19 Two Tortillas
Last night myself and Lisa were watching the fourth episode of Remarkable Places to Eat, a BBC series with First Dates' Fred Sirieix, which…
- 06.08.19 That Was The Week That Was — 4th August 2019
The Entagma Houdini tutorials on Vimeo have been a great resource for my Houdini learnigs, and so I thought it was about time to stump up…
- 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…
- 31.07.19 Organic Frame
- 28.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 28th July 2019
At the beginning of the week I put together the first round of images for this latest client work. These were very much work in progress — t…
- 28.07.19 Creating small experiments
One of the things I do whenever I have some downtime is explore or learn a new technique and then save that out so I may use it in the…
- 25.07.19 Tapering Curves and Lines in Houdini
A quick screen cast on how to control the width of a line or a curve over its length, using a B-Spline curve interface. Also includes a tip…
- 23.07.19 The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life
The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life From Issue 74 of Nautilus on Networks, the life and work of Nils Aall Barricelli, a…
- 21.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 21st July 2019
I started in earnest on a new client commission — creating four images using data, for a US based client. As usual everything starts out u…
- 16.07.19 VEX for artists · kiryha/Houdini Wiki · GitHub
VEX for artists · kiryha/Houdini Wiki · GitHub Great resource for starting out with Vex In Houdini.
- 15.07.19 Overwhelmed by your to-do lists? Try this simple solution | Oliver Burkeman |…
Overwhelmed by your to-do lists? Try this simple solution | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian I use a similar system to this,…
- 14.07.19 That Was The Week That Was — 14th July 2019
This week saw Lisa and myself take an impromptu break to the city of Copenhagen. We're both fans of Danish design so we were both looking…
- 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…
- 04.07.19 The Institute For Figuring // Online Exhibit: Mathematical Paper Folding
The Institute For Figuring // Online Exhibit: Mathematical Paper Folding Once tried to do some Origami, and it’s bloody hard. Love this k…
- 03.07.19 Making it up as you go along: how your brain improvises
Making it up as you go along: how your brain improvises Interesting piece in The Guardians on how certain parts of the brain go quiet when…
- 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…
- 02.07.19 A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him | Music | The Guardian
A teenage Charlie Parker has a cymbal thrown at him | Music | The Guardian I first heard about this story when I watched Whiplash, though I…
- 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…
- 28.06.19 Loving the shape of this as it continues to grow
Love me a good node based interface for making stuff.
- 24.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 23rd June 2019
It felt like I had put a sign across my website to say "open for business", as this week seemed to be all about new work…
- 19.06.19 Rename a local and remote branch in git
Rename a local and remote branch in git https://multiplestates.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/rename-a-local-and-remote-branch-in-git/ Often…
- 18.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 16th June 2019
This week I started on a new client project — just s short three week one, but still very fun to be involved with. It's for energy supplier B…
- 16.06.19 How to tie a very useful Knot to know (i.e. for tying up things like bundles of…
How to tie a very useful Knot to know (i.e. for tying up things like bundles of newspapers etc). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVgas-i78Ak
- 09.06.19 Using Vex to automatically create groups of points from CSV data in Houdini
In my continuing adventures with Houdini I was playing around with this CSV file containing number of kills by James Bond in Bond movies — s…
- 09.06.19 ELECTRONIC POP FOR THE SURVEILLANCE ERA
ELECTRONIC POP FOR THE SURVEILLANCE ERA https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/electronic-pop-for-the-surveillance-era
- 09.06.19 That Was The Week That Was — 9th June 2019
Headed to Heidelberg on the Tuesday as I was speaking at a Trend Micro Partner Talk event the next morning. I was giving the keynote as…