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Earlier in the year I produced some illustrations of BiLE, Glitch Lich and Benoît and the Mandelbrots for a mini booklet about Network Music Festival. The whole magazine, which includes the mini booklet, has recently been released as Something In The Water: Something In The Water is a magazine that delves into the past,…
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For my set for From Digbeth With Hammers at BOYD 8 I was required to display their logo on screen. This sounds like it should be a relatively easy task, but their logo consisting of four lines of text presented some interest problems. In Pure Data there’s three objects you can use to display…
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Since November 2011 I’ve been providing visuals for First Fold Records’ monthly Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD) events. This sees me working with the headline acts to create visuals tailored to their performance. I often do a recording of the sets, which you can see on my YouTube channel. For BOYD 8 I did…
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On Saturday 28th April I took part in the Papergirl Birmingham Distribution Ride. As explained in my previous blog post on the subject Papergirl is about delivering artwork on your bike around the city to an unsuspecting public. Earlier in the week there was an exhibition of the work. Craig Bush made this awesome…
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Although it was over a month ago some videos from BYOB Birmingham have popped up on t’interweb. The first video is by Richard C Pete Ashton took all of the photos that exhibitors and attendees took and made this video. The photos are looped at 30fps 6 times over a minute, zooming at 400%…
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BYOB Birmingham happened on Friday 16th March and it was a great success! For those who like statistics, in the end the event had 18 artists (plus videos from VIVID’s archives), 22 beamers, and nearly 200 people attend. My thanks for making the night awesome go to: Flatpack Festival, which has been going for…
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Last month I attended the Co-Position meeting in Brussels of the Libre Graphics Research Unit. I’ve already talked about one of the work sessions in a bit of depth. Today I was alerted that an article I wrote for Furtherfield that gives an overview of the meeting went live! How can designers and programmers…
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One of the hot topics at the Lbire Graphics Research Unit Co-Position meeting came from the Visual Versioning work session. The work session focused on creating mockups for ways to improve their Visual Culture Git Viewer. This tool goes some way to addressing the issue of not being able to visualise the contents of…
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If you weren’t able to make it out to the streets of London in February to catch the
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Check out this video promo for the PixelJam demoscene party happening at Notacon from 12-15 April this year. The trailer features contributions from myself, JODI.ORG, A Bill Miller, Recyclism, Jessica Westbrook and Morgan Higby-Flowers. These were then de/re:compiled by jonCates into this awesome video! 8)