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Month March 2009

50 Things I Want to Learn

My friend Pippa is strong and driven. Well, that’s how she comes across; she freely admits to having all the same flaws as us ordinary mortals in person, but actually getting to hear her say that in person can be tricky. Why? Because she’s one of those people with enormous amounts of energy who actually [...]

The Engines of Our Ingenuity (book review)

I’m doing a lot of reading for the course at the moment. I’ve been reading a lot of different books that tie into my main project, and these academic books aren’t always a gripping read. Sometimes I find that they aren’t even that relevant to my subject, they just have all the correct buzzwords on [...]

Data Mining Yourself as Artistic Practice

After my presentation for DMS8002 (the Basic Techniques module that I’m doing on my course) it was suggested to me that using my coursework as a platform to generate visualisations actually means that – to some extent – the artwork I’m creating is a reflection upon the work I’m doing for my major module.
This reminded [...]

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Here’s my thing. basic-techniques-500_1

Recent Developments in Fun

This weekend, over at Newcastle’s Maker Faire, I heard that the guys from the Arduino Project were planning something new. Well, according to a post over at Lady Ada’s site, this is it:

Wow. That’s one big card. I don’t have a use for something like this, but the picture turned up on a robotics forum, [...]

Let a Thousand James Hugonin Paintings Bloom

James Hugonin is an artist who lives in Northumbria, and makes paintings that reflect his surroundings by taking the predominant colour for each day and painting a square in that colour. This is very procedural art, and therefore it lends itself very well to make a computer program that does the same thing.
This would probably [...]

Processing Exercise – Click, Mortal!

This is a small amusement (it’s not a game, it’s too stupid) where you click the mouse to make something happen. This stems from Jamie asking us how we could make the exercise of drawing a five-pointed pentagram ‘more evil’. Actually, correct me if I’m wrong, but I do believe that (in the West) the [...]

Super Supervisory Meeting

Recently, I had a meeting with both my supervisors and the two lecturers who run my course. This slightly-scary meeting was labelled in my diary as “super supervisory meeting”. These are my notes from that meeting.
(click for more notes)

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