Pete Hindle

Until earlier this week I had a dream of running away to Buenos Aires, but even the foreign office advises against that now. In that case, perhaps the traditional thing to do would be join the foreign legion. Perhaps they have an artist’s squadron I could join, where I can sit around drinking espressos and [...]

As part of my coursework, I’m creating a text analysis tool. The coursework also states that blog posts are part of the working progress. Therefore, if you’re not on my course or working with Processing in some form, I doubt the post would be interesting to you. What is the best way of storing a [...]

I’ve been juggling a lot recently. That’s the regular juggling pattern. It’s like learning to ride a bike; once you can do it, you can’t really forget it. That’s the reverse cascade. It’s quite fun. I think I found a name for this one somewhere on wikipedia, but I’ve lost that link for now. Notice [...]

There’s been a hiatus since my last post, so you’ll have to bear with me while I express myself without all the nice footnotes and links that I wanted to put in. I was quite unwell in Helsinki, so I didn’t actually manage to see a lot of the festival. I did, however, catch a [...]

I’ve just come back from Helsinki’s Pixelache festival. Rather than try and write some words about it right now, I’m just going to put up this slideshow from my Flickr set because I’m feeling a bit under the weather. I do have an idea for a longer written piece, but it’ll have to wait until [...]

Finland seems to be entirely decorated with objects from Ikea. It’s like somebody said “hej, we liked what you did with your house, here’s an enormous amount of money – please decorate the nation in the same style”. I even managed to find a cafe that had those green marzipan cakes that I’ve only ever [...]