making_things
Curators of the internet
The delightful web
2021-05-03
– 2022-09-28Physical infrastructure
2022-09-24Innovation
Side order of progress studies now I guess
2014-07-27
– 2022-09-24Free content
Raiding history for clip art
2014-08-31
– 2022-09-23Generative art with language+diffusion models
2022-09-16Eye/head-tracking input
Mousing using my face
2022-09-15Timeless works of art
Aesthetics as a conditional average treatment effect
2015-01-12
– 2022-09-04Scattering transforms
2022-03-16
– 2022-08-31Scientific writing
In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice
2014-12-31
– 2022-08-28Video editing
2020-04-23
– 2022-08-15Cohousing in Australia
Plus other low-cost, low-tedium options for secure habitation somewhere
2021-09-25
– 2022-08-06Editing images
Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness
2018-10-16
– 2022-08-06Urbanism
Stuff about cities
2014-12-25
– 2022-08-06Data dashboards and ML demos
On assuring the client that you are doing something data-sciency because it looks like in the movies
2020-03-12
– 2022-07-28Music gear
Pragmatic digital amps and microphones
2014-08-26
– 2022-07-19Astroturf and artificial reefs
On the sometimes-fungibility of status and cash in the realm of cultural cachet
2016-01-13
– 2022-07-03Real estate economics
Rentiers and the future
2022-01-24
– 2022-06-30Transcoding
Digital recordings and converting between them.
2020-04-23
– 2022-05-30Spatial data in R
2021-03-21
– 2022-05-24PDF, Portable Document Format
How we may use a thousand dollar computer to simulate a one cent piece of paper with zero day exploits
2018-06-03
– 2022-05-17Linux audio
Making sound by banging rocks together 44 thousand times per second
2018-04-23
– 2022-05-01Synchrony between things, especially organisms
Entrainment, synchronisation, dancing together
2014-11-03
– 2022-04-23Myths
Aspirationally self-fulfilling narratives
2022-02-20
– 2022-04-07Playing music on the computer
Continuing difficulty thereof
2014-11-26
– 2022-04-04Website cheat codes
CSS, SCSS, SASS, HTML, UX, Web 2.0, RFC, Yeah you know me
2014-12-23
– 2022-03-06Sufficiently good hedonism
Tractable trade-offs between limited time and limited cash and limited imagination for the most happiness
2020-06-23
– 2022-02-27Symbolic and substantive insurrections
Sovereign citizens, LARPing insurgency, institution building
2022-02-20
– 2022-02-27Audio sample management
2021-09-14
– 2022-02-19Differentiable learning of automata
2016-10-14
– 2022-02-19Stylus input
2017-04-17
– 2022-02-14Visual node based programming
a.k.a. dataflow graphs, patchers, visual coding, flow-based programming
2020-06-13
– 2022-02-12Outsourcing, applied
2021-02-27
– 2022-02-05Visualising geospatial data
Geographic information systems, or, as we in the trade refer to them, “maps”
2016-07-04
– 2022-02-02Here’s how I would do art with machine learning if I had to
2016-06-06
– 2022-02-01DIY
Artisanal poverty, expressive incompetence, contrarianism on a budget, hobbyism in the open, handicraft fandoms
2018-03-26
– 2022-01-20Faust, the DSP language
2016-08-22
– 2022-01-16Stickers
Printouts that you do not lose because they are adhered to a very large thing
2020-01-31
– 2022-01-05Music software frameworks
and programming languages, for music
2016-08-22
– 2022-01-05Top influences of 2021
Content that changed my life this year, and which also might change yours
2021-12-25Sydney food suppliers
Practical bulk budget Sydney gourmet
2016-10-15
– 2021-11-25Digital nostalgia
Pixel art, geocities chic, cyberpunk retrofuturism
2020-05-15
– 2021-11-09Editing images with machine learning
Chinks in my armour of learned Photoshop helplessness
2018-10-16
– 2021-11-02Fashion
Theory and practice of hip garments
2020-07-10
– 2021-10-27Neural music synthesis
2016-01-15
– 2021-10-14Printing
Offline backups that do not need batteries
2018-10-03
– 2021-10-11Narrative
2019-10-27
– 2021-10-10The property market is pollution
Or: hunting endangered big game in dwindling habitat
2021-05-26
– 2021-09-25Arpeggiate by numbers
Workaday automatic composition and sequencing
2015-01-07
– 2021-09-20Fonts
Typefaces I need, which is to say, for web pages and scientific papers
2016-01-11
– 2021-09-18Software audio routers
Patch cables for the cable-shy
2017-06-03
– 2021-09-08Software video routers
2017-06-03
– 2021-09-08Recurrent neural networks
2016-06-16
– 2021-09-06Design grammars
2011-05-30
– 2021-08-09Image search
2021-08-02Organising a photo collection
2020-01-03
– 2021-08-02Monetizing my music
2015-05-03
– 2021-07-07Organising a music collection
Also guessing missing metadata
2020-01-03
– 2021-06-14DJing
On encouraging people to listen to your living room playlist by demanding that they pay for it
2015-02-02
– 2021-06-14Where next Sydney freaks?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26What is your Sydney housing endgame?
2021-04-11
– 2021-05-26Open Source (mostly software)
On published schematics for cheap objects
2017-03-31
– 2021-04-09Colour
2015-04-07
– 2021-03-24Technopoetics
2016-07-26
– 2021-03-12Auditory features
descriptors, maps, representations for audio
2019-11-13
– 2021-01-14Audiovisuals
Synesthetic and other cross-media audio stunts
2020-10-26Homo ludens
Play
2014-10-29
– 2020-09-08Music software
2014-11-11
– 2020-09-07Contemporary ethnomusicology
Global bass, World Music 2.0 etc
2015-04-02
– 2020-08-22Bookkeeping
2019-03-14
– 2020-08-20Audiobooks
Long form podcasts
2014-11-11
– 2020-05-27Screen capture and screen casting
2016-10-20
– 2020-05-19New-wave jigsaw puzzles
2018-12-14
– 2020-05-13AV controller interfaces
2019-12-10
– 2020-05-11Supercollider
2011-06-20
– 2020-04-10Analysis/resynthesis of audio
2016-01-15
– 2020-04-09Teaching computers to write music
2016-06-06
– 2020-03-25Graphic design for the vexed
2018-10-16
– 2020-03-23Visualising data
Philosophy and psychology of good plots
2016-07-04
– 2020-03-19HTML for haters
Plus also CSS.
2016-01-04
– 2020-02-24Psychoacoustics
2016-08-15
– 2020-01-28Media metadata management and editing
2014-11-27
– 2020-01-03Controllerism
Making thing happen by waving your arms about on stage
2014-11-17
– 2019-12-10Audio source separation
2019-11-04
– 2019-11-26Tunings
2015-10-29
– 2019-11-18Machine listening
Statistical models for audio
2014-10-10
– 2019-11-12ISMIR 2019
Music Nerds in Delft
2019-11-04
– 2019-11-09Smartypants cities
2014-12-25
– 2019-11-05Generative art, creative coding, procedural design
Teaching my computer to make prettier mistakes than me
2014-09-08
– 2019-10-31Rhythm
Especially for generative music
2014-11-03
– 2019-10-23Automatic programming
2016-10-14
– 2019-09-11Installations (in galleries etc)
2016-08-21
– 2019-07-13Weaponised design
2014-10-10
– 2019-03-11Csound
a less irritating audio programming language
2017-03-06
– 2019-03-07Gesture recognition
2014-10-17
– 2018-11-12The right words
That which I substitute with the long words
2017-06-15
– 2018-11-0710 years of the Living Thing!
2018-10-03In Wild Air
2017-07-02Musical metrics and manifolds
2014-09-26
– 2017-03-27Synestizer
2014-11-04
– 2017-01-18Concatenative synthesis
2015-12-13
– 2017-01-16Greatest hits
2016-11-19
– 2016-12-12Iterated function systems
2014-08-14
– 2016-06-06Art LISP
2015-01-13
– 2015-12-20Parking sun
2015-11-24
– 2015-11-24Pattern machine
2011-06-27
– 2015-11-24Ensemble Tikoro collaboration
2015-11-12Hiteklotek and Lotekno
Sundanese remixes I’m involved in
2015-11-05
– 2015-11-07New media art
2015-01-12
– 2015-01-12Time machine 2012
2012-09-09Dorkbot group show 2012
2012-03-10Morandini and Blamey
2011-08-27Dorkbot group show 2011
2011-04-15Feral
2010-12-02The after party for the American Century
2010-06-17SXSW from the gutter
2010-03-17Transmediale 2010
2010-03-15Mellifera
a show about VR bees I reviewed
2009-04-28The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie robot
2009-03-21Jakarta Biennale 2009 (Realtime Magazine)
2009-02-28Jakarta Biennale 2009 (Sentap! Magazine)
2009-02-05Dancing machine
2008-09-30