It is the 8th of January and I have just had my first client meeting about next xmas Ho ho ho

Well it's been great knowing you all, but I have a Steam Deck now so I doubt I'll have time to hang out anymore…

No, that's not how date arithmetic works

My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire […]

I have finished #strangerthings and am feeling totes emosh

I've read Claire North's "84K" over xmas. It is not a very xmassy book. It is bleak and terrible and compelling. Hard recommend if you want something that lays bare the modern ghastliness of humanity

Everyone likes to think David Bowie could do no wrong but, love him as I do, I think it’s important we remember that he recorded Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy with Bing Crosby – certainly the worst Xmas song ever made

Less xmassy, but just as much fun, I’m also having a go at a new idea for making fairy wings…

Playing with snowflake-ish things for xmas #flitterlang

Am on me ‘olidays now in the north of Engerland. It is the kind of perfectly grey seaside weather that I love

Actually, that is a genuinely good idea…

Today I am rushing north to the ancestral homeland because of a family emergency – wish me luck!

I am attempting to finish making a sun today out of willow. Very much following the "keep adding sticks until it looks right" approach…

I've got a deinstall to do next month and it's not gonna need a van, so I've decided to try hiring an electric car. I've never driven an EV before, so hit me up with any essential advice/gotchas/oh-shit-you've-made-a-mistake you have… I have to drive London to Liverpool. The distance is […]

Shit! ZipCar are pulling out of the UK! This is a fucking ball-ache: I have come to completely rely on being able to pick up a vehicle (most often vans) at short notice on the street round here. A real gut punch to reducing car ownership Are there any realistic alternatives? Enterprise Car […]

I am experimenting with making paper, illuminated mushrooms for a primary school workshop tomorrow

Off to see my mate Waterflower at New River Studios tonight if anybody I know is also going https://newriverstudios.com/event/waterflower-m-l-deathman-kylie-monologue/ #livemusic

I am almost finished with xmas now (which, I should point out, I have been working on since January…) so this afternoon is all about EMF!

Oh yay! New problem to deal with: we've gone from about 500 DNS queries a day on the #outputarts domain earlier in the year to an average of about 4000 per day over the last couple of months, and an extraordinary 24,000 queries in one day last week Our work is absolutely not that popular, so […]

The Alpaca festival (on algorithmic patterns in the creative arts) aftermovie and photography now live on our website ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/

In more serious news, today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the beginning of the UN's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism #outputarts recently worked with survivors to produce a […]

So today's fuck-ups have included ordering 5 rolls of the wrong kind of tape for something I urgently need to finish today, and dropping my nice folding stanley knife down the toilet How's your day going?

Hunting round the studio to figure out where I left my cup of tea and I realise that I did not, in fact, make any…

I have, perhaps unwisely, decided to go to a kid's birthday costume party this weekend as Quetzalcoatl. Now madly trying to make a feathered snake headdress…

A significant portion of today has been spent coaching one of the onsite teams in rewiring one of our artworks back to the way it started before the warehouse team inexplicably rewired it to a way it absolutely wasn’t suppose to be. Had to step through a video frame by frame to figure out what […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Well, the time when we put the stars back up anyway #outputarts #lightart

The #outputarts website consists of a few dozen pages in total. It changes only when we publish info on a new art project every few months or so. So why are the same AI crawlers hoovering up the website *multiple times per day*! Honestly, I don't even care if you train your AI on my meanderings […]

Just had a SATA SSD fail on me. Was kind of annoyed until I realised that it's 11 years old

OK, so hear me out here: PaaS – Pockets as a Service. You pay me monthly to have pockets…

Been installing today! New work Shatter is now in place at Dunham Massey in Altrincham ready for the Xmas light trail. You don’t get any proper pictures of it until the show opens cos of embargo! #outputarts #lightart #installationart

25 years after abandoning my PhD studies in partial evaluation, I now seem to spend about one third of my waking hours thinking about partial evaluation

Sometimes I just feel so bone tired at having to adult every day. May clock off early and buy some sweeties on the way home…

Reading a conservation report on the impacts of artificial lighting on bats this morning in preparation for making a set of our baubles bat-friendly… #outputarts #installationart #lightart

Demonstration of the careful work-in-progress management for which I am famed #outputarts #inthestudio #installationart

This is the second time in their life that I’ve remade these heart fairy lights. I love them too much to throw them away ❤️ Last time I swapped the bulbs for LEDs and kept the original 24V AC transformer. This time I’m swapping to 5V DC so I can use an old USB wart

In my experience, tents seem to be mostly enlarged to accommodate fascists

Lets be honest, we've all already bought all the arduinos we'll ever need

Woo! The @alpaca talks are all up for your viewing pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxqmZjMvoVzw773-Fo9ajkujFfOThuFOP Looking forward to catching up on the second weekend, which I missed. I have forced myself to watch my own Flitter talk back and it is not as bad as it felt […]

Phew! Ill-advised Nextcloud upgrade just made me glad, once again, for ZFS auto-snapshots and rollback…

Ran a workshop on Wednesday at a nearby residential care home making Ojo de Dios using wool scraps and leftover bits of willow – great fun and really lovely results from a simple and meditative process #weaving #communityart #OjoDeDios

The cutting has begun for the next big project. This tabletop will be wrecked by the time I’m finished. Still, “eggs, omelettes” as Andy always says… #outputarts #inthestudio #installationart

Woohoo! Just managed to get tickets to see five films at the London Film Festival. Sadly, the 6th that we wanted to see is sold out across all three showings already (tickets went on sale to the general public one hour ago…) #bfi #Londonfilmfestival #lff25

New achievement unlocked! I am now old enough to require two pairs of glasses with different prescriptions

This morning i made a paper record with Jo Kazuhiro at Alpaca. Very cool concept: drawing the groove in Inkscape and then etching it into card with a cutting plotter. #alpaca2025

It’s almost time! I am in Sheffield for the Alpaca conference and festival. I’ll be talking about Flitter this afternoon. You’ll be pleased to hear that I have now finished my slides, but have not yet got my talk down to 15 minutes… #alpaca2025 #flitterlang

Sheffield, I am in you! Looking forward to @alpaca tomorrow

Practicing alchemy in the studio today! #outputarts #inthestudio #installationart

Shit’s getting serious: I’ve had to break out the big tabletop… #outputarts #inthestudio #lightart

If you carefully look inside it, Alpaca festival is made up of over 42+ incredible artists ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/artists/

Oh, hey! In other news: I keep forgetting to say that I'm talking about my visuals language Flitter at the @alpaca conference in three weeks https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/conference/ I haven't thought about what I"m going to say yet, so if you're going and have ideas about what you'd […]