A little more of the new project.

Little show update: Layering then handpainted and procedural textures. Here's a village pub from 1931.

Been away for the weekend, but here's some finished shader work. Its a mixture of overlaying shifting uvs, some sobel and kuwuhara, and then some clamped interpolated textures.

Had a little time away because of family illness, but here's an updated look at one of the shaders for These Lanes I Watch Into The Fog. Some palette work and modelling to do, but we're getting there. Thanks for bearing with. See you in 2026

Some new texture tests and animation instancing for the new show. Slowly but surely. Yes, I will fix the hands.

Finally getting round to remaking all the models and animations for These Lanes I Watch Into The Fog. Coming soon to a cost effective performance venue near you.

Had a bit chop at my website. Its got a bouncepage, a bit of a load time, and not much new information at the moment. But, hey, it's a living. More as we get it. Davidcallaghan.com.

This Government refused to stand up when they witnessed Genocide. Shameful cowardice or inhuman complicity that should follow each and every one of them around for the rest of their lives.

Had to postpone the shows this autumn. Apologies if you bought tickets. Back soon.

Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones

Having the refs mic'ed up has confirmed the thing I always knew. That the only phrase they say with any sense of authority is 'mum says you have to give me a turn with the controller'.

I'll be honest, San Pellegrino, if I open up someone's fridge and see that then I'd be 100% certain they're a serial killer.

I mostly work in realtime animation so up to this point I've mainly been making textures smaller to process faster. Besides a couple of months in my MA I've never really gone into shader maths before, so its cool to have a bit of a go.

On my lunch hour I had another little go at Cotton Wool, density + displacement maps, and a bit of maths etc. Bit too silky, not quite enough disruption as yet.

Finally getting down to actually understanding the maths behind height maps. Avoided it for years but the time has come. Also, trying to rid myself of all adobe poison so learning Da Vinci Resolve workarounds. Here's a bad thing I made as a test because the colour spaces are different. ENJOY.

Nearly twenty years since this record came out. I remember asking for it in Concepts record shop in Durham, only for the man to sigh, open the CD player and take it out. They only had one copy and he's been playing it on repeat. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Interviewer: do you own a labubu? Jimmy Stewart: a labubu!? I don't even know what the heck that is Guy operating the polygraph machine: he's lying Jimmy Stewart: now now now hang on a dang minute see

Me and the wife have been rewatching The Singing Detective, and wow, what great telly.

Let's be clear. This is nothing. Demonstrations with thousands or even tens of thousands are frequently entirely ignored. That the BBC chooses to put this on the front page of their news website is a political decision as to what positions to push.

'So, the Alexander Isak situation...' EDDIE HOWE: 'Please, please, can we talk about something else? How about our owners human rights violations?'

'and in the shadowless unclouded glare, deep blue above us fades to whiteness where, a misty sea line meets the wash of air'

Doing another WIP of These Lanes I Watch Into The Fog at Gael and Grain in Glasgow on 10.09.25. Tickets here: www.goodeggcomedy.co.uk/event-detail... No Peter at this one, just getting all the stand up/narrative/multimedia up to speed before he gets involved in the live shows.

Not wanting to confirm every casual acquaintances' diagnostic hunch, but I am currently in the process of making a thing where I don't look at the audience and talk at length about the efficiency of trains.

Another run out of this next month at Gael and Grain, Glasgow. Tickets here: www.goodeggcomedy.co.uk/event-detail...

Thank you everyone who came to my show and all of Alternative Comedy In Good Faith. The attendance was far higher than we expected and the vibes were spectacular. What a pleasure.

I've felt like I've griped a lot recently. Since the pando I've resolved to be positive and support things and folk that are good for me. So I'd just like to put on record that I think these are the sunshine days of my life.

Going through little bouts of sleeplessness again, so here's some things I like if you're in the same position.

Counterpoint: It did not.

I should say that I am doing this thing next Sunday in Glasgow. A touchdesigner to Unreal Engine pipeline that critics are already calling 'why?'. Come see a show that puts the 'gem' into 'database management' Glasgow Zine Library. Sunday Lunchtime.

In the new show I decided to mix dynamic cameras, models and materials in Unreal, with an 8bit animation model in Touchdesigner, and hoo boy, mixing those has been hilariously difficult. I sat looking at all the data transfer today and just laughed.

Some cool news I'd forgotten to post. My new show, These Lanes I Watch Into The Fog, will be a collaboration with internationally acclaimed composer and Mercury Prize nominated musician Peter Brewis of Field Music. Its cool. Super happy to be working with someone I hugely admire.

My favourite thing to do at the moment is whenever my wife asks me who I'm on the phone to I say 'It's Mike from Ocean, talking about the loan'

Some nice news incoming

1/9 Steve Reed and his £100bn: a timeline. Steve Reed says he won’t nationalise the water industry, because it would cost £100bn. 👀So where does that figure come from?👀 He claims that it comes from his own department. 🚨But it looks like it came from the private water companies. #ComeCleanSteve

I've had an ongoing battle since last summer regarding OSC, NDI and multiplatform multiprocessor communication. Tried to do the thing in about eight or nine different ways, today I think I got it to begin to work. Massive for the next couple of things, huge for all the work put in so far.

Le Cinéma

Finished the draft of the first third of my tech-based PhD today. Yet to mention tech. I've talked exclusively about what it is to make and view art.

People think that because I have a MA and nearing the end of a PhD in performance and tech, that I am good with tech. No, I am good at reading about how tech engages philosophically with performance. Can't fix your telly, but I can explain with reference to Heidegger how television makes you feel.

Sunderland are just about to play in the Premier League for the first time since 2016. Thats when I stopped paying attention. Is it the same? How's Tony Hibbert's form? How many England Caps has Callum Chambers for now? Craig Shakespeare still the steady hand on Leicester's tiller?

Umberto Eco probably never had a Pizza Hut Buffet. And yet he deigned to lecture us on perspective and experience.

For some reason it's really funny that it's the Somerset Police that have to investigate Bob Vylan and Kneecap. 'We take this very seriously. When I read the allegations I nearly spat out my bit of straw. I assure you we've scrambled every horse and cart in a ten mile radius'

Same energy

XTC's Nonsuch is better than I remember. What a good record that is.