PROJECTS
Below is a selection of development diaries for projects I'm working on. I try to keep these up to date; if I've been working on something then I tend to post an update at the end of the day. This is my alternative to posting on social media.
Most recent updates are at the top.
The Drawing Machine
After experimenting with the POSCA pens and the envelope code, I've had a go at writing code specifically for dealing with the pens, rather than kinda hacked stamper-to-pens code.
I took the Fibonacci sequence and had a go at making some colourful plots out of it. Worked pretty well.
I think they look better smaller than larger, after a certain size it all gets a bit too random.
Envelopes
Well this is a fun new development in envelope making.
Figured that as the stamping was going well, and POSCA pens needed "priming", which is pretty much the same as stamping, I could stick POSCA pens in there instead of the stamps.
It actually kinda worked!!
Kitty the studio AI PA
Added another new tool to Kitty. This is a desktop conference mic/speaker. It has four mics pointing in the four directions and pretty good background noise cancelling. After trying out the dictaphone with Kitty (words great), I also wanted something that would be always listening and transcribing. So as I...
Riso
Had to help a couple of people use the Riso machine, and as I hadn't used it myself for a couple of weeks I wanted to make sure it was still working okay, as they don't like to stand doing nothing for too long. Quickly sketched a ghost, and printed...
Handmade Notebooks
I've taken to writing in the greenhouse in the morning, and decided to sew a couple of notebooks while I was in there.
FALLiNGWATER
Time to print some more notebook covers, to get me to the 32 notebooks I want (that I still haven't worked out what to do with yet).
Rubber Stamping Machine
The whole point of this was so I could stamps some cards that said "No Need To Reply To Art Mail", which is a semi-fun note to include in things when I send some art, along with a more detailed explanation telling people that they shouldn't feel that they need...
Various Zines
Popped into the studio this morning, to make sure I got all the zines done in time to send off on Monday. Here's the rest of the pages all cut and folded and ready to put together.
TWSBI Eco Fountain Pen Holder
I've refined the pen holder design a little bit. I've decided to just go with TWSBI sized, which is fractionally too small for LAMY pens. But if I make it a little bigger the TWSBI wobbles around a bit and it just feels a bit off. I can of course...
The Sea Howls From The West
And another jump in time 😅 Since starting the project I bought myself a printer, and having decided after all my pen plotting ink tests that I did indeed want to use the inks I figured it was time to focus on the design and try to move the whole...
Oil Pastels Machine
Okay, back at it today, and a few more passes, and I kinda love it.
The colours really pop in the photos and it just looks like a wonderful thing to have going on in a drawing machine.
Another part of me is worried about all that dust near the machine though, so 🤷♂️
Generative Handwriting
Hmmmmm, I should really upload and back-date all the handwriting photos I have so far, but as I'm starting these dev diaries now I guess I have to start somewhere. These photos were taken so I could add them to my newsletter, but I didn't use them in the end....
