Studio and Life
Went to the garden center and bought far too many things, so I spent the day figuring out a) what to do with it all and b) where to put it.
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
As we still won't have gotten to actual code for the DM101 videos, we're still in the introduction stage, I have to create some extra pen plots this month for Patreon peeps. I'm going to be doing some variation on tally marks, in this case small strokes with the drawing...
Handmade Notebooks
Been a while.
The plan was/is to make 32 of these FALLiNGWATER notebooks, and a stack of eight have been sitting next to me for months, with six done, two left to stitch up.
Grabbed the last two today and just did 'em!
Progress.
Riso
I need to get my shop back online. No, wait. I would like to get my shop back online. I took it down because it was too much to maintain it and Shopify was charging me monthly while I wasn't using it. Seemed like a waste of money. Shopify uses...
Various Zines
Made a small little zine about the dots and printed it on the Riso printer. Simple 8 page zine from cutting and folding a single sheet.
FALLiNGWATER
Part of the FALLiNGWATER project was making a soundtrack to go with it, which was published on Spotify. As I'm slowly moving away from online services I figured I should turn the soundtrack into a mixtape.
Just a bit of fun, but now I have an analog way to listen to the soundtrack.
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...
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....
