One half of @ctpt_studio.
I mostly tweet about music, programming, and design.
Playlisting on https://t.co/J9haTWpvth
Aug 9, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Toolmaking is material-attunement: constant shifting of positions in relation to the behaviours of materials and processes.
Entering—Waiting—Evaluating—Adjusting
Mark Fell: Structure and Synthesis urbanomic.com/product/mark-f…
Using music technology is "absorbed embodied exploration" as per Heidegger: the TB-303 was ready-to-hand for Phuture when they made Acid Tracks.
what a nice surprise! it's going to take some time to get through these.
Apr 24, 2019 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Reading the very cool "Learned Representation for Scalable Vector Graphics" paper about learning a latent space of fonts, by @iraphas13, @hardmaru, @douglas_eck (thread)
arxiv.org/abs/1904.02632
This model deals with fonts as vector path data. That's what all OpenType fonts are actually represented as: TrueType or PostScript paths, which are essentially the same as SVG paths. Sequences of straight line segments and bezier curves.
Oct 7, 2018 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Brian Eno in conversation with Finn Williams - on architecture, city planning, the big here and the long now.
"We're addicted to stimulus. The whole thing about using your phone all the time is to get a little hit. Like endlessly snacking and never actually having a meal."