midi-octopus v0.6b

I have been working on a modular midi interface, designed to allow midi sequencing of objects in the local environment. Behold, the midi-octopus

Cercle Des Marseille

There are lots of circles in Marseille. Here are a few of them…

Maker Faire

I attended the recent Maker Faire in Newcastle. It was the first time the mighty Maker Faire had visited the UK. It was a really inspiring event. I met some great people including spending some time with the delightful Mitch Altman, who is making the world a better place, one TV at a time.

This was my favourite thing there and it gave me the confidence to get on and build my forthcoming ‘midi-octopus’:

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Here are a few more things you don’t get to see every day:

Newcastle was cool too. Went out taking some photographs and generally enjoying the surroundings:

Couple of bars stocked Chimay White too, so I was a happy boy :)

Let’s not mention the hotel…was kept up by people shagging in the corridor and my somewhat angry neighbour. Joy.

A wicked time overall though! Big ups to O’Reilly / Make: magazine and roll on the next UK Maker Faire!

Scribble Diary

13.5 months (12 months scribbling and 1.5 months scanning and putting in a web page…) in the making and my Scribble Diary 2008 is finally here for everybody to see.

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My aims were to:
- get my feelings out
- make something substantial from a little daily effort
- learn to draw

Two out of three is not bad, I guess.

I am doing another one this year…but I got myself a lovely Moleskine diary and I am doing a small ‘art piece’ everyday…sometimes taking an hour or more. Hope I can keep it up.

Summit Spins

For most of my life I have been walking up hills. For the last 5 years or so I have done a little ’summit spin’ video on reaching the top. Here is my latest…during a lovely (if a little parky) break in Brecon over the new year.

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Kal

I found an old kaleidoscope kit the other day and decided to build it. I loved the look of the images it created so much that I decided to photograph it:

This led me to create a bigger scale kaleidoscope to expand on the options. The results were inspiring. They appealed to me in particular because of the ‘generative art’ aspect, which is a passion of mine. The idea of mixing some of my computer generated art pieces with physical mirrors and lights rather excites me. I have decided to develop this project; more reflective sides, motion, and through the scale of the kaleidoscopes themselves. I’d love to build one big enough to stand in…but one step at a time.

Here is the first image created with my larger scale kaleidoscope:

Here are a couple of short videos to demonstrate the potential of adding motion:

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Your World

Your World is a project I devised where the content is fully ‘user’ generated. I give you a disposable camera and a stamped addressed return envelope; you fill the camera with photos of Your World and send it back to me for processing.

I am deeply interested in the relationship between photographer and subject. The relationship and interaction can have a profound effect on the imagery produced. In Your World I have removed myself entirely from this equation.

A taste of Your World:

I plan to catalogue all images / image sets online at some point. For now, please contact me to request a camera if you’re interested in showing us Your World.

Scribble Diary

With the year nearly over it’ll soon be time to unleash the 366 images that make up the page a day scribble diary I have been keeping since the 1st of January 2008. The scribbles range from in a rush doodles to insightful drawings, all reflecting the day I’ve had…a little window into my world.

Self

Just dabbling with the effects of popping some Vaseline® on my lens filter.

dotPlay(); launched

Welcome to the all new dotPlay(); website. This replaces the old sAMsKi.net website with a blog driven site and ‘old fashioned experimental dumping ground website’.

My aim is to keep the content on this site moving by putting up all sorts of project experiments and dabblings, no matter how unsuccessful or embryonic.

Watch it grow…