*spark stage » scenes + demo why *spark stage, then? you can use it as a basic projection mapping tool, fed from other apps via syphon. but the articulating idea in the app is managing a 3D stage. and it’s an idea, i think, with ...

How is Fabric useful to me? Check this, hot off the digital anvil – tobyz.net/diary/2026/0...

Release Releases/Alpha-13 · Fabric-Project/Fabric Whats new: Fabric Swift Package Fabric's core engine is now a Swift Package, making embedding Fabric into custom Swift apps possible. This is a major milestone that mirrors a core use case from Qua...

If you remember Quartz Composer fondly, check out fabric.graphics – an open-source, modern reimagining. Early days, but for me at least today’s release has crossed a threshold of usefulness. github.com/Fabric-Proje...

A full-size hacksaw blade held along the end of a wooden batten by pan head screws. Saw-on-a-stick #4

Friday. Success.

Snips with handles extended by two long metal tubes. Saws-on-sticks weren’t working; change of plan.

Thursday

Junior hacksaw blade taped to the end of a wooden batten. Saw-on-a-stick #3, mk1

Junior hacksaw blade taped to the end of a wooden batten, offset to the side. Saw-on-a-stick #3, mk2

Junior hacksaw blade held to the end of a wooden batten by pan-head screws, and offset. Saw-on-a-stick #3, mk3

Wednesday

A junior hacksaw fixed onto the end of a wooden batten. A full-size hacksaw blade, in holder, taped onto the end of a batten. Saw-on-a-stick #1 & 2

Tuesday

A junior hacksaw fixed onto the end of a wooden batten. Saw-on-a-stick #1

Monday

masha rozhnova the talk that blew me away i did not see coming. its blurb launches with with “instrument”, in my experience a signifier not of expressivity, but of how far we are from it. but! masha had a beautifull...

beautifully simple concept, neatly executed tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...

touch designer london in past times, i’d made pilgrimages to check out the state of the art and be inspired by people pushing at it. time to do so again; i have questions about what makes sense for “visual systems” in 2025...

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insieme / spacepope garry spacepope, cardinal of tomorrow. need i say more?

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insieme / szolnok doing visuals at insieme has been a shared endeavour. henry rolls took care of friday, with saturday for “szolnok and *spark”. this is new! i’ve been collaborating with local friend and talent zsolt, ...

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insieme / fuel did the fuel piece. nice memory of the crowd locked in to tipper’s ‘tug of war’, the fuel records 12” catalogue animating along, and in that moment connecting back to when i record-shopped one of them...

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insieme / terrain saturday night: time to get to work. early evening, three hours: terrain take over the festival. insieme had commissioned a skinny gud illustration for the poster, and it came out great. happily, the ...

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insieme / to the barn friday night: some old friends, a new scene, the night yet young

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insieme / whitewashed cube my interest was piqued when i found out a neighbour runs a micro-festival. i was sold when i saw a photo of the late-night barn: thick sound-absorbing stone walls, whitewashed and begging for visuals ...

Having been holed up writing an academic chapter on live visuals (and interaction), getting out and reconnecting with nature, visuals and the night was most welcome… tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...

May the wind be in your sails, and the seas of powerful customisation crash upon the robust shores of pro apps once more.

Fabric is to 3D what V is to 2D?

Cinema screening of the stage adaptation of my favourite film. #mediatisation, but I’m here for it, figuratively and literally.

To bring this back to your original point, I bounced off it a few times back when the parts of it that touched macOS didn’t behave natively. It only became a viable Mac ‘citizen’ to me after some years of refinement.

Given all that – amen! – the irony to me is that Sublime Text has the best designed UI of all code editors. It exposes a lot of functionality with a minimum of chrome. To wit: I wish it was a Mac-assed idiom that multiple-select of items in a sidebar is how you manage n-up document display.

I was just thinking that “six month contract” must be up around now. Happy you’re (still) having fun.

Not mad! Having been to a out-of-town micro-festival that was solar+battery, it was even more pronounced there – a genny can really intrude on the bucolic idyll – not just the rumble but the whole idea of it.

massive attack one-off, climate-change framed home-town gig for massive attack.

massive attack and uva – still unique, hell of a show. tobyz.net/diary/2024/0...

Performer’s view looking out over immersive space: a room with projection as all four walls

More gigs like this please: me and laptop vs. immersive space.

Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Web with Jack Conte | SXSW 2024 Keynote Portuguese and Spanish language translations for SXSW 2024 Keynotes and Featured Sessions presented by ItaúPatreon CEO Jack Conte explains how the current in...

this talk came up in discussion afterwards. well worth a watch – www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUn...

crux » fuel / three-d again thanks to mike for the photo. this is from later on, a story-telling part where the ability to be in a 3D engine and build-up abstracted but understandable scenes comes into its own.

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crux » fuel / two-d finish talk, straight into performance. quite the shift, happily it was a smooth transition.

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crux » four good ideas and an iffy one i’d imagined the 45 minutes as a masterclass, but at some point realised the greater good would be promoting some of the ideas volta is built upon. so i made a deck full of videos showing volta in act...

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crux » four good ideas... to crux festival, a two-day event that has come out of an ongoing series of audio-visual-ish nights in london – “a meeting space to experiment, collaborate and be entertained”.

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slide deck showing slide saying "a classic rock album documentary for the rave generation”, "friday night on BBC 4, with a club PA”, followed by a shrug

London talk + gig alert: four good ideas and one iffy one for live performers and their tools. Featuring a demo of Volta, a performance of my Fuel Records piece. My favourite slide –

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