Best Friends Video

April 7, 2023

Part of a big multipart commission I completed. This was created from an initial brief. Firstly I produced some sketches to make sure I was going in the right direction with comments and modifications along the way. I tweaked my style slightly generally to be more of an illustrative look and had to focus more on a playful theme rather than the dark edge I usually employ.

Sorting Org Tags

April 1, 2023

I use a package called org-rainbow-tags which adds random colours to org tags to provide a consistent colour between identical tags. This helps to identify common tags throughout the file but has the side effect of emphasising the lack of my coherent tag ordering.

Trimming ArtRage Playback Scripts using Emacs

March 21, 2023

Emacs isn't my only obsession, I like to create digital art and for that I use ArtRage. The interesting thing about ArtRage is that each brush stroke or editing action can be recorded in a text file or script for later playback. I use this facility for creating time-lapses.

Midi Remix Sahara

March 6, 2023

I have been revisiting my old midi files from my the early days of music composing and upon seeing the release of FLStudio 21 it inspired me to look at this software again and see what I can do with my old midi, this is what I quickly remixed -> Sahara

Digital Art Printing

March 5, 2023

Once a digital piece of art has been created then it is time to print it. A few tweaks are required in my image editor of choice and that is GIMP.

Using Macros to Help Code Debugging

March 2, 2023

Often I find myself requiring the most rudimentary of methods of debugging and that is to push text to standard output from within a running executable to indicate the logical structure of a program.