Weeknotes 62 - New hardware and the toothache
Weeknotes 62 - New hardware and the toothache ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ This week is boring technical update week, my new MacBook Pro (13" M1) arrived.Late November, early December, my old MacBook Pro finished its...
View ArticlePenplotter profit/loss, month of January 2021
Penplotter profit/loss, month of January 2021 New year, new pen-plot sales report. This one is slightly interesting as I've added a couple of new "revenue streams" which I now have to add into the...
View ArticleA short essay on pricing pen plotter art
A short essay on pricing pen plotter art Executive tl;dr summary When I first started thinking about writing this, it would be a guide on "How to price your pen plotter art", but that was a trap....
View ArticleWeeknotes 63 - no notes this week, just demo scene fonts.
Weeknotes 63 - no notes this week, just demo scene fonts. There aren't any weeknotes this week, because I spent far too long playing with all the retro fonts found over at...
View ArticlePackaging Pen Plots to Post
Packaging Pen Plots to Post Today's post is a swift one about how I package my pen plots to survive the trip through the various postal services around the world. It's gone through a bit of evolution...
View ArticleWeeknotes 64 - Homepage identity conflict
Weeknotes 64 - Homepage identity conflict After skipping last week and cheating the week before, it seems a bit lax to come in this week with a "not much has happened", but I guess that's the kind of...
View ArticlePenplotter profit/loss, month of February 2021
Penplotter profit/loss, month of February 2021 A languid month sales-wise this February. Rationally I can explain this in several ways. I wasn't really hustling very much on the sales front. Perhaps...
View ArticleWeeknotes 65 - Scared of the Second Life Sexytimes Sofa
Weeknotes 65 - Scared of the Second Life Sexytimes Sofa. During the week, I'll often take photos of what I'm doing, or make notes in my notebook, to make writing these weeknotes easier. However,...
View ArticleWeeknotes 66 - Loop Hero Adventures
Weeknotes 66 - Loop Hero Adventures I've been "playing" more Loop Hero this past week, although "playing" really means editing the game.ini file and then seeing what happens. When I was a kid, way...
View ArticleNFTs and crypto-art, from a practicing artist, who thinks, on balance that...
NFTs and crypto-art, from a practicing artist, who thinks, on balance that (ultimately) it's a good idea. #0 Preface This is a long-ass blog post, around 10,000 words for a reading time of 40mins....
View ArticlePenplotter profit/loss, month of March 2021
Penplotter profit/loss, month of March 2021 Well, it turns out that this was a month of change. An inflexion point of before and after, and one that came much sooner than expected, to be honest. Let's...
View ArticleWeeknotes 67 - "Geeks, nerds, and dorks"
Weeknotes 67 - "Geeks, nerds, and dorks" I haven't written weeknotes for three weeks now, each week for different reasons that I would explain in the following week if each week didn't get...
View ArticleWeeknotes 68 - Bin Bag Trauma
Weeknotes 68 - Bin Bag Trauma Quick bullet points weeknotes this week, going OG style. I actually got excited by an App notification on my phone that wasn't something I'd specifically asked for....
View ArticleWeeknotes 69 - One more art studio, one less tooth
Weeknotes 69 - One more art studio, one less tooth Excellent! Also, we watched Bill & Ted Face the Music, which was fun. It looks like the kind of film that was fun to write, fun to make, fun to...
View ArticleGenerative Art with Art Blocks, a new edge
Generative Art with Art Blocks, a new edge I am, at heart, someone who likes to document things. I keep weeknotes, I've been reporting my profit/loss while pen plotting, I do blogging, and I've...
View ArticleWhat are you going to do with all that money?
What are you going to do with all that money? It's possible you could have arrived at this post in any number of ways. Perhaps you're here from the RSS feed, or I tweeted it, or more likely from...
View ArticlePenplotter profit/loss, month of April 2021
Penplotter profit/loss, month of April 2021 Last month I said things were a month of change, so, well, yes, indeed. We'll dive right into the numbers, and then I'll offer an explanation of sorts, I...
View ArticlePen Plotting Subscape #433
Penplotting Subscape #433 This was a fun, quick project. Over on Art Blocks generative artist and creative coder Matt DesLauriers released a project called Subscapes, generating 650 different yet...
View ArticleWeeknotes 70 - Racoon Candyfloss
Weeknotes 70 - Racoon Candyfloss The past few weeks, I've been trying to reduce down my to-do lists by actually doing the tasks and, more importantly, not adding new ones. It hasn't been totally...
View ArticleGallery One - Rev Dan Catt's Art Blocks Collection | Selected Works
Gallery One - Art Blocks Collection 🖼 🖼 🖼 For fun, here are some selected works from my collection of generative art from the Art Blocks platform. I highly recommend fullscreen if your 'puter can...
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