Theo Watson

Palette maker www.kynd.info/unlock/palet...

Found this while looking for the Cairo character set & immediately had this rush of memories…I think a MacPaint file of this was available, since I vividly recall a much younger me enjoying the keycaps, and the Athens typeface across the top. (I must have been about 10?) www.moma.org/collection/w...

Holy moly. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s new album is 🔥 Reminds me of Clark meets @murloo.bsky.social so frigging good! This track and GTP! are bonkers! kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont...

I’ve been wanting to do a diy solar project for a while now. Might have to hit you up 😁

Been playing Lego Voyagers as a family, it’s very special and one of the best Lego games out there. 2 player co-op only, it’s delightful, playful, puzzle platformer with building a core part of the game. Well done Light Brick Studio www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V6m...

Oh man yes, the platform this beautiful game deserves

Waves (blue) / 1 Made with Island. Realtime, 240Hz. #noai #generativeart #genart #genartclub #simulation

#Opportunity! The Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology has announced its 2026-2027 residency program, focused on "AGENCY", providing both local-to-NYC as well as virtual residencies for US-based artists. Deadline is Sunday, Oct 11! eyebeam.org/focus/agency

Experience the first half of Gene Wolfe’s fantasy masterpiece The Book of the New Sun with Shadow & Claw. The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library supports Alzheimer’s Research UK | https://bit.ly/4zcpRc8

@alzabosoup.bsky.social www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...

project launch! postcardgifts.com create & send postcards for cheap, delight your loved ones with physical mail 💌

Omg yes!! I used an earlier version of this to send post cards to an elderly relative. It absolutely rocks!! I used the scheduled queue feature too. Glad it to see it being relaunched .

Some more on the show from our friends at NPR: www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g...

There's a 10% chance that Rowboat will kill us all before the end of the decade. Until then, I hope you'll find it's drastically faster, more accurate, less expensive, and more fun than using an LLM to play with large datasets. Our latest: buttondown.com/rowboat/arch... Give it a try: rowboat.net

sweep (colourful) Realtime, 240hz Made with Island #generativeart #handmade

I am also heading to Linz tomorrow and will be co-hosting the Creative Coding Open House with these great people!

A new Onnx model loading and Pose / Hands / Face tracking addon for @openframeworks.bsky.social by @nick-hardeman.bsky.social forum.openframeworks.cc/t/ofxonnx-an...

I’m obsessed with this book cover!

Great quote.

Huh. Weird arrangement to have them stacked like that. Never seen that approach before.

No wall at Big Bend.

PSA: I have updated the p5js+MediaPipe tracking demo for late 2026— this repairs several breaking changes by vendors (ahem). It now uses p5 v2.3.2 and MediaPipe v.1.0.0. Ready for your students! openprocessing.org/@golan/2760298 editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch... cc @openprocessing.bsky.social

Really enjoyed this from @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social where they dive into one of my favorite Gene Wolfe books. It’s definitely not a simple read but so rewarding and the final chapter of book 2 is probably one of my favorite Wolfe moments of all time. Great podcast!! Hooked

Multitrack visualization www.kynd.info/geom/multitr...

I'm pleased to announce the release of a browser-based tool for viewing, reconstructing, and exporting 3D data from a GelSight Mini tactile sensor. This unusual $500 device connects like a regular webcam, but can be used as a depth-scanning microscope for surface texture: github.com/CreativeInqu...

Went to the Cleveland Museum of Art and took a bunch of really bad photos of one of the really cool installations that @theowatson.bsky.social and his studio Design I/O worked on. It was super fun to play with. The other installation was down for maintenance. (I was in town for Earthquaker Day)

@nick-hardeman.bsky.social testing the limits of our pose matching installation at Cleveland Museum of Art

glitches created by opening apps and loading up my VRAM and having my OpenFrameworks app spit out what’s in the VRAM #glitch #glitchart #openframeworks #creativecode

Shadow of the Torturer all the way to Return to the Whorl. It's a really entertaining listen and a good way to visit or revisit the series.

If you fancy a re-read of Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle (Book of the New Sun et al) or want to have a first read with some critical accompaniment, @alzabosoup.bsky.social podcast have just finished their commentary on the entire sequence from

A new edition of Tunnel will run August 3-6. There are 2 seats left. Sign up if you'd like to learn system administration fundamentals while building up your own very private, sovereign, fast and diversely flexible VPN, running on geothermal energy in Iceland. courses.nikau.io/tunnel/

Two of our sculptures are on display at the Hortus Arboretum for the next year. If you find yourself in the Hudson Valley, please stop by! #sciart

Pleased to share a new (long) article providing guidance to help orgs help themselves move off big tech. It is based on many years experience helping organisations & groups do exactly that. courses.nikau.io/2026/07/03/m... Perhaps someone near you finds some of it useful. #sovereignty #bigtech

Today I liberated the GameTrak (c.2004), an unusual 3D sensor featuring two XY joysticks with retractable tethers. It’s ~$20 on eBay and very expressive: 6 channels of 12-bit data at 75Hz. It now emits data for #Processing and #p5.js over OSC, MIDI, WebSocket, and stdout. github.com/CreativeInqu...

Lit polyhedra Projection on drawing (2026)

absolutely loving these newly released old tracks from @murloo.bsky.social So so good!!! djmurlo.bandcamp.com/album/2015-2...

Congrats!! Very excited to check this out. 91% on Steam too!!

Smoothing スムージング [Math short write-up] www.kynd.info/writing/smoo...

Come visit Nervous System this weekend (today through Monday) and gaze into our newest sculpture, Cloud Flora n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=10004

Always enjoy a @laserpilot.bsky.social list / tool / case study

I have to do a lot of napkin math for interactive installations and just realized i could make a multitool for common things. Welcoming comments! laserpilot.github.io/interactive-... -Monitor placement, LED simulation, projector, sensor, speaker positioning

Our exhibit titled “Code, Light and Form” features work by Fred Kahl, Sophi Kravitz, Ward Fleming, Sage Jenson, and nervous system n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=10004

Whoa!! Absolutely beautiful @nervousjessica.bsky.social @nervousjesse.bsky.social NY and New England peeps go check out their open studio. I promise you won’t be disappointed!!

Gift Wrapping ギフトラッピング [Math short write-up] www.kynd.info/writing/gift...

These are tasty. 👌

Environment SDFs are based on angles, and are all automatically blurrable, so you can animate environment light in a way that would be too expensive to do with image based lighting.

I've been looking into a way to generate environments for lighting in p5 using strands shader code. That ended up turning into a little library called p5.env to help write some special SDFs that work for this purpose!

This is tomorrow! Still time to register here: luma.com/8nvmyatm

Why stop at France. Linux is just a better experience all around at this point.