This is the home page for my daily code sketches and will likely change sporadically.
These are meant to be sketching with code. I'm using html, css, js and the p5js and jQuery libraries.
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spinny css shapes, grids, gradients
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SEASON - year clock. took a looong 4 hours to figure all out. conic-gradient polyfill.
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turtle + yin yang fight - uses turtle-jquery. drunkwalk/randomwalk.
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all i want for christmas is a ... + a .... +
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merzbox listing + links
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random colors, homemade sequencers, dice rollers, voice sampler instruments
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almost-rogues. made by scratch. using p5dom. implemented items, monsters, fighting, potions, scrolls, gold, hp, xp. not implemented: correct fighting.
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rotate-like. roguelike code but now rotating. input affects motion.
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flatgames using my tool. 27 is a prototype flatgame builder.
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generative or css drawing, gradient, face, y mas. check 32 and 33: flag, and black flag
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3D projects (of somewhat increasing complexity). check any, but especially later ones like 52/rothkubes.
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Visited Taipei Museum of Fine Arts - saw Yu Peng's retrospective and used elements from epic 5 Women painting and Mountains of Fu Chun for generative exploratory works with p5play.
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self-playing self-query-scape
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floating heads variations, responding to voice, audio
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Paintmaster. instant digital glitch funk backgrounds. click to redraw.
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dungeon map maker - control sprites
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10,000 bowls of oatmeal dungeon zone name generator
'pair of earrings mall','shoe lace economic zone','incense holder institute','rat mission'
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unfinished ascii block drawing, ultra too simple n bug-ful
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used this as a flux talking head for a promo at ARoS museum in Denmark
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my bald head simulator
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more baldness w/ sound and motion
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a random white noise player (voice sounds) made for disquiet junto 0398: rauschen bern, 70 = groan sounds, 71 = fm3 buddha machine sounds, 72 = eno music for airports sounds
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"press package"
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a roguelike zoo creator. minimal. needs some work.
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more roguelike dungeon-drawing experiment (+ glitch box maker)
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minimal experiment to make a web-based button builder - 2 modes
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testing...testing...json button object reader
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These 3 are links to projects I created in November for National Novel Generating Month, an annual tradition where computational potes/botmakers/coder-artists produce generated novels, defined as being output of 50k words or more. 78 is pomelo, my generator to produce Yoko Ono instruction text pieces in the style of her books Grapefruit and Acorn. This took me a few days, and I used Kate Compton's Tracery library, and had a few issues getting it going. I still want to pick this back up and tweak it a bit better sometime. The titles don't connect well to the associated generated text. 79 is a link to a Nano-NaNoGenMo (sub 256 character) program I wrote to generate a novel called Don't Talk to Me or My Son or My Son's Son or My Son's Son's Son Ever Again. 80 is a link to Lucifer Bimbisara or Francois unsuperscribed, another Nano-NaNoGenMo program that uses the built-in word lists on Linux computers to generate poetic text.
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Oh man, I've tried to make roguelikes with p5.js a bunch, but never got to anything playable. (See earlier experiments 19-22). This is a first minimal playable thing. Still needs a good core mechanic. Visually I had fun with it, making my own Brough-like. Lots still to do.
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this is a modified version of 81 so that it's self-playing
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oh, what the hell, it's 4am, i built a scanner-camera, inspired by a short article and photo/gifs from Joshua Jenkins. He didn't share any code, but I thought this was an interesting idea to build a scanner-style camera in p5.js. Mine can scan top to bottom or right to left. There's a bug. Need to play with the image drawing lines to figure out where, probably in the size of the camera capture.
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oh, just some goals
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oh, just some goals-sheet-maker
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a zine-maker! wooo! includes a help screen! it has its own documentation and is being built out. needs to output pdf!
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it's 83, the scan-camera hosted on glitch.com and embedded here so it'll work in other peoples' browsers because it's using https now
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Printster7200, a generative poster-maker! it's modified from 86's code (ZineMaker2054) but now it's a single page poster-maker. should be built into a more robust tool!
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started building out a mini 3d game engine thing instead of using unity. exercise in futility. has a soundtrack, you can eat things. move with arrow keys. grab and rotate world. move mouse to rotate 'body'.
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different version of 89. playable. not a game but a good roamer.
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poster grid. posters generated with printwobbler, new version of 84. saved, presented on screen with version of 83's starter code.
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remake 51 w/ file input option. a demake of the floor of messlife.
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remix of 92, unfortunately now with boxes. need more organic shapes next. i'm on an airplane so couldn't look up syntax. mouse grab rotates.
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variation of 93, using screenshots of terminal / txt / imgs. mouse grab rotates.
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simple 2d bezier curves in 3d space, at first an emulation of struggle inc / cody hudson but mine is much simpler, done in 20-30 min, worth revisiting later. mouse grab to rotate/reposition.
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sucky bad first rendering of ultra dashed off scene made from scans of my notebook chickenscratch and some crayone drawings. don't yet know how to properly render lights in webgl from unity. looked fine in the editor? no skybox. no nothin' really.
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same problems, different day. using images scanned in C.F. from a poster hanging in my bedroom from his show "Comics" exhibited at beginnings in brooklyn circa 2014?
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mockup of a different version of the talking face. won't work in firefox or on http, requires https. copy on glitch.com should work
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modification of 57, self-flying - submission to vector fest
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redo 58, submission to vector fest
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blatant oblique strategies cover
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doodle studio 95 mini zone, music from my modular. bizarro. corona virus indoors day. sunday.
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a flatgame using starter movement and animation scripts from the flatgame first-timer's beginner's guide. made of drawings of the houses i've lived in, and my notes. music recorded on my modular synth. created in nu jersey.
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my second 2d in 3d game. made with drawings in my notebook of my childhood house at 232 henley. put a lot of time into getting this right, figuring out sound, ending fade/glitches, etc. proud of this one.
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speculative software (really a website) called Zonez88 or homezonez88, 'a simulation manifesation based on ambient memories and dream-material of their native living units'
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a virtual seder plate
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collapsed website / collapsed poesis generated
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made during twitch tv stream for babycastles academy on april 19, 2020 during covid-19. improvisationally made live. "becoming landscape" - demo poemware.
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BEGIN DAY 1 of ??. Finals Fantasy-Jake Elliott prompt's. Make a html branching game every day speculating on something happening nearby. Today: chicken house.
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day 2 of ??. branching narrative of a woman and stink bug in new jersey.
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day 3 of ??. non-branching-stream-of-thoughtlessness.
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my own obscure instructions, inspired by Eno and Scmidt, Yoko Ono, and Do It. Also hosted on glitch and itch! Why not.
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custom 404 page based on 107
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it's been a min. added a page of my goals, assessing where i'm at during this halfyear mark.
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reviving my self-playing starter p5.roguelike in some tests
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one-dimensional version of roguelike, sketch 81
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various frank stella-ish viz tests. light and surupy. then dark and heavy. remangling past imagery. etc.
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website test of something
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i coded up an amateur 1-dimensional hunt the wumpis (which i call wimpis) for hardware, the microbit, and an emulated version here that works in the browser
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some tests with hands. don't mind me.
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um i just needed something to pick a card any card
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a variation of 118, and color red
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procrastination for 5 min
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test to see if git hooks workin'
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sigil generator, zygil generator, zyzzyggyy generator
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this is basically my hello world for pico-8. no significant interaction yet. arrow keys move.
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a personal tool to play a game
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uh-oh, starting pico-8. a generative toything
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found this on old computer from several several years ago. added fillp and then >>> published.
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same, an early sketch i just found, from before i knew pico-8 or lua. i added in some random fillp backgrounds.
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pico-8 quilt generator
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progressing on my quiltlike, tiny village walkabout. procedural generation of the village map implemented, along with naming each location. makes fun of the Museum of Pizza, Museum of Illusions, etc - the tourist/slob-circuit in nyc. anyway....
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more progress! quiltfolk is now a full village, procedurally generated, with houses, people, mini conversation stubs and procedurally generated quilts!
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digital holga cam
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same but 100px x 100px, for use in Xzone workshop in Our Networks conference
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like the 122s w/ dif imgs
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this is an attempt at recreating a mid-90s shareware videogame I used to play on Mac system 9. It came on a disk with hundreds of programs on it. I don't remember the name. The graphics and sound were different. This is my take. Images from Ruins of Desert Cathay. This is a first commit/version, i am continuing to work on it in another location and will publish to my itch page.
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first steps. 151: generating a random "customer" as a first step to possibly building out a generated world, inspired by my microfiction game Shopkeeper. 152: trying to figure out why translate is also rotating, probably due to adding up translations in draw? more investigation needed.
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dice thing
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DIY slideshow
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a todo-list app in a tweet
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based on 155, extended simply, an idea that came to me quickly, around 2am. made several variations. raining checkboxes, text from the generic personality test quiz found in darius's corpora collection
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mit commission, minus seed / page api / print capability
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b&w THRESHOLD variation
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same as 159 but camera follows (zero) player, always placing at center
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i love this one. my first generative animated illustrated dream.
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modified version of 158 that changes from Black and White to Color periodically
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another dream, about a cat playing with 'a penumbra'
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starter title screen scroller / randomizer, for use by other scripts for an autonomous generative animated story-movie for an exhibit
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started something new, a test submission possibly for taper6. i rarely code in straightup js so it took me more than a reasonable time to get this simple code setup.
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made a tiny logo-like toy language DSL and tested it out here, implementing something like gary stager's 21st century logo quilts assignment
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added another quilt i made with my PLogo
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quilt of trees in a forest
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same as 168, now with retro filter applied
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made a drunk turtle walk with my LOGO. "art" as neil would say.
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same as 170 but added console output
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nother quick test run, minor changes
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a submission to list jam 2021
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link to Gobi game on itch.io
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ploguelike, not really a roguelike in plogo, just an idea
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found an old bitsy sketch from summer 2018 and might as well plop it here.
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abandoned but pushed anyway
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variation on my Taper #6 submission
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another variation on taper #6 piece
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weird worldbuilding via forms
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mini scratchpads doodling tools, originally made to be used for vimwiki wiki but can be used on phone, web, etc
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2 minute program, generate 'sigil'
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tiny avatar generator, inspired by pixelfaces, and derivatives
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different avatar generators, in semi-3d
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extremely simple 'print-quality' b&w threshold collage using a single public domain image of kurt schwitters' merzbau. s to save. click to add more images.
then added more found merzbau images and layer them more. extensions of 192. s to save. click to add more layers. 193 - 4 are merzbild. 195 & 197 is my apartment. 196 is patterns in my apt. 198 is a quilt experiment. 199 are my drawings integrated. 201 is built of eurorack images, 202 is government images database from the dep't of energy. 203 is an early early test for my nanogenmo entry.
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puzzlescript game, just getting some basics down in a few minutes. dumdum dungeon.
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randum robots puzzlescript
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made while teaching puzzlescript today to students in programming for visual artists.
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slightly better variation
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mario demake, unfinished
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indiana jones demake
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same, but with better built-in learning tutorials
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an actual fun 'first' game, haberdashery!
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a maze game with teleporters
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Beats of Babylon: generative beat creation
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Broadway Boogie Awoogie 1 hard 'generative' music
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phasing piece and practicing livecoding with puzzlescript! homage to steve reich? very lofi
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noise thing.
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a wanderland vision quest sans mechanics
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the aging process (accurate)
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rabbit in a hat puzzlescript toy. could be built into more of a game. right now it's a very simple find-it/guess-who type game.
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Dungeon of Eyeballs. A simple but challenging escape the dungeon maze game.
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Carnivorous Plant Farmer of Xsfot. A fun gardening game!
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4 art assignments. 4 pixel painting art assignments.
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petri dish. a kind of automata.
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sleeping in the pandemic. a diary / memoir / journal of life in the pandemic.
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excuses. just text describing my day and why i didn't make any 'art.'
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made clue. took forever and it's not even great.
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caniblock, canabalt-like
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worked harder on 227 and turned it into Stunt Copter, a clone of the Mac SE game I used to play in the early 90s when we were supposed to learn touch typing in middle school
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island adrift [screensaver]
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a not-great game but finished! for glorious trainwrecks secret santa event.
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made in about 30 min during the web1.0 (0.0?) jam organized by html energy, sometime in jan i think
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made a week after getting concussion, 8 days
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sound test proof of concept for a piece for Sholeh Asgary
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back in business. first lil thing after concussion. just wanted to try something out. was reading allison's report on her culturehub project and decided i'd mock something up fast before bed.
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CLI (emulated) in the browser, running WHITE FLAG 1.0 - command line software to generate a white flag. more to come?
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minimal test, not a game, to move a player @ around screen with key presses, just vanilla browser API
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little test page listing my computers, inspired by the ultra-minimal design of breadpunk.club/~yeast (eli)
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list of white noise sounds in my room
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listed all the books i'm reading lately, why not. minimal non-theme again.
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CSS Grid practice, inspired by Elliott Computer, to build an archive of today's fave archives and sites
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a list of (almost) every item i purchased or bought on ebay 1999 - 2022
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A within a
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things i like, my cultural/artistic influences
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i'll be honest this was a 30 second messup that i liked the look of so am keeping it. but i'll fix and turn my intention into 245
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a version of 243 that can be played coninuously
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made a version hacked to display fluxers
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bootleg eno reflection inspired app made in a few minutes for someone who doesn't like eno
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piece created for live performance at ARoS public event 'i would die 2 u' august 11, 2022 with flux factory
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link to Web World and cooperative Computing site made for ARoS Public and Mixr event - organized with flux factory and code&share[], aarhus
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Radio Free Aarhus audiozine
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yet another random village generator
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village generator grid, half-completed
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quick and dirty presentation 'zine' layout using community memory images
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map of the neighborhood, made as demonstration site for Scripting for the Web
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just something i thought of, a 10print variation, while taking a walk and seeing an old (better!) mural peeking out behind a more recent capitalist realism one
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a list of many of my projects. now it's a todo list to make pages and get all of these online and documented on my website portfolio.
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created minimal 'dungeon' tile with frogfont
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yiddish bund (pirate) radio station in the car. tim gave me a reminder of an idea i had and i implemented a minimal version.
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experimental intuitive idea. took photos walking to studio today and have them populate this page. plain 'gallery' without js. experimental zine-sign with js in p5.
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took no time at all. some little test from playing around with w3schools looking at html color names.
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experimenting with a see thru overlay
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minimal demo toward solr protocl
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un-sell-able logo gen
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cory arcangel website project page rip + dall-e generated imgs "Cory Arcangel painting in plein air style"
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copy of 264 page template, making a new page for the Distances video I made with Amelia, screening Friday at the Internet Archive
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still using that page template. now showing digitally altered images - my head 'collapsed' and pixelated.
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demo "pattern weaver" made for Dan Lichtman for a class. this is a MVP!
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modified 267 to create a fullscreen grid of pattern grid weavings
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rapid landing page test
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purch.us link shortener redirectory for Purchase College
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Piper's Winter Garden, created during HTML Energy Freewrite (well, recreated afterward).
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Hmmm, needed to put this somewhere. Tonight I wanted to check my season clock so i copied it over here to make it convenient and have a 'new' project page. I actually coded this 5 years ago, in 2018.
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Dalle: Yiddish anarchists against the machine
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ReadifyWikipedia bookmarklet. Removes link styling and sidebars so you can just read without distraction on wikipedia.
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WikipediaTerminal, an emulation that styles the web-based wikipedia page to look like a green text minospaced font on black terminal.
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Dalle experiment to generate images of luddites fighting back against surveillance technology
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dalle experiment generating speculative exquisitecorp imgs
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face generator, simple code for students
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minsite minimal website style scheme testing
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lil site made for the html.energy freewrite, initially written in a notebook, then coded in vim on the phone and ssh'ed into the server. this is a cleaned-up post-event version.
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Archiving Artist-Run Spaces project page
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draft prototype (too large) for taper issue 11. ascii car driving sim poem.
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images and writeup of old computer challenge 2023
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my studio-visit sketch from back in 2018.
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'Drek' dirt emoji prototypes created for the Dirty Time open call.
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Shopkeeper solo ttrpg i made for james chip's micro fiction games jam in 2020
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Project page for A Throw of the Text for Taper
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Project page for Exocolony, published by ORAL.pub
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Project page for Savage Words