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A new player, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

Over the weekend I was in Bristol with Stuart to run the Call and Return game at igfest (Interesting Games Festival).

It was great to get people involved with the game but it was clear that some people wanted a very casual game that they could pick up and play in a matter of minutes. None the less there’s more people playing the game and I’m sure the next one will be played in even more cities!

Damn Small Linux, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

Late last year, after having numerous troubles with my computer (which resulted in me losing lots of my work) I decided to try out Ubuntu Linux distro. I had a few old computers in the house, but Ubuntu wouldn’t install on any of them! I was royally annoyed!

After going to Brumcon 07.5 today I felt inspired to try again and it worked! I had a few problems typing in a password, in that it wasn’t working, but it let me bypass it or something. Will be doing a fresh reinstall soon.

I’ve always been interested in actually learning how to use and program this sort of thing. My friend, Mez, now a php developer, is/was a developer for Ubuntu and I was always curious as to what it’s all about. I guess this, and the installing of Linux on my iPod is just the start of my journey to discover hardcore coding!

I, of course, wanna bring all of this coding knowledge back to the arts. Les Hutchins, who performed at Brumcon, provides a good example of some of the things I want to do.

Right, back to more coding, amongst other things…

iPod Linux, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

I’ve been further experimenting with gadgets! This time I’m trying to get iPod Linux onto my iPod (who woulda thunk it!).

I’m trying to get it to work so that I can install pdPod (based on PureData (a derivative of Max/MSP)) on it. To see what it’s capable of take a look at this youtube video. I’m hoping to use this in conjunction with LSDJ for something.

Drawing practice, originally uploaded by hellocatfood.

Even when you’ve been a practicing artist for years, it’s always good to go back and relearn something. I’m learning from the Andrew Loomis books

I made this quite awhile ago on Trippy H, but only now found the damn cables to show y’all.

It’s essentially just a loop, but that’s one of the limitations of Trippy H. My cart flasher should be arriving tomorrow so I’ll start making actual songs from then.

Awhile back when I started this blog I had no idea what I wanted it to be. Although the general aim of this website is to promote my work I feel that the blogging side may be overshadowing it and some of the blog posts don’t really focus on art or other creative subjects. As a result I’m going to be using my old/new blog to post about anything except art. This blog will still cover things about art that I like and progress reports on current projects, but I just don’t want the blog to overshadow the work

Go bookmark www.antiant.co.uk

Now that I’ve found out how to make a static page my home page I want to be able to display, say, three of the most recent posts on that static page. Any clues on how to do it? I’ve had a search on Wordpress for a ‘sticky‘ plugin, hoping that it’ll simply be like having a sticky post. Alas, no luck

Also, sorry if I’ve broken anyones rss feeds or links by changing the blog address!

Here’s a piccy I drew in Illustrator last night whilst waiting to go to work
clicky

Today I’ll be resting and doing boring stuff yay

That is all.

Four hours of fucking solid hard work and this is what I have to show for it.

It’s Staffordshire University’s Logo. It’s very simple, but I learned a lot about reflecting images and I feel I’ve improved my tracing abilities.

Btw, this is for a magazine cover I’m working on for my Student Union Magazine. I’ve already designed one tonight, but I feel the one I’m going to do could actually be used.

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