📙 #070 - When to stop building tools and start using them

Sometimes things just need to change.

Sep 18 • 

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📙 #069 - I bring you the gift of: Envelopes

I come bearing tools, files, algorithms, inspiration and gifts of an extremely nerdy envelope nature!

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

📙 #068 - THINKING IN BLACK & WHITE (AND GREYSCALE)

Writing art code for riso printing.

Aug 21 • 

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📙 #067 - GOOGLING HOW TO WASH BLOOD OUT OF A CARPET

Late, for bad good reasons.

Aug 7 • 

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July 2025

📙 #066 - Don't Immanentize the Eschaton

Contains spoilers for Ghostbusters, Warehouse 13 and Raiders of the Lost Arc.

Jul 24 • 

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📙 #065 - Overly specific design and evolution.

A solution to stabbing oneself, an early new project, riso (again), will I get truncated, and OMG WHY IS IT SO HOT?!

Jul 10 • 

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June 2025

📙 #064 - Drawing Machines & Riso & Code & Zines & The Pit of Carkoon

GET IN THE PIT!

Jun 26 • 

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📙 #063 - Generative Art Riso Prints, Notebooks & Website update

Riso printing code art, fancy notebook making as an alternative to doom scrolling and a mild website update with project pages. Fun! I promise!

Jun 12 • 

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May 2025

📙 #062 - I don't want to be buried in a pet sematary; life with an AI

Plus some cool links, and mild notebook & riso updates.

May 29 • 

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📙 #061 - Dentist, anti-advice, a small chance of success & riso honeypot.

🦷🔧🚮💊💊🚂🗞️📓📝🌈🪩

May 15 • 

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📙 #060 - Howling progress, scanners, printers & pen holders.

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May 1 • 

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April 2025

📙 #059 - Generative Art & the Printing Process

Exploring the intersection of X and Y

Apr 17 • 

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📙 #058 - Rated 15 for swearing & some f***ing postcards

Is swearing in art big & clever? No? But is it funny? No? And has that stopped me? Also no! A photo essay of sorts.

Apr 3 • 

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March 2025

📙 #057 - Pastels and Apocalyptic Albums

Mainly pictures, some words a bit of music and other people's knitting machine videos.

Mar 20 • 

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📙 #056 - How to tell when your art is bad

But also, how to tell when it's good. A quick rule of thumb.

Mar 6 • 

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February 2025

📙 #055 - Supergraphics, Stampy Stomper, Philosophy and an abrupt ending.

# SUPERGRAPHICS

Feb 20 • 

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📙 #054 - What if my hands stop working?

Slightly different one this week, a more personal story.

Feb 6 • 

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January 2025

📙 #053 - Ink tests, nearly science, almost a zine, and America WTF?

Skip the first part to jump straight to the art!

Jan 23 • 

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📙 #052 - minimum value newsletter, a zine and the least amount of ink information possible.

In which I detail three things I've started. It's a short one this week, and I mean actually short!

Jan 9 • 

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December 2024

📙 #051 - PTPX Postcards, imaginary executive pen plotting desk, and Kitty the AI Witch

Pen plotting on the kitchen table, a dangerous desk, and life with a mystical AI witch to guide us through the wheel of the year.

Dec 26, 2024 • 

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🍿 #051 Mini - 80s Pop Roxy Bonus Pack

A little detour into my upcoming ArtBlocks drop.

Dec 19, 2024 • 

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📙 #050 - Kaleidoscopic Workflow

At last, I’ve got my act together enough to post the third part of this little pen plotting adventure from newsletters #047 and #048 - with some online…

Dec 12, 2024 • 

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November 2024

📙 #049 "Mini" - Lying to Printers, Plotter traitor

p5.plotSvg, a dataviz job, painting with plotters course, ArtFrame plotter, and far too much maths about a printer

Nov 28, 2024 • 

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📙 #048 - Truncated Optimisation

Learning to let go of control and embrace randomness in pen plotting, then immediately regaining control, because that's how we roll; uptightly.

Nov 14, 2024 • 

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