This year we decided to move to Italy. It is very beautiful, peaceful and a great place to feel creative.
Busana Vecchia, Liguria, Italy
If you need to get in touch, please email me – I am using work@sfsw.net for initial contact…
Triora Italy
A day in the mountains – the village of Triora famous for burning witches (in the middle ages).
Italy Photos – Arma di Taggia
New series of photographs taken in July 2016, in Italy.
Poetry publication
Poetry Publishing project
from Ben Barton‘s site:
“…some of the UK’s best small-press magazines such as iota, Chroma, Pulsar, South, Neon Highway…”
Graphing unusual things
New Videos
Recently made this video of Fiona Scott-Wilson’s hands at work, making her cut paper art.
And a very short video filming spiders in the bathroom having a dance together with music made on Garage Band.
Looks like I am making videos again, finally.
Software Antelope
My brand new company for delivering software development projects and contracting is called Software Antelope Ltd.
Das Fluff gig photos
Photos of Das Fluff performance at Dublin Castle on 25 July 2015 by Nicholas Alexander.
Das Fluff who performed courageously against some of the most challenging technical hitches in a gig that featured new songs Pleasure, Fuck the Trees and STFU.
“London quartet have carved quite a niche for themselves in the form of sleazy, strobe-laden, electro-pop slathered in dominatrix-esque vocals that turn you on and make you feel like dirt all in the utterance of an elongated vowel” – review from listenwithmonger
“Dawn Lintern performs live with ironic melodrama via an eternally corrupting elegance. Her statuesque figure carving the air, suddenly desperation floods with neurotic charm and she is slithering into the audience. She is perfectly offset by the powerful and inventive lead guitar of Steve May. Their show has toured to Japan and we now have Tokyo Daisuki. Something new electric and alive.”
from Riginality.co.uk review by Nicholas Alexander
What I am reading
Fiction
The Sleepwakers Introduction to Flight
Technical
The GO Language by google
D3 – data visualisation for the web
Data Visualisation is achieved by sending data to a client, and then mapping it with JS. Mike Bostock has developed a library called d3js that uses SVG to draw tables and graphs.
The graph area is created with width and height in an SVG space. The SVG object is then decorated with bars, line paths, text, tables and/or other graphic objects.
The graph may be scaled from MIN to MAX, often populated by 0 .. d3.max(array)
The graph is rendered using a transform, that translates the array elements into the graphic.
Stack Exchange
I have started to engage in Stack Exchange – tech questions in Stack Overflow, and joined two other boards: English Usage and Grammar and Philosophy. It is somehow a great way to stay connected with technology between assignments.