September 2022

good news everyone

@eleven_ty @pdehaan Evergreen thanks also to @stuntbox, without whom I might never have gotten past being intimidated by the command line and static site generators. They’ve improved my web life so much over the past seven years. 🙌🏻

I’ve been coding plusequals.art entirely by hand up until now (apart from the SVG), but I’m happy to say I’m just about done moving it onto @eleven_ty, and it’s been easier than expected! Big thanks to @pdehaan for his help with the final hurdle: github.com/11ty/eleventy/…

Plus Equals #6 shipping to subscribers today!

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I’m supposed to be en route to @OIAF_Animation right now, but had to cancel my trip last-minute. I’ve been sulking about it all day, but reading about draftees fleeing Russia really puts my stuck-at-home troubles in perspective. nytimes.com/2022/09/22/wor…

Or if you prefer your scribbles all in front of you at once, there is a poster: shop.robweychert.com/products/plus-…

If you’re into the idea of paging through hundreds of systematically generated scribbles, Plus Equals #6 is just what the doctor ordered: shop.robweychert.com/products/plus-…

I’m looking for more ways to share what I’ve learned. If you would be interested in a workshop on creative coding, design, and/or zinemaking, please take this brief survey: forms.gle/He9L6rzudCrty6…

As always, you can read Plus Equals online for free, and if you enjoy my work, please consider supporting it by buying a zine or poster from my shop. shop.robweychert.com

Also included: a crash course in the (relatively uncomplicated!) mechanics of Bézier curves, and some topical handwringing on the subject of AI art.

For this issue, I wanted to see if a series of loose, seemingly spontaneous images could be produced via a rigid system. Spoiler: They can, and I’ve algorithmically generated 562 unique scribbles to prove it.

The sixth issue of Plus Equals, my algorithmic art zine, is out now! plusequals.art/06/

For some reason, this round of “stop crying, corporate consolidation is actually great!” takes on Design Twitter is really bumming me out.

This punchline is too perfect. thenib.com/consolidated/

Whether you wear them or like looking at people who do, whether it’s about comfort or style, pick your poison:

It’s rare for me to go to an arena show, and when I do, I generally expect the lack of intimacy to seriously diminish the experience. This was certainly the case for Mastodon, who absolutely demolished the basements and bars I saw them play years ago, but they couldn’t energize me in nearly the same way from across Trenton’s cavernous Cure Insurance Arena. The fact that I haven’t paid much attention to their last few… See more →

How it started: philadelphiaweekly.com/the-bitcoin-bo…

How it’s going: post-gazette.com/news/state/202…

Note the passive voice where the second article references the first: “In local media, Mr. Vo was championed as Pennsylvania’s cryptocurrency luminary.”

Both articles have the same byline. 😂

In addition to being a bit of an homage to Reid Miles and Saul and Elaine Bass, this project gave me a good opportunity to play around with a Python script I wrote for @drawbotapp to make abstract geometric images from linear halftones. twitter.com/robweychert/st…

I love that @marcthiele always commissions inspiring opening titles to kick off his @btconf events, and I had a lot of fun putting this jazzy sequence together for this year’s Berlin edition: vimeo.com/744154897

Relocating Philip Marlowe from 1940s Los Angeles to 1970s London is such a patently terrible idea that it’s no wonder no one involved in this seems to make much of an effort. But some contributions seem actively intent on dragging it down even further, most notably the tacky TV movie aesthetics and Candy Clark’s embarrassing, absolutely ridiculous take on Camilla (née Carmen) Sternwood. Awful.