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I’m Gareth. I’m an accidental developer. I never dreamt or intended to be a developer but have found myself in this role. One of my friends who has a similar working life is a Creative Technologist. I think the differences between our roles entitles him to this stature. Maybe these differences (among other things) are why i’m now taking a Masters in Interactive Media. I’m not quite sure what the other things are yet but perhaps I will reveal them to myself during the two years of my course which I will be documenting to one degree or another here at NotFig.

openFrameworks workshop – London 2009 0

made with openFrameworks from openFrameworks on Vimeo. This weekend saw the second London based openFrameworks workshop. It was kindly organized by Ruiri Glynn who writes the blog Interactive Architecture and hosted by UCL’s MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation at which Ruiri lectures. Other notable contributors were Memo Akten who seems to be prolific in the [...]

Urban mobility 2

Sunday @ 1pm Outside Liverpool Street Station (Bishopsgate exit – top of the escalators) I am aware that any of my generous friends who are taking part in this little jaunt are unaware of the reasoning behind it. During this realisation I have become aware that I am wrestling with the very same problem. In [...]

Scintillating 2

SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo. This combination of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques is the most stunning piece of video I have seen in quite a while. The film is entirely constructed from 35000 still images which enables the supremely detailed and high quality shifts in depth of focus. I personally have [...]

More video from the event 0

Some wonderful editing from Nico and some great voxpopping from (supposedly shy in front of the public) Brittany. G

Video from the Coin Laundry Orchestra 2

Coin Laundry Orchestra from Gareth Foote on Vimeo. I have plenty to say about my experience at the Coin Laundry on Sunday. Overall it went well and was a great experience however there is plenty of room for constructive self criticism. I will not be getting into the details of this reflection in this post [...]