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Annual Review News

Review of 2013

As the new year starts I like to reflect on the past year, and it’s become quite the annual tradition. Clearly this is quite a self indulgent activity, and I do it more as a reminder to myself than anything else. That said, I’ve really enjoyed reading my friends’ yearly reviews, Remy, Simon, Laura, and […]

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Lunar Trails comes to Brussels

Right in the middle of the PixelPyros tour, I’m taking a minor detour to Belgium where I’ll be installing Lunar Trails at the Bozar Night 2013. There’ll be several other digital installations and performances, check it out if you’re in the area.

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PixelPyros – call for sponsors

In the final run up to the first date at Nottingham GameCity, it’s about time I make one more push for sponsors. It’s a chance to have your name associated with this massive installation that’s travelling around the country. And we’re already getting some sniffing around from the TV stations, so we’re hoping it’ll get […]

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I need your help – November PixelPyros dates available

We’ve just heard that one of the PixelPyros tour locations is having trouble with its funding so may have to cancel, which could leave us with a gap in our schedule for November. So I’m asking for help – if you know any event, council or company that might want a digital interactive fireworks display […]

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Lasers

PixelPyros development – working with lasers part 2

In the first part of this series, we looked at the basics of how scanning lasers work, so now we’ll cover the equipment that you need and how it all connects together. Photo: FFP Laser systems Reminder : lasers are dangerous and you can permanently damage your retina. If you’re interested in working with lasers, […]

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Lasers

PixelPyros development – working with lasers part 1

Photo : Dave Wilson Over the next few weeks I’ll be working hard on new features of PixelPyros, and I thought it’d be fun to share what I’ve learned. I’m going to start with lasers. Because, well, because lasers. First, a quick word of warning: Lasers are dangerous and you can seriously damage your eyes […]

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PixelPyros digital fireworks – tour funded!

Thanks to your amazing response to my request for help finding venues, I’m excited to announce that the PixelPyros tour is now definitely happening – we have 9 dates in 5 UK cities across two months starting at the end of September. It’s been an insanely busy time – as soon as we had a […]

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Securing my WordPress sites

I’ve recently had a horrible bout of spam bots attacking CreativeJS.com, so I thought I’d write a (rather mundane but hopefully useful) post about what I’ve done to combat them, as much to serve as a reminder to myself as much as anything. Robot attack by flickr.com/donsolo TL;DR Install Anti-spam plugin Install All in One […]

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CreativeJS comes to Manchester and Amsterdam

[UPDATE] Ticket sales start on Thursday 16th May 11am. Yes! Lots more workshops coming! I’m running both CreativeJS 2D and the brand new CreativeJS Games workshops in Amsterdam and Manchester in June. Tickets go on sale next Tuesday 14th May at 11am on Thursday 16th May at 11am but in the meantime, save the dates […]

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Podcast

Yes! I have a podcast!

I’m always astonished how many people I know don’t realise that I have a podcast. So to address this, and also to celebrate our new half-hour weekly format, I thought I’d post about it! In the last 4 weeks we’ve had some spectacular guests : Brendan Dawes, Jer Thorp, Stacey Mulcahey, and Clare Sutcliffe from […]