My trick for compressing SVGs
3/25/2025The technique I used to for compressing SVG data by 93% for use in generative art systems by reducing markup into a series of basic instructions. ...
Writings
Generative Art & Permanence
3/20/2025In the twenty years I've been practicing it, I've witnessed numerous communities grow and shudder, services shut down, databases corrupted, and businesses pivot to new models. When these things happen...
Why I use Fountain pens with pen plotters
6/18/2024First, I fell in love with code. Then came pen plotters because I could use code to instruct them to draw things that I found beautiful. After that, I fell in love with inks because my drawings needed...
Building an interactive plotter art installation
2/4/2024Building an interactive art installation requires careful planning and application architecture. In this post, I will explain my decisions and how I arrived at them....
An Artblocks Retrospective
1/5/2023ORI is a long-form generative art project I released on Artblocks in November 2022. Making 450 unique mints involved carefully balancing variability and consistency to achieve my vision of unique and ...
Code Review: Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs
12/15/2021This series explores the code that powers generative art in the metaverse. The goal is to break down different approaches to making art with code and understand how different artists are adding unique...
How to endorse your entire Linkedin friends list for “Bow Hunting”
9/22/2016LinkedIn is where professionals go to socialize. Built on the promise of new opportunity, LinkedIn is the Facebook of the corporate world. It’s the cheesy recruiter emails, profile view notifications,...
