Course dev update: Lost in Gradation 🤷‍♂️

Hey there, ✌️

I hope you are well! Here the summer has fully arrived and enjoy the last weeks in Paderborn. Already at the beginning/mid of August I will leave for Barcelona and move my center of life to this beautiful city. The preparations are in full swing and I'm in the process of becoming a hardcore minimalist. It feels great to get rid of old stuff. 

A lot has happened this week:

New work for the New York Times 🗽

A second time I had the honor to develop a visual for the New York Times. It's an illustration for an essay by investigative journalist Julia Angwin. I've published a case study about the project on my website.

• https://timrodenbroeker.de/nytimes-encryption/
• Here's the article

Bauhaus Livestream 🎞

On Thursday I streamed the announced Bauhaus Challenge on Youtube. It was great fun, especially because some of you were live in the chat. Thanks again for that! I will share the recording of the stream here on Patreon soon. I'm currently thinking about repeating such livestreams in a certain rhythm. What do you think about that?

Lost in Gradation 🆘

I've been trying to make progress on the Gradation course for the last few days, however I'm currently having a mathematical problem that I can't get solved. Maybe you can help me? In the video I explain where it hangs. Also i attached the code to this post. You can see the interim state of the course here: 

• https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/gradation/

Digital Gardening 🌿

The last weeks I launched a small side-project, inspired by the idea of digital gardening. It was brought to my attention by Alex Muñuz, who has been part of this Patreon community for a long time and with whom I became friends in Barcelona. A Digital Garden is a website where authors publish text fragments, small sketches and ideas. Similar to a blog, but much more unstructured. More like a box of notes. The ideas grow over time, new ones are constantly added, and if all goes well, they become full essays. That's the goal of digital gardening. I found the idea so wonderful that I directly built such a digital garden for myself. The texts are all in German. I will translate some of the articles into English and publish them on timrodenbroeker.de, if the topic suits.

• https://garden.timrodenbroeker.de/
• Here’s a nice post about the subject

Demystify Technology ✊

The first finished text in my Digital Garden is called "Demystify Technology" and is basically the story of my interpretation of Creative Coding and the focus in my work.

• German version
• English version

As always: Every comment makes me happy, so please, do not be afraid to leave a little feedback!

Greetings and see you next week! ☀️

Tim