Hello folks,
I hope you are well!
Maybe you have already noticed: In the last few days some changes have been made to the interface of the website, because I have cleaned it up: To make it easier for new students to get started, I have removed all sub-items from the "Learn" menu, and the link now leads directly to the courses. From my point of view this makes sense. There you will now also find the most important quests as prepared courses. I call this new category "Projects" now....
2022-05-06 14:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello folks, ✋
I hope you are doing well! It's the last Friday of the month and so I'm sending you a new Quest again. This month it's about generative design and visualization of music. For this I provide you with a dataset that I generated from the notes of the Prelude in C by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Learn more here -> https://tim...
2022-04-29 14:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Dear folks, 🙌
I hope you are well!
Today is Friday and that's why I'm sending you an update again. There are two things I would like to tell you about:
The open call for DEMO 2022 is live! Submit your work and participate!
I announced it before: I'm curating the DEMO festival this year and I'm taking care of the selection of submissions with a focus on creative coding and generative design. You can submit your work until the end of ...
2022-04-22 14:32:13 +0000 UTC
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Dear community, 🌎
today i send you a new Spotlight: Say hi to the amazing Lily Montague!
Lily studies Creative Computing and Design in London and have been in my community for a long time. i sneaked them into one of my university courses (which was kind of illegal) and we've been in touch ever since. 🙂 i find it totally inspiring to watch a young person enthusiastically making their way into the world of computation. I ...
2022-04-15 14:30:44 +0000 UTC
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Hello folks, ✋
i hope you are doing well! Here are some news of what's going on behind the scenes:
1 I'm now working intensively on my master's thesis, a book called "Creative Coding as a School of Thought". It's about what creative coding is, how the learning process works, what opportunities it offers and how it can be used as a method. The whole thing is designed as a kind of guide for aspiring creative coders. I will hand it in at the end of...
2022-04-15 09:06:32 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! 🙌
Hope you guys are doing well!!! I wanted to share two quick things with you guys:
Join us for the first Quest Q&A !
Next Tuesday, April 12, 2022 I will start a Q&A about the current quest (theme: "ASCII Adventures") via Discord at 6pm (CET). There you can ask your questions, get inspiration a...
2022-04-05 20:22:46 +0000 UTC
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Hello people, 🖐️
it's the end of the month and so it's time for a new quest! April 2022 is all about ASCII characters.
Here you can find the complete briefing.
https://timrodenbroeker.de/quests/ascii-adventures/
There is now also an archive where you can find all quests in one overview.
2022-03-31 08:59:16 +0000 UTC
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Hello people, ✋
I hope you are well! This week Matejko (one of my patrons) has made a great suggestion. He said it would be very helpful for everyone if there was a place where we can share our social media channels, websites and blogs so you can get to know each other's work better. That's why I created a Google Sheet and I would be really happy if you would put your links there. This way we can network with each other much more effectively.
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2022-03-25 14:34:25 +0000 UTC
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Hello folks, ✋
I hope you are well!
first of all I would like to thank those who participated in my survey. It helped me a lot to get a clear view. Thank you very much!
This week I'd like to share a little teaser of my planned course "Programming Posters". You could think of it as the finale of the Processing Curriculum, because that was the name of my very first Creative Coding course at a design school, and my courses were planned from the beginning to l...
2022-03-18 15:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Dear You,
I would like to invite you to participate briefly in answering my survey. It's about the courses I'm developing next and also for general feedback. I just want to better understand what interests you to take this into account in my planning.
Would you answer 5 questions for me?
https://forms.gle/fGnSiRz8jHaxtoXy8
Thank you for your support! 🙏
2022-03-11 20:49:11 +0000 UTC
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Hey you, ☀️
i hope you are doing good!
I've got some great news: This year, i'll be a part of the curation team of the DESIGN IN MOTION Festival, that will take place in the Netherlands. Here's the story:
Imagine if the majority of all outdoor displays in public spaces were broadcasting the best of design and moving image instead of commercial advertising. This is exactly the idea behind the DEMO Festival, wh...
2022-03-11 14:42:26 +0000 UTC
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Dear friends,
I'm totally excited to finally share an exciting new Community Spotlight with you today featuring the awesome Yehwan Song. Many of you should know Yehwan by now: The artist with a degree in graphic design comes from South Korea and develops websites that break all patterns and conventions in their form and function. Yehwan shows what the web browser can really do and what the internet could be like. 🔥
In the intervi...
2022-03-04 15:17:39 +0000 UTC
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Dear community,
like me, I'm sure you are immensely concerned about what is happening in Ukraine. Putin's aggressive war and threatening rhetoric is spreading great fear all over the world.
In the last few days, I have been thinking about whether and how I should comment on what happened as part of my work as a community builder. I have reflected on this in various conversations with friends. In the process, it became clear to me that I can definitely do something. Oder better sai...
2022-03-01 16:01:21 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! ✋
I hope that all of you are well despite the political events. Starting this month, as I have already announced on Wednesday, I'm launching a new format called Quests:
Every first Friday of the month, you will get an exercise from me, which you can solve in four weeks. Here's the brief:
Computational Collagi...
2022-02-25 15:01:34 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! ✋
I hope you are all doing well!
This week I'm introducing an important new feature called Quests! I will be sending you a creative challenge every month from now on that you can solve over the course of 4 weeks.
Background
Background: I've heard over and over again from patrons and students over the past few months that while they really like my courses, they would like a creative nudge that they can use to sta...
2022-02-23 16:03:56 +0000 UTC
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Hello folks,
I hope you are all doing well! You may be surprised that I'm not writing until Friday this week, I feel like this is a better time since you'll have time to get caught up on the post over the weekend. I think this is a good idea.
Here's the latest news in a nutshell
- The PGraphics course is fully recorde...
2022-02-18 11:27:27 +0000 UTC
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Hi folks!
A few weeks ago I got in touch with André Burnier, who has been wowing people with great typographic creative coding experiments on Instagram for quite some time now. So I asked him if he could imagine sharing a short video tutorial about his great experiments with type in Processing with my community. I didn’t expect him to present a whole 10 methods in detail and comprehensively in a 50-minute talk with lots of illustrations. I am very ...
2022-02-09 13:14:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, ✌️
finally I can share with you my new course "Basic Datastructures" which is all about arrays in Processing.
This course is a totally important component in my curriculum and lays the foundation for working with data structures.
https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/basic-datastructures/
I am very happy about your feedback on this. Let me know...
2022-02-03 11:59:52 +0000 UTC
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Dear friends, ✌️
It's funny, but there are those times when creativity just sparkles. I'm in such a phase right now, which may also have something to do with the fact that my master's degree is coming to an end and I'm now coming to answers in the topics I've been working on. The last 10 days I've published a whole 4 new blogposts, dealing among other things with topics from my studies, i.e. the philosophy of Creative Coding. Okay, but one by one, first things first...
2022-01-26 11:28:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
I you are doing well! I'm doing fine and in this video I want to update you on the latest developments.
In short:
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the livestream was amazing!
Thanks to all those people who joined it.
You can rewatch all five episodes on Youtube
Episode 1
2022-01-19 15:45:23 +0000 UTC
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Hello creative coders, ✋
i hope you are doing well! As announced last week my livestream marathon is running on Youtube this week and in this post I want to share the complete code for it with you. Next week I will send an update again!
Feel free to tinker around w...
2022-01-12 11:19:48 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! 🖐️
Next week I'm doing a new experiment:
My plan is to develop an interactive 3D Experience in Processing. On 5 days, from Monday to Friday, at noon, I will stream the development process live on YouTube and you can become a part of this project through commenting the stream or on Discord. 💥️
I will provide you with the complete code via Patreon, so you can experiment with it.
At the end there will be a "supercut", a video th...
2022-01-05 15:59:31 +0000 UTC
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Dear community,
I wish you all a healthy and successful year 2022! ☀️
Today I'm writing to you in between with some technical info: I'm working on the WordPress base of timrodenbroeker.de this week to fix some issues.
I'm doing my best to make sure you won't notice anything about the update. If something goes wrong and you have problems (that don't resolve in on...
2022-01-03 16:57:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, ✋
I hope you are doing well! With this post, i would like to reflect on a very special year.
2021 started with tremendous challenges. Besides my job as a web developer, where a massive project for an art-museum demanded a lot of my time, I also had to manage 2 te...
2021-12-30 08:04:14 +0000 UTC
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Dear community, 🖐️
I finally did it: The new course "Waves" is now as good as finished and available on my website from today! It's all about waves and their application in motion graphics with Processing. The course contains dozens of examples with code snippets and many different ideas for applications. I had a lot of fun with it and learned a lot myself.
https://timrodenbro...
2021-12-23 14:49:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey there! ✋
I returned from Spain yesterday and look back on beautiful 9 days. It was just great! I met Martin Lorenz there and we had many inspiring conversations in and around Barcelona. Now I am looking positively into the new year full of new ideas! 🔥
Content of the video in a nutshell:
- A huge THANK YOU to all my supporters on Patreon
- New blogpost about Martin's book "Flexible Visual Systems".
- I built a hand...
2021-12-16 14:52:30 +0000 UTC
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Hey people, ✋
I hope you are all well! I escaped the cold and wet weather in Germany and am now on the Spanish coast in Cubellas. ☀️ Here I recorded a new session yesterday, again dedicated to "Sketching Strategies".
The most effective way to learn Creative Coding is to come up with your own experimental project and execute it consistently. This is quite a challenge and raises many conceptual questions. If you don't create a clear framework for yoursel...
2021-12-09 08:47:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
I hope you are well! Today I would like to talk about a problem in the sketching process. By this I mean creative work, whether in Processing, p5.js or other similar languages.
Maybe you know the problem: You want to experiment and sketch freely with code, but you don’t know how and where to put your sketches on your computer? This obstacle may already be secretly keeping you from really getting started.
In this video, I’ll show you how to create a foundati...
2021-12-01 12:50:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey there! 🖐️
A few days ago I got a message from a very nice person named Julia who is interested in my courses, but is not quite sure which programming language to learn. Like many of my students, she is afraid to make a false decision and wrong turn, so she asked me for my advice. Since this question is quite crucial, I am publishing a detailed answer ...
2021-11-24 08:08:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends! ☀️
This year I donated $700 to the Processing Foundation to support people who care about the development of p5.js and Processing. To my surprise, Daniel Shiffman personally contacted me and offered...
2021-11-23 15:12:17 +0000 UTC
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