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New Conversation: Ksawery Komputery
Dear patrons, ✌️I hope you are all well!Today I am thrilled to present you a giant portion of inspiration for the weekend and for the next days. For me, it’s one of most inspiring code-based and generative projects i have seen so far and i was very keen to share it with you: “Symphony in Acid”, a collaboration between Ksawery Kirklewski and musician Max Cooper. The interactive, completely browser-based music video was developed entirely in HTML, CSS and Javascript with p5.js and fuses Max’s wonderful electronic music wit typographic...
A brief survey about future courses 🔥
Hi folks, ☀️I hope you are well!During the last months I have accumulated lots of ideas for new courses. To name a number: I've started over 30 different projects in total. To get some clarity on what is important to you, I need your feedback: Please fill out the survey once and select the courses from the list that you think I should prioritize in my planning.--> https://forms.gle/GDBJf3rP4e3o4xe78Please see the video for details on each course.Have a wonderful weekend!Warm greets, ✌️Tim
New essay: On AI
Dear patrons,I hope you are well! ☀️Last week I announced that I'm currently working on an article about AI, including the relationship between AI and Ceative Coding. I finally finished it on wednesday. For me, it was enormously important to sort out my thoughts with it and to state my personal stance on the topic.https://timrodenbroeker.de/on-ai/Philosophizing about technology is becoming more and more important in these unbelievable times and I'm sure you've already noticed that my thoughts revolve a lot around this range of t...
New course: Sketching with Code 🎨
Hi folks, ☀️i hope you are doing well!It's finally done! "Sketching with code" is finally out! This course is all about the sketching process in creative coding, how you to structure your sketchbook folder, create your individual archive of ideas and to efficiently navigate this archive. It’s actually a collection of best practices and tricks that I learned throughout the last years.Check it out!---Next up: GradationNext I will focus on finishing “Gradation”, a course which explains how to create grids with flexible tile-s...
Course preview: Sketching with Code 🔥
Hi folks, ✌️i hope you are well! i have a preview of a course for you again today, and i would love to collect feedback from you. Sketching with Code is about how to create your individual sketchbook on your hard drive that will allow you to find all your ideas at a later time. This will also help you remove some really big obstacles and give your sketching process a clean structure.i am very much looking foward t read your comments!Have a great weekend! ☀️TimPS: I gave an interview for Elisava, the design-academy i worked at in Barcelo...
New Conversation: Monica Losada
Dear Patrons, ☀️I hope you are well! After 14 Weeks of traveling and a trip back to Paderborn with stops in Stuttgart (for a workshop at AbK) and Prague (for a talk at Mouvo Conference, i finally arrived in good old and calm Paderborn. I have thousands of new encounters and impressions to process and i am incredibly grateful that i had the opportunity for this amazing journey! Now my thoughts circle around moving to Barcelona and setup() and draw() my life there. :-)While the next course "Gradation" is being diligently worked on in ...
Patreon-Exclusive recording of my talk for Decimal Studios, New York
Hello dear people! 👋🏼I hope you are all well! I am now on my way back to Germany. Actually I'm in Prague at the Mouvo Festival right now, but after that I'm going back to Germany after 14 weeks in Barcelona. I'm really looking forward to my friends and my own four walls.Today I'm sending you a recording of my talk "Creative Coding as a School of Thought", which I've given at various venues in the meantime. Basically it's about a series of thoughts around Creative Coding, which I developed during my master s...
Course release: "Form follows Music" 🎉
Dear Patrons, ✌️Thank you very much for your many comments on my last video! 🙏 It made me very happy to see that you are so interested in the course "Form follows Music"! Now it is finally done: I have completely finished the course this week and have recorded the last two videos, which I have edited together for you in this video.Here is the link: https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/form-follows-music/A very hard obstacle for me was the lesson with the two-dimensional distribution of the one-dimensional data array using the modul...
Course preview: "Form follows Music"
Hello folks, ☀️I hope you are all well! I've been working this week on my course "Form follows Music", which should be out soon. In it, I'm covering the generative visualization of a famous piano piece: the Prelude in C by Johann Sebastian Bach.Here I send you the first three freshly recorded videos from the course, all strung together and combined into one video. I would like to ask you for your feedback. What do you think of my explanations? I am still in Barcelona and only used a headset as microphone. Do you mind the low...
A conversation with Soyun Park ☀️
Hi folks! ☀️I hope you are well! This week I share a new conversation with you. And it's with the great Soyun Park. I met her at a party hosted by Vera van de Seyp in Rotterdam, when I was working for Studio Dumbar and DEMO Festival. Soyun impressed me a lot in our first conversation and I want to share her thoughts with you.https://timrodenbroeker.de/soyun-park/I hope you enjoy the interview. What do you find particularly exciting? What is going through your minds? Feel free to let me know in the comments.I wish you a great weekend,Gre...
UX Update / Creative Coding Barcelona
Hi folks! ☀️My residency in Barcelona is very slowly coming to an end. On April 16th I will travel to Stuttgart to give a workshop at the "Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste". This will be exciting, because I will meet a lot of interesting people again. Among others Patrick Thomas. After that I'll go directly to Prague, where I'll give a talk at the Mouvo conference. After that I'll be back in Paderborn, and then some much calmer weeks will follow. After almost four months of living out of a suitcase and a lot of ...
A conversation with Yannick Gregoire
Hi folks! ✌️I hope you are well. Today I'm sharing a new conversation with you: Yannick Gregoire is from Amsterdam, works there as a frontend developer and creates highly interesting experiments with processing, the results of which he shares on Instagram. In the interview we talk about his creative strategies, we speculate about the future of graphic design and exchange ideas about exciting frameworks. 🔥Behind the scenes: UX improvementsAlso, there's been a lot happening on the website again this week: I'm working on a speci...
Vera Molnar Reconstructed 3/3
Hello folks, ✌️I hope you are all well! This week was totally busy. I teach at Elisava in March and on Wednesday I gave a talk about my master thesis. The hall was pretty full and I had a lot of fun. However, it was also really exhausting and now I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend.I would have been super happy to share the recording of the talk with you guys, however there were technical issues there and the audio wasn't included. 🙈Wednesday I streamed the last part of my series "Vera Molnar Reconstructed" and as p...
Livestream / New Feature: Monthly Matters / Creative Coding Barcelona
Hello dear patrons, ☀️I hope you are all well! Wow, this week I really have a lot to share!Recording of Tuesdays livestreamIn this post you will find the recording from Tuesday's livestream. I'm attaching the code with it here.Next livestream next week: Wednesday instead of Tuesday!Beware: The next and last livestream of the series "Vera Molnar Reconstructed" will not take place on Tuesday next week, but on Wednesday! Unfortunately I had to postpone it, because my teaching schedule at Elisava starts on Tuesday. So: Wednesday...
Here is the recording of the livestream from Tuesday (fixed!)
Update: Sorry, the link to the video was broken for any reason, i just reuploaded the video to Vimeo so now it works. Enjoy!---Hello folks! ✌️I hope you are well! As promised, today I send you the link to the recording of the livestream from last Tuesday. As always, feel free to let me know what you think!Next Tuesday I'll start the second round with my series "Vera Molnar Reconstructed"! I'm really looking forward to it.Here's the link for the next session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPudNi8u1-EAgain, it starts on ...
Livestream announcement: Vera Molnar Reconstructed
Hello friends, ✌️I hope you are doing well! As you know I put a lot of energy into the course "Molnar Reconstructed" in the last weeks. In the next weeks I want to deepen the topic and that's why I'm planning several livestream sessions right now, which I want to share with you via Patreon. 🔥 Be there live and watch me recreate Vera Molnar's abstract compositions. Feel free to comment, of course, and the video will also be available to watch later.These are the dates: Tuesday, February 21st, 4pm (CET) Tuesday, Februar...
Creative Coding Barcelona
Hello you, ☀️I hope you are well! I’m sending you some good vibes from Barcelona!After 3 weeks in this beautiful metropole, I have now settled in quite well here. I really like it a lot here and I will stay until mid-April. Maybe longer :-)I had the great luck to find a wonderful coworking space (called Glashaus) with the best colleagues on this planet right away and this is my home base so to speak. Accommodation-wise, I still haven't arrived and I keep changing places. But it's also very exciting, because I always get to meet ne...
New course draft: Molnar Reconstructed ☀️
Dear people, ☀️greetings from beautiful Barcelona. I'm here for the second week now and have met some great people in the meantime. I'm even in the process of planning a casual "Creative Coding Barcelona" meetup, we've started a WhatsApp group and if you're also from the area I'd be very happy if you join as well. Other than that, I'm making great progress. I'm working intensively on the book I'm developing with Martin and also on a course that this update will be about.Molnar ReconstructedAs you prob...
Greetings from Barcelona / Call for corrections! 🔍
Hey there, ✌️i hope you are doing well!Today i send you some warm and sunny greetings from one of the most beautiful cities i have ever seen: Right now i am sitting in a co-working space called “Glashaus” in a district called “Poblenou”. There are great people working here who I hope to get to know better over the next few weeks.In the last few months I've put a lot of energy into translating all the courses and lessons into p5.js. Although the syntax of Processing and p5.js is very similar there are some very important differen...
Lena Weber on "Ambiguous Aesthetics" 🔥
I've been working intensively with Lena Weber for the last few months. First we realized the project for Slate+Ash together, which worked out great. Since then she's been supporting me intensively as a freelancer, translated hundreds of code snippets from Processing to p5.js, unified all lessons and gave me extremely valuable feedback.Furthermore, Lena wrote a brilliant master thesis about the aesthetics of creative coding, about which I did an interview with her. Be sure to check it out!https://timrodenbroeker.de/lena-weber/
My first week in Spain
Dear you,today I send you many sunny greetings from Cubelles south of Barcelona! On Sunday, I arrived here in this beautiful little town by the sea, where time stands virtually still. I had Monday then the whole day to take a long walk by the sea and arrive here inwardly. After the turbulent week full of traveling through Germany and an intensive workshop at the Filmakademie Baden Württemberg, that was really relaxing.Martin then arrived on Tuesday and we used every day for long walks, deep conversations and intensive work phases. For those wh...
A brief update on my progress, plans and priorities 🧭
Hey! I hope you are well! 🙌It's time again for a personal video, in which I want to give you an overview of what's coming up, what ideas I have and what priorities I set.In short and concise it's about the following topics:- My time in Barcelona- Working with Martin Lorenz- Decisions in website design- Conversations as a content format- Podcast? (Just an idea) - All courses are now bilingual- New course outlinesAs always, I totally appreciate your feedback! What do you think of my current route? Is there anything you would like t...
Milestone reached: All public courses are now ported to p5.js!
Hey there, ☀️here's a quick update: The courses "Modulo Mixtape" and "Advanced Layout Techniques" are now completely translated to p5.js. This makes the complete curriculum now bilingual: All code blocks in the lessons are now available for Processing as well as for p5.Check it out:https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/pgraphics/https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/modulo/ For me, this is a very important milestone and I would love to thank all those who helped reaching this goal! 💙Warm greetings,Tim
New Tutorial: Creating a network diagram with object oriented programming in Processing
Hey there!I hope you are well and you have slipped easy into the new year! 🍾Today I post here a new tutorial, In which I explain and use the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. This is a super important principle in coding that opens up a new universe of possibilities.Till now I used to avoid working with O.O.P. to keep the courses all low-level. But in the meantime, however, the curriculum has been developed to such an extent that I am slowly starting to find simple explanations and metaphors This is my first test. That's why i...
My new course "Modulo Mixtape" is out now! 🔥
Dear you,I hope you're well and had a great christmas time 🎄 (assuming you celebrate this holiday at all). Finally I can share my new course "Modulo Mixtape" with you today! Admittedly, it took me much longer than originally planned and I didn't stick to the plans in the roadmap. I feel a bit bad about this... But i am also very pleased because this course adds a simple tool to the curriculum that you can use in a variety of ways in your work.For me, developing this course was very interesting and also tedious, because I have...
Back from Munich / Spain / New lessons / happy holidays!
Dear patron,I hope you are doing well, even though most people are pretty hectic before Christmas. Today I'm going to bring you up to date on what's going on behind the scenes here.Back from Munich 🎥I was on the road with Martin Lorenz the last few days, we were first in Munich to give an interview at Taaalks, and then Martin came to visit me in Paderborn. Maybe you have already noticed that we are working closely together at the moment. I don't want to give too much away yet, but you can look forward to new, exciting content in ...
You can now comment lessons and courses on timrodenbroeker.de
Dear Patreon community,this is a small update that is very important to me. The backstory is that when I develop the courses, I often do it all by myself. Sure, I do get feedback from the community and sometimes from my students, but I also think I miss a lot because some of you don't use the Discord server and are primarily on the website. For me your feedback is hugely important! That's why I now have a comment function built into the website, which works really straightforward. At the bottom of the lessons you can now click on the bl...
a conversation with Martin Lorenz on the intersection of creative coding and flexible visual systems ✌️
Hey there! ☀️I hope you are enjoing your weekend! Today I am sending you something to read: About two years ago I invited one of my early design heros, Martin Lorenz, for an online talk. Since that day we became close friends and now we are developing ideas on the intersection of flexible visual systems and creative coding to synchronize our teaching content. We have some exciting plans for the next years, so stay tuned! With this interview we want to give you a first glimpse.Read the interviewEnjoy and have a great sunday!Warm greetings,Ti...
"Modulo Mixtape" - exclusive preview 💥
Dear patrons,I hope you are all well! I've been working pretty busy the last few days on the courses. I'm especially happy with the lessons I recorded for Modulo Mixtape, which I share with you today in this preview. The spectrum of possible applications is really amazing: from creating rhythmic patterns to controlling Boomerang animations. And I think there's even more to discover.I will port the code-snippets to p5.js as well in the end when i am finished with the other lessons.In this video I share with you the freshly recorded f...
Mastering the Modulo Operator (%)
Hi everyone,I hope you are doing well!☀️A few weeks ago I published a roadmap for the development of my courses, which should set a tight pace. One of the courses I had planned to publish soon was "Form follows Music". I was supposed to have full mastery of this topic for several reasons: First, the course content is based on a project I already did in 2018 (or was it 2017?), second, I already gave a workshop that was about this very topic. Nevertheless, I had a hard time writing the lessons for this course. The reason: because I ha...
