A clock on a tattoo
A simple tool that picks a random LP from my LP collection.
I grew tired of managing wordpress and other content management systems. And I was bored with their restrictions. So I made my own. It took me 2 days.
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I needed black cable clips, so I made a few.
I needed a digital version of this dutch station clock.
I made this thing. It let’s me choose. Will I be nuanced today? Or shall I sabotage fascism?
I painted this portrait in a four week painting course.
This is a browser plugin that replaces news articles with coloured rectangles when they mention people who get too much attention.
I made a web page, and the pictures for the webpage, for the alternative to the sun.
I made a web page for the typewriter clock.
I made a webpage for this thing I made.
I cut two old book I made into new years cards
I made this thing that shows very colourful images on a black, white and red screen. I am happy with it.
I made a physical typewriter clock from a raspberry pi, a small screen, some glue, some pieces of paper, and some CSS.
I fixed a memory leak which caused a clock in a raspberry pi to crash quite often.
I replaced the dishwasher detergent dispenser.
I finally sat down to translate the fantastic song Ήμουνα μάγκας μια φορά by Markos Vamvakaris from Greek to Dutch.
A raspberry pi with an red, black and white e-paper screen. Every 15 minutes it shows one of the 20000 colourful pictures my server has been generating for years now. Indeed, it shows them in black, white and red.
A cardboard block that shows two sentences that are almost the same on both sides.
Made a rotary clock as a present for a blind friend.
I made this, rather rushed, painting.
I made some small thingies for my mother’s pin.
I cut a piece of 2mm black cardboard into finely measured strokes, and then I glued them together into a case for a screen with a raspberry pi. Lots of work, invisible and underwhelming result.
I bought the Very Bauble font and turned it into a cuckoo clock. It goos from quirky minimalist to hysterical.
I made feet extra for my laser cutter. It can now cut/engrave on up to 7 cm higher material.
I replaced the springs and the belt of the old turntable. Now it’s more springy.
I made a recovery calendar for my father. Since so many people sent me links I made the code available on codeberg.
I rewired my complete turntable. First I replaced the RCA cables with better ones, and then I replaced all the inner wires, in the tone arm. I did it to solve a buzzing sound. Turns out the lamp above the turntable caused this buzz.
I made a clock for my old teachers, and I made this frame for it.
Made a new homepage for my uncle’s photo site, and a way to show images by project.
I made the passive/rather aggressive pins for my daughter.
I made a few very simple dividers for our records. We think that dividing them into genres will make them easier to find.
I made a lounge chair that perfectly fits our old pillows.
I put the literary clock in to a rotary phone.
Made a little thingy for the wire of an old rotary phone. First thing I made with OpenSCAD, and the first thing I printed on my new 3d printer.
A clock that sorts the numbers alphabetically.
Made a well working alternative version of the Pix Clock. If you dial 002 you hear the description of an image with a clock on it; a clock that shows the current time.
Did some thorough maintenance work, and now the rotary phone music player works again.
I made a few drawings during our trips to Sicily and Belgium.
Our old monster book is full, so I made another one, with larger, black flaps this time. Its theme is cucumber salad.
Made a 100 day advent/recovery calendar for my father who — according to his doctor — needs 100 days to recover from an accident.
My father needed all the images on a certain page for his research. So I wrote a script to download all the images, and then I turned it into a pdf, which makes sense to my father.
The Pix Clock is a clock that shows the time by showing pictures of clocks. All these pictures have alternative texts. I put them all into an old rotary phone. Now it you dial 002 you’ll hear the description of a picture that tells the correct time.
Made a rotary phone with all the “unread books” of the Amsterdam Public Library in it. You can dial a number and hear some details about a book. It has a wonderfully sad voice.
Made a simple wordpress theme for the research blogs for the students of the Master Design at the PZi.
Andre is leaving CMD as our manager, so I made an Andre Warhol page for him.
Made a picture of my shadow with a remarkably circular head. Added a clock to it.
Erik van Blokland updated his LTR Limited font, so I made a clock.
Made a random clock.
Made a few drawings in a leporello during our trip to Warsaw.
A few experiments with radial gradient clocks/slow animations.
David Krooshof gave me this clock. I didn’t like its hands, so I made new ones.
My colleague Harma needed blobs for a book she’s making. So I made this page that generates 100 random blobs every time you reload the page. When you click a blob, the code is copied. You can now edit the blob in any vector editing program.
Changed my homepage
Made a physical version of the NCND clock.
An very slow animation that shows the passing of time. Prototypes, still in development.
My students needed to design some interaction, so I made them this simple codepen.
A few experiments with random borders for circular displays. Not good enough yet.
Painted a portrait of a real person.
Changed the website of my teacher Diek Kubbe.
Added sparkles to my hat because that’s the theme tonight.
Fixed my book store. There were some technical issues. I fixed them. There was also the issue that the store was not personal enough. Now, if you want to buy a book the link doesn’t take you to a print-on-demand service. Instead it opens an email with a few pre-filled sentences.
Finished the physical clock I was making for my former teachers. It looks good.
I added icons to all the clocks on this page, so now you can add them to your homescreen of or phone, or add them as apps to your dock.
Dave gave me an idea for a clock. Which turned out to be a great idea. And after playing with it for a while it somehow became an abstract alternative to the sun.
It bothered me that the order of things that I like on the overview page was not based on the most recent thing. So I changed it. Nobody ever noticed, and nobody will ever notice. These details do matter though.
Dave Krooshof came up with the idea of a clock where at the whole hour the minute hand points at the specific hour, instead of pointing at twelve. This turns out to be a wonderful idea, especially for people with OCD. Made a variant where the hour hand always points up, and the face turns instead. Works very well for people with OCD as well. Will write about it in more detail some day.
I made this painting of oranges, lemons, limes and a vase.
After the Dutch elections I made a political clock.
I made a few anti-clocks that solve a few problems.
We wrote the new vision for CMD Amsterdam, the school of design where I work. I published it on a website, of course, and I also put it into this old rotary phone.
I added a tape deck to our collection of mostly analogue music shelves.
Inspired by Jan Verburg’s and Astrid Poot’s leporellos I decided to make a few myself.
A thing in the kitchen broke and I replaced it with a wooden thing and painted it orange, with red sides.
Installed another rain barrel. This one fits neatly in an old outdoor cabinet.
Starting working on a series of big bang clocks.
Turns out the other rain pipe was a bit lower, so after tonights rain, no water ended up in the rain barrel. I think I fixed it with this system of connected pipes.
I installed a rain barrel. I did some weaving with iron wire and made this thing that should keep the leaves on the roof.
We have a raspberry with a camera in the living room and one in the shed. The one in the shed shows a live stream from home, the one in the living room shows the shed. We can now wave at each other. I’m still working on sound. Nicked the idea from Q42.
Every hour this clock takes a picture which is shown on a screen. Then slowly behind it the live stream of this same image is revealed. The idea is that this way you can see time changing. Hard to describe, this needs images and video.
Made this physical clock for my colleague Diederik.
My kids’ headphone broke. It wasn’t even a year old. Printed a thing from thingiverse and now it’s fixed.
Some of the plywood used for our hand made sofa was clearly not meant for outside use. Replaced it with wood that will last a bit longer than just a year.
I saw a video of a so called night clock and recreated its mechanism with CSS.
I bought the NCND font and made a few typewriter clocks with it.
Last weekend I started this ropes on a balcony project. This weekend I bought more rope, started all over and finished it. Happy with the results. Especially the changing patterns when you look at it from different angles.
After visiting my old teachers from art school I recreated an art clock that’s at their place (warning: sometimes it looks like a swastika). I took it over the top in this clocks clock.
I built an invoice system into a CMS. As long as the owner is the only one who uses the site, this should be fine, I guess.
A clock that shows the exact time, but feels like pointing at an about time, by moving the hour indicators 2.5 minutes.
A 24 hour clock divided into three hour segments.
Read more about the OBA Clock here.
A few weeks ago I removed the iron bars from this balcony. This weekend I replaced them with this knotted pattern. While it is completely symmetrical, it looks different from every other angle.
We’ve wasted four wireless doorbells. Terrible products. So last week I bought this old doorbell with metal tubes, and today I connected it, with wires, to the mains. I also built this cardboard case for it, because the original was quite ugly.
Erik van Blokland read about my Arduenn clock and told me about this idea of his: a clock that shows pictures of clocks to show what time it is. He sent me lots of (old) pictures, and I added some of mine, wrote some code, and now it’s a thing. You can add images if you want to via Codeberg.
I made a Jasper clock that always says “Ja hoor, het is weer zo laat!”, which means something like “Right, it’s that time again”. And an Arduenn clock, which shows the correct time, regardless of timezone, only twice every 24 hours.
I followed an oil painting course together with JanJaap. This was a three week portrait painting assignment. There was a real person sitting in front of us.
Dave is a very good friend of mine and a very good, and very nerdy photographer. He needed a website, and I made it for him.
The full name of this project is Two bottles; a hommage to Anni and Josef Albers and their interacting colours. I stole a form from one of Josef Albers paintings, wrote a script that generates all possible shapes of that form, and then nicked all colour palettes with four colours out of a catalogue of their work. Different on each refresh.
I like quite some stuff. And I make notes about some of these things. This page existed for quite a while but I gave it some CSS love.
I made a tool to visualise some possible discrepancies in our curriculum.
We finally have new hammock in our living room again. It’s nice and big and black.
Finally, after years of procrastination, I’ve made an option to add alt texts to my photo website.
A tool for composing for Oulipo (and donating fifth latin symbols to dolphins).
An Oulipan clock that shows no fifth latin glyphs.
My second oil painting. Made at an oil painting course at the Vrienden van het Barlaeus. A big struggle again. Nice colours in the end though.
My very first oil painting. Made at an oil painting course at the Vrienden van het Barlaeus. It was a struggle, but I’m happy with the colours.
I made this curtain with a very old Greek blanket to keep the warmth in our living room
This is a needlessly elaborate thing which makes it possible to strem music from my old iPod to my new amp that doesn’t have audio-in plugs.
I made a site for my uncles’ photos. I wrote a script that automatically uploads them to my server whenever he sends me an email with photo's. Unfortunately it’s not possible to respect the order of the images in the email, so I upload these by hand. Which is quite nice to do, they are beautiful.
I planted some railroad ties in our garden to keep the dirt of of our little terrace.
I finished this little work of art and brought it to my old teachers, Diek and Joke.
With this small group of friends we used to post stuff to This Is My Jam. We missed it, so I made our own private version of it.
I made this website as an in memoriam for Paul Auerbach.
I made a little book as an in memoriam for Paul Auerbach.
So much fun to do.
