David Newcomb Morales
@arbourtrary.com
🇵🇷 🇺🇸 🎨 Creative Developer 🌿 Gardener (digital) ✍🏼 Poet arbourtrary.com
Today's Feature: "High Jump as Divination" by @gphibbett.bsky.social from High Jump as Icarus Story published by @bansheepress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/high-ju...
High Jump as Divination
how you get down governs how you fly; you either leave with wings or you stay human,
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In my free time, I've been working on a tool I call Wanderwhim It aims to empower writers / lifelong learners to use AI without surrendering our voice or ability to think. TBD if I got the balance right. But eliminating the open-ended chatbot felt like a 1st good step www.wanderwhim.com
Ran some surface level visual analysis into the per character patterns of the NYT crossword puzzle. Have I ever done a single crossword? Never. Do I like grid data and heatmaps? Absolutely #creativecoding #crossword #nyt arbourtrary.com/sketches/cro...
Crossword Heatmap
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My favorite part of moving somewhere new? The chance for discovery, finding a clearing, some comfort some calm and something delightful #serendipity #wandering arbourtrary.com/writings/fin...
Finding a clearing
On inviting a little bit of serendipity and calm into your life
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Repeatedly asked an LLM to describe climate change in 1 word, iteratively turning up the temperature parameter knob. Highly scientific results in this little code sketch #creativecoding #llm #climatechange #temperature arbourtrary.com/sketches/ris...
Rising Temperature
Analogizing climate change with the meltdown of LLM responses under increasing temperature
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Excited to write and create more often in the coming years #poetry #creativecoding arbourtrary.com/writings/bro...
Broken Watch
Even a broken one gets it right twice a day
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Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues #newyearseve #fireworks
Tiny Awards are open for nominations! ⚘ the past two winners were One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv/) and Rotating Sandwiches (rotatingsandwiches.com/) nominate a site for "the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" here: tinyawards.net
Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.
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After watching the Pacers & Thunder hit 50-40-90 percentages as a team in the Playoffs, I looked further into NBA teamwide shooting excellence Monospace inspo from @codeistheend.bsky.social and table inspo from @owenphillips.bsky.social, @crumpledjumper.bsky.social #nba #dataviz #pacers #thunder
NBA Teamwide 50-40-90's
A deep dive into some of the NBA's most efficient teamwide shooting displays.
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Started collecting my favorite beige styled websites. I was first drawn to how it evokes old books and humanity. Interesting to see how some LLM websites (Anthropic) have co-opted the beige + illustration + serif style #beige #design #creativecoding arbourtrary.com/writings/beige
Beige
A list of some of my favorite blogs / gardens / websites / products / projects that use a beige style.
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As long as I can remember, I've enjoyed taking photos mostly of nature - trees, oceans, lakes, flowers. Sometimes there's cool geometry in a building or a bridge or my favorite wonder of the world: the Alhambra #digitalgarden #creativecoding #photography #trees #alhambra arbourtrary.com/photos
Photos
A selection of my photos mostly focused on the natural world - trees, forests, rivers, clouds - and some geometry in the built world.
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Wow - hats off to Gladeye - an amazing immersive experience. Can't wait to dig into some of the details of this work www.nationalgeographic.com/into-the-ama...
Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: buff.ly/2HCCTc8 #OTD
Started adding a dark theme to the website - worked better than I'd expected and helped me organize my CSS variables #digitalgarden #creativecoding #css
Had a lot of fun going back through all the songs I've loved over the years. I wrote a little blurb for each song evoking some memory or feeling #music #playlist #creativecoding #digitalgarden arbourtrary.com/music
Music
Tracing a quasi-chronological path through the evolution of my musical taste. So many incredible songs and genres.
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Revisiting some of my favorite books. Primarily poets at the moment, but I'll keep adding to the list #creativecode #kensukekoike #poetry #waltwhitman #maryoliver #langstonhughes arbourtrary.com/books
Books
Making a list of books that have really stuck with me, changed my outlook, inspired me, surprised me.
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Collected as many of my poems I could find, scattered across years of notebooks and scribbles and files and folders. Put them in the garden #digitalgarden #poems #poetry arbourtrary.com/poems
Poems
An ongoing collection of my poems, sometimes written out of reluctance. Sometimes in rapture.
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In a previous iteration of my personal website, I'd collected some silhouettes of my favorite trees to climb. Took those and added them to my current website as a little data sketch #creativecode #digitalgarden #climbing #trees arbourtrary.com/sketches/cli...
Climbing Trees
Reminiscing and collecting silhouettes of a few of my favorite trees
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Interactively learning the fascinating symmetry of the Cistercian numerical system that can represent the numbers 1 - 9999. Big thanks to the project by @yzahk.in - I primarily used that canvas code to draw the ciphers #creativecode #digitalgarden #cistercian arbourtrary.com/sketches/cis...
Cistercian Ciphers
Learning the interesting symmetry of the Cistercian numeric runes with an annotated interactive
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I've been refreshing my site after seeing all the awesome digital gardens compiled by @den.dev at blogscroll.com #digitalgarden #minimalist
Saw the inspiring series of peakscapes by @chaneyswiney.com and reproduced this style for various islands. Started with Tahiti / Mo'orea and will add parts of Puerto Rico soon. Gonna keep gardening on this one #creativecoding #digitalgarden #peakscapes arbourtrary.com/sketches/isl...
Island Peakscapes
Taking inspiration from Chaney Swiney's peakscapes and creating beautiful gradients of some of my favorite islands
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The artist Kensuke Koike has meticulously created countless wonderful, disorienting image transformations. I recreated one of those effects in code and applied it to a variety of paintings and artworks #creativecode #kensukekoike arbourtrary.com/sketches/ima...
Image Sampling
Recreating an image processing effect from the artist Kensuke Koike, finding beauty in the approximate
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Working on a collection of all the little idiosyncratic words my toddlers create as they learn to speak. I only have a few entries at the moment, and I'll keep adding as they go along in life #creativecode #linguistics arbourtrary.com/sketches/chi...
Childhood Dictionary
An ongoing collection of all the brand new words, chimeric words and otherwise original language that come from my toddlers
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I made animated, squiggly svg versions of Wacław Szpakowski's beautiful line drawings. Tried to give the code sketch a soft emergence on the page #creativecode #waclawszpakowski #svg arbourtrary.com/sketches/lin...
Line Drawings
Vectorizing and animating a handful of Wacław Szpakowski's beautiful, mazelike line drawings
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A favorite recent project: Peakscapes. I love the layered looks you get in the #mountains, and I always want to be able to name everything in view. These designs provide a cleaner, more idealized view of the landscape than a photo can. Are they #maps? Or geographic art? I'm not sure.
Using what data I could quickly find (Etymological Wordnet), I collected all the words on my website with direct etymologies (i.e. no complex branching ancestry). Excited to see this one grow as I write more #creativecode #etymology #linguistics #digitalgarden arbourtrary.com/sketches/dir...
Direct Etymologies
Scraping my own website to find etymologies of words that are the result of a direct lineage
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At what point does a regular polygon look indistinguishable from a circle? Little canvas sketch to draw n-gons and learn their Greek-derived names #creativecode #polygon #circle #digitalgarden arbourtrary.com/sketches/pol...
Polygon or Circle?
The Platonic circle does not exist, but at what point can we no longer tell the difference?
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