Dea Bankova

Next Thursday in Hackney Wick London! Our final event for the year @cccraftsspace.bsky.social
💖🎟️ luma.com/pbd0aa61

I attended Savannah's workshop at Peckham Digital last month and it was hands down the most fun & accessible TouchDesigner workshop I've been to; it's finally given me the motivation to try and dig into this monster 😅

It's our last event in London for the year and I'd love to see many of you there!

<1 week till Peckham Digital 🫰
I'm doing a workshop on Sat (18th) on drawing live sketches with your face & body w/ p5.js and ml5.js; in lieu of doing something with c3s this month~.

Would love to see you around at the fest 💜 (or workshop -> www.peckhamdigital.org/events/2025/...)

London's biggest creative computing event, Peckham Digital, is happening next week and we're beyond excited for it✨
c3s will be there + Dea is running a workshop called "Drawing sketches on a Canvas with your body (ft. p5.js & ml5.js)"
🗓️ Sat 18th
🕜 1:30pm - 3:00pm
📍 Social, SE15 3SN
👇 Below for 🎟️

✨ c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next event with 4 very special guests from London's thriving live coding scene.
Come & learn how to create live audio visuals with beginner-friendly langs 🪩Hydra + 🎵Strudel. ✨

🗓️ Sat, 30 Aug
🕑 2pm ~
📍The Cave, HW, London
🎫 tickets on luma~
lu.ma/9kf45v58?tk=...

📢 c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space meetup #7: Wired Connections

Next event is up! Learn about e-textiles and leave with your own LED gloves! Spaces are limited-hope to see you there 💫
📍 UCL Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
🗓️ Sun, Jul 27th, 2~5pm
🎟️ tickets & details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

Somebody asked for cat pics 👀

Thank you! I'd hope so ^^''

I used Sanity. I don't have other things to compare it to (other than our internal system) but seems to work quite well for my purposes.

Screenshot of the portfolio site, featuring a stylised sea-like 'gradient' for saturated pinks, blues and greens.

Quietly rolling out a completely redone portfolio website.
Featuring: no longer having to use node 14 to get it to work! Also Svelte 5. And a CMS replacing a very large projects.json - I feel so mature now.
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www.deabankova.com
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🔊Happening next Sat! c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social next meetup!!

We'll try to animate anything (bring your own website kinda thing) with GSAP 💚

🗓️ Sat 7 June, 2pm~
📍The Cave, LDN
🎫 lu.ma/ugcoydkj

(I think it's actually gonna rain, let'd huddle together indoors for some cosy-but-not-vibe coding 👾)

State of the art AI 8 years ago

I wonder how that popped into my mind

You conjugate almost everything. In 'one beautiful woman', every word is feminine. Surnames always express something akin to belonging, a possessive. Usually ending in -ov/ev (masculine) and -ova/eva (feminine). So by giving Viktor a first name surname, JK essentially made it gender-neutral 🫠

It always struck me (and everyone else) as odd that J. K. Rowling chose to call the Bulgarian character of HP Viktor Krum. Let's dissect that a bit. These are two first names, a basically impossible combo in Bulgarian. We've got a gendered language, in fact a highly gendered one. 1/

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.

We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?

Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.

Black Mirror s7 ep1. Is this the world that we want?

Resources are up in the 'resources' section of the c3s website www.creativecodingcrafts.space and as always, the fun chats and more resources end up on Discord first discord.gg/HGH7uEpy99 ~

The quantum-ified music was one of my favourite parts. I don’t.. really.. understand music (unlike quantum), but it did sound magical.

A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Music from electronic to quantum; Eduardo Miranda'

A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'How is art and media and culture shaped by quantum today'

A woman sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Quantum projects and open resources'

A man sat behind a laptop presenting on a big screen. The screen reads: 'Quantum Village creative projects'

We had a wonderfully weird Saturday last week at c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social , where two special guests from Quantum Village talked about quantum computing in the arts, from history to hands-on frameworks. 👾

I wouldn’t even have imagined we’d host such an event when I first conceived of c3s 🫰

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

Exploring the Windows 3D maze screensaver you find a smiley face lurking from behind the corner. The face is very big. It looks menacing.

In a room with monitors piled on a trashcan. There are papers surrounding the dumpster, and bags of trash in the corner. Someone cleared out in a hurry.

Entering the classic 3D maze screensaver. There are rats up ahead. You must collect them.

Turning a corner to find old CRT monitors piled against the wall. Mice are dangling from the ceiling. The "Start" icon is in the corner.

individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
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#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace

In all the discourse on AI vs software eng, I keep seeing variations on the same: 'AI can't do scalable, secure code and that's what devs do'. I'd love to see more on the creativity of writing code, grounding it in being human and real-world experiences. I don't think devs are scalability machines.

📢 Reminder: Next c3s @cccraftsspace.bsky.social meetup is

🗓️ Sat 5th April @ The Cave in London, 🕑 2pm~

🎫 Grab your tickets here: lu.ma/2bvp84e5 🎫

We're super excited about this one! ✨✨✨

It's been over 3 years since we got the masterpiece that is 'Twenty-five twenty-one' and really what has been going since then? ☠️
Did we reach peak k-drama in 2022? I really want to watch something good again, like actually good. Not 'When the stars gossip', what was that even.. 😵

c3s meetup #5: Quantum Canvas - Freeing the Qubit For Art · Luma ✨✨✨ Join is for a hands-on exploration of how quantum computing can be used as a creative tool in art and music. ✨✨✨ 🪄 Expect demos of quantum-inspired…

Next meetup is up 👾!!
We'll be at the Cave (London) again
🕑 2pm~ on 🗓️ Sat 5th April

Regulars Victoria and Mark will talk about some cutting edge uses of quantum computing in the arts, including showing us quantum-infused musical instruments. 🎹.
We are so excited about this one~

lu.ma/2bvp84e5

Bookclub is going strong + they have a lovely new venue!

I hope that this is useful for people who can't come to our in-person meetups, too. 💖

And, of course, the actual materials we use during the meetups are all in there, as well as links to previous and upcoming events. There will be more eventually, I'm thinking of putting together a 'co-create' page at the very least.

Maybe a post will follow one day with screenshots from all the iterations. For now, here is a version with 2 x dark variations and 2 x light variations - because of course I couldn't settle on just one 'vibe' after all. Refresh and toggle for different random options ☺️.