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Especially the weird faces it makes, and how it just ominously moves in from the background.

Sharing this to make shops and staff in the area aware of an incident earlier today involving a group of minors who were witnessed stealing alcohol, threatening shoppers and staff, and deliberately intimidating vulnerable members of the public.

Businesses on and around Princes Street are encouraged to remain vigilant. Any further incidents should be documented and, where appropriate, reported via Shopwatch radio or through the relevant authorities.

This post is intended solely to raise awareness and help protect local staff, customers, and vulnerable members of our community. Should the parents or guardians of any of the young people pictured be present in this group, please speak with them about their behaviour and ensure they are held accountable for their actions.

Apparently they also assaulted a poor woman..

And I'm not able to share Facebook links here, but the girl from the video above sent me a link to a video of them attacking another Chinese girl earlier in the day.

Also, they've been spotted along Nicolson Street.

[If anyone has any further information contact the police - the crime reference the first girl gave over her attack was CR033946526, this should be sufficient to quote]

I was reading about how language developed from repeated marks, sounds, and shared meaning, and it inspired me to explore that idea visually.

This animation begins as a dense field of shifting letters and symbols with no obvious meaning. Over time, through repetition and grouping, those marks begin to organise into something more coherent, eventually resolving into the core message I was exploring - how LANGUAGE BEGAN AS PATTERNS.

The project was built using a mixture of Python, parameter expressions, procedural instancing, and GLSL. The code controlled how glyphs were selected and distributed, how different character sets were introduced over time, which positions formed the final message, and how the camera and transitions progressed. Python was also used to generate the target data and control instance colours, while GLSL handled part of the chromatic treatment. I later added a short electronic soundtrack and used separate low-, high-, and full-frequency amplitude data to drive the glow, distortion, movement, and chromatic effects.

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These are behind-the-scenes development shots of a custom 10-stage, all-in-one CRT Signal Processor .tox component I’m building in TouchDesigner.

It’s designed to bring multiple forms of analogue degradation and display processing into one controllable system, complete with its own custom interface. It’ll work with image, video and live-feed inputs, making it useful across still, prerecorded and real-time projects.

The visual direction draws from industrial computer interfaces like the Nostromo in Alien, the dense diagnostic displays of Blade Runner and the retro-industrial terminals found throughout 80s sci-fi media. The goal is to capture that nostalgic cyberpunk feel - imperfect signals, phosphor glow, electronic interference and technology that feels physical rather than frictionless.

The processor is split into 10 effect groups, covering Input Conditioning, Signal Instability, Signal Noise, Chromatic Aberration, CRT Structure, Colour Treatment, Phosphor Glow, Persistence / Ghosting, Screen Geometry and Final Treatment. Each tab has multiple sub-settings, with individual effects that can be enabled and fine-tuned independently.

It covers everything from static, scanlines, interference and displacement to colour separation, bloom, ghosting, curvature and final signal degradation. For quicker experimentation, the CHAOS button generates a controlled random variation across the whole processor.

Rather than being one fixed CRT filter, it’s being developed as a flexible visual-processing system for anything from subtle analogue texture to full signal collapse.

It’s still very much a work in progress so if anyone has ideas for extra effects, controls or features, let me know. I’ll eventually make it publicly available as a free download once it’s finished. Next up after this: a more futuristic companion processor focused on glitch, digital corruption and overt cyberpunk aesthetics.

Note: I'll be uploading more dev stages, clips, and the download link on my Instagram over the following weeks.

Sharing this very early 2023 iteration of a cymatic Chladni visual system developed in TouchDesigner [with help from daily.typo / Factory Setting's awesome cymatic equations], translating Tessa Violet’s Haze into reactive geometric frequency patterns.

Cut to 3 years later and a BUNCH of refinement and head-scratching, and I can’t wait to share the significantly more advanced outcomes of the network’s continued development in the next few weeks; including tighter response, better particle control, more professional-looking UI, and a bespoke audio analysis component that can automatically adjust to (almost) any song input.

Be the first to see the results (and all-important network schematics), coming soon on my Instagram..

I witnessed a very disturbing assault in the town centre today involving a shop worker who was simply doing their job. The incident followed what appeared to be a shoplifting incident involving three males pictured.

Police Scotland have been notified, but I’m posting this to raise awareness for local businesses and staff in the area, as incidents like this are deeply concerning for both local workers and the wider community.

I’d also like to invite discussion: is anyone else becoming increasingly frustrated by the apparent lack of meaningful consequences for this kind of behaviour? Personally, I’m concerned that when violent or antisocial behaviour faces little deterrent, it can embolden further aggression, theft, and crime, further exacerbating concerns around public safety.

Local businesses, please stay vigilant, review security measures where possible, and report any suspicious or violent behaviour directly to Police Scotland.

Please do not approach or harass anyone pictured. If you have relevant information, pass it through the proper channels.

A decoded machine rite attributed to an engine-priest caste, composed to align, sanctify, and awaken a dormant titan-class war engine buried beneath cathedral-forges and generations of ash. Across the configuration, liturgical gridworks hold the field in rigid order while shifting geometric forms assemble into esoteric machine-sigils - configurations of code and command arranged in precise sequence to unlock sealed systems and initiate resurrection protocols.

Static interference fractures the transmission like degraded scripture, while corrupted distortions bleed through the signal as though the machine itself strains against incomplete communion. Tracking nodes register across the rite as diagnostic seals, containment wards, and anchor points, each one serving to stabilise the awakening process and bind catastrophic force into disciplined function.

The titan is an ancient siege-behemoth: a rust-entombed colossus of blackened armour plating, fortress-scale artillery, and extinction-level destructive capacity. Its reactor core has lain dormant for centuries beneath corrosion, sanctified oils, and doctrinal sealing rites, preserved until the hour of necessary war. Such engines are not awakened lightly. They are summoned when nations fail, when conventional armies collapse, and when annihilation must be delivered with absolute certainty. Entire cityscapes may be levelled beneath its bombardments; its passage alone can rupture infrastructure and shatter defensive lines.

To the engine-priest, the machine is revered as both weapon and divinity - a vessel of preserved wrath, forbidden knowledge, and industrial sentience. Steel becomes scripture. Maintenance becomes sacrament. Activation becomes an act of perilous devotion. Through ritual precision, the priest-engineer does not simply power the titan’s systems, but communes with an ancient intelligence of war, imposing order upon devastation so that its awakening serves doctrine rather than indiscriminate ruin.

A sacred act of calibration performed at the threshold between dormant machinery and mechanised apotheosis.

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