This is a little gadget of no particular utility. I built it mostly to see if I could program the ATtiny chip to run LEDs, each on its own individual timer. The code was compiled via Arduino using an ATtiny core. The code is based on the very useful tutorial found at 
gammon.com.au/forum/?id=11411
So, all it does is set 6 leds in a digit matrix flashing. Each LED has an on/off cycle which is 10 milliseconds longer than its predecessor, with an overall tempo determined by the value of the potentiometer. Very simple. The LEDs all light up at the same time initially and then begin to drift out of phase, forming patterns which arrive and dissolve over time. Eventually all of the LEDs synch up again, which can take any thing from a couple of seconds on the fastest setting through to several years on the slowest one. A diverting way to waste a couple of minutes, or a large chunk of your time on Earth.

Ocelot Books' January window is something I've been waiting to do for ages; a bit of Monty Python and the Holy Grail-type woodcut illustration.  I have loved mediaeval illumination for ages, and since I started visiting Germany I also came to love the woodcuts of the era, especially ones from the reformation, where heretics are sitting in the Devil's mouth as he squats over a pile of indulgences.  The art of the 15th and 16th centuries has got so much in it to reward the eye, with all sorts of cheeky little details.  So, given a whole window to paint, I went for a sort of tribute to the Gutenberg printing press.  Unfortunately, I've got to take it down tomorrow to make way for the next display, but I enjoyed making it, and all of the people who stared through/at the window when I was making it seemed to like it too.

Here's the follow up to Ocelot's Christmas window.  A display of Hip Hop-related books and vinyl, including the indispensable "Rappen Lernen", which naturally has a whole chapter on Anthony Carmichael.  The painted border on the window has a bit of an Old School breakdance feel to it.  Very fast turnaround from request to final display.  Big self-pat on back.

Back in November I got offered the challenge of making window displays for Ocelot Bookstore in Berlin's Mitte district.  It was a new thing for me, making something to fill a confined space and show off commercial products.  Working on a tight schedule and a (fairly) tight budget, it had just the right amount of problem solving vs creative thinking that I like.

Time waits for no man in retail, so it's already been removed and replaced with a Hip Hop-rapping-themed display.  More photos of which to come.

Ah, another piece of social media that I've been neglecting...  What can I tell you?  I've been helping to raise a child that wandered into our lives in July.  Not that I have had the lion's share of the work, mind you.  Substantial creative pottering has gone on, including the making of some nice and useless things, such as the Harrington 1200.01 pocket version (below).  If I don't have a big project to work on, then I fiddle around with little stuff.  If I do, then I fiddle around with little stuff until it's almost too late to do the big stuff.

The Harrington 1200.1 is an analogue sequencer for the Korg Monotron synthesiser.  It's a portable version of the Harrington 1200 from the science show Look Around You.  Of course I should really be posting a video of it in action, but perhaps the functions of this device are more enjoyable in the imagination.

Next time, I'll show you my solar-powered mobile.  With a video, I promise.

Cryptic silliness for the Harry hill fans out there.

The opening of In Your Neighbourhood, my solo exhibition at Manstein4 cafe was a superb soirée.  Lots of folks turned up from all over the place and they all seemed to have a good time, though none more than me.  The music from This Escapade and High Heels gave the images something of an added dimension, and I hope that my explanation of the process of designing the images made some sense.
Keep a cyber-eye out for the closing night, which should be just as much fun.

Last night's electrical storm was the most impressive one I've ever seen in my life.  Hardly any thunder to be heard though, oddly.  I was lucky enough to get some brilliant flashes on 4 second exposures.  It never ceases to astound me.

While I was sourcing material for my "Earth to Bass" poster.  I came across this book cover.  I assumed it was a horror novel, but my Mum saw it and said "Yes! I used to have that, that was one of my first cookbooks".  Well, it must have been a good one, because the cover suggests that it's a guidebook for victorian cannibals.