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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

More Kinect 360’s spotted in the wild again. Check out this amazing wiring job at a large Manhattan museum 😂

Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sharing a new project - a creative tech timeline: laserpilot.github.io/creative-tec... The history of this space is captured in many different places, but some of the information disappears or gets lost. This isn't meant to be complete, but more of a conversation starter. Additions welcome!

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Creative Technology Timeline

A timeline of creative technology tools, set against the hardware, web standards, AI, artworks, and institutions that shaped the field.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Spotted an Xbox 360 Kinect still in use in the wild

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've had backups of a hyperstudio "game" i made in 1997 for forever but havent been able to open them. The other night I had claude fix the files so I could open them in a macOS9 emulator and I was not prepared for the level of peak 13yr old nerd I was about to witness.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Taking requests for weird AV equipment to make out of polymer clay. This is my first attempt at a little midi synth

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 24/06/2026

It would be pretty cute if I got to 300 pre orders this week, just saying

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I have to do a lot of napkin math for interactive installations and just realized i could make a multitool for common things. Welcoming comments! laserpilot.github.io/interactive-... -Monitor placement, LED simulation, projector, sensor, speaker positioning

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Interactive Installation Multitool

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If anyone in NY-10 hasnt voted in the primary today - please vote for @bradlander.bsky.social and oust that phony Dan Goldman

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

IMDB but for creative tech project credits "oh shit, you were tech director bystander #3 on that project? that role was life changing"

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I made a fake experiential agency site, processing over a decade of working in real ones. Case studies are fictional, but feel too real at the same time. palatable.work

palatable.work

Palatable — Experiential Agency

For ambitious brands seeking Spatial Narrative & Consumer Truth.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Photochromic dye and UV laser projector experiments continue - now on a much larger canvas

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

These cowards should have owned their choice and made their URL takeawhizz.biz - you don’t merely get a whizz, you take one

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Plotting some of my generative trees from a tool I’ve been working on. Lots to do but I like what I’m getting so far!

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

6-ish weeks off and on of progress working with Claude Code to make a tool to make pen plottable trees/svgs. Tried like 3 or 4 different approaches and ive finally landed on manual branch placement and auto twig/leaf placement

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Working on making a happy little tree generator for pen plotting a forest, but not with pure L-systems, just a little SVG tree builder tool with manual adjustments and then going to make it more procedural later

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Now on to some generative pipes…

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Braaaaids! 🧟‍♂️ BRAAAIDS! 🧟‍♂️

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

That feeling when someone sends you an Alibaba Express link they found because they think the trusted hardware you recommended is too expensive

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Still dipping into some time to mess with generative braids - tried a new technique of having the strands "break" to simulate a highlight and i love how it is looking even more natural in spots. fixing those tight foldover curves is my white whale though...

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hell yeah @bradlander.bsky.social - excited to see he’s running for congress in my district youtu.be/qmoyCPtPSTw?... (Obligatory fuck my current rep, @repdangoldman.bsky.social )

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Brad Lander for Congress

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Pen plotter results of some of the generative braid work I was doing a week ago. Still have some work to do to make it feel more organic but I’m encouraged by the results so far #plotter #penplotter

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Trying to vibe code a generative braid that i can eventually pen plot has been quite a journey in trying to break down the problem well enough for AI to get what I'm trying to do. I've still got a little ways to go to fix edge cases, but im very pleased with what i've got so far.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

ive been trying to figure out 2D braids/barber poles for pen plotting/faking occlusion and this took so long to get to but im so satisfied (havent worked out whats going on with the phase glitch in the middle, but whatevs)

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I’ve been trying to find a good way of making thicker pen plotter lines for years and finally cracked a way with some new code. This is originally a drawing I made, converted to vector and then an attractor laid on top to thicken lines within an influence field #plotterart #bantamtools

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Sharing a little pen plotter calibration tool made with Claude laserpilot.github.io/Pen-Plotter-... Code on GitHub. Meant to let me figure out just how close and fine I can get certain pen tips for fine drawings. (Cc @golan.bsky.social if this is useful for any students)

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Another great move from the Adams team, our embarassing mayor who can't be out of office soon enough. Sidenote - is $100 considered a decent bribe? was it jsut like a balled up pile of 20's, 5's and 1's? what were they trying to cover up with so little money? an ill timed fart?

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Great ad timing on this DC tourism ad in your app @nytimes.com food! History! Raids!

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Shout out to that time in 2016 where i chopped up images of a Where's Waldo book and had @genekogan.bsky.social 's amazing ofxTSNE sort them by similarity to make a hellish Where's Waldo

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Wow - someone in my neighborhood doing a real deep clean this morning

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Used Claude Code/Gemini to help me make a CEF browser->Spout2 simple app for Windows that ill release soon. Going to do the same for Syphon on MacOS because why not. There were old implementations of this, but most were abandoned. Let me know if this sounds useful!

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Damn - Gemini Code Assist CLI is really not performing well on most coding tasks. So many syntax errors and oddball solutions. I like it as a big picture view/project manager when im out of tokens on Claude Code, but I've barely had success with it implementing working code

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Sharing a new niche tool I made - Font Ozempic laserpilot.github.io/font-ozempic/ it is specifically for taking SVGs with text objects and replacing the text with a single line font (or hershey text) and letting you re-position and save the file. Meant for pen plotters #penplotter #plotterart

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Awesome projection technique i havent seen done this cleanly before, or only really with LCD's with polarizers removed: www.nendo.jp/en/works/unc... - they remove the polarizers from LCD projectors and then put circular polarizers on the umbrella. so nice

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uncovered skies

A multimedia installation designed for the “information or inspiration?” exhibition held at the Suntory Museum […]

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A regular reminder to please donate what you can/join as a member to CAN - it is a vital resource for the global media arts community and is such a special space.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Response to the photochromic+UV laser has been awesome - thanks for everyone's support. I didn't get to share this bonkers bit of footage where the laser and camera shutter sync up briefly and it looks like the image is just drawing itself for a moment. (extra footage here youtu.be/xEo0MRYg4SY )

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Omg eat shit, Cuomo. This is so exciting - congrats Mamdani!

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Wow - taking a look at my ancient "How to keep an installation up 4evr" guide in 2025 with an AI lens and asking it if it can update everything and automate some stuff. New installation tools incoming soon i guess?? (link to old guide for those unfamiliar github.com/laserpilot/I... )

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Sharing some WIP footage for a new experiment that uses photochromic pigment and a custom UV laser projector. The images fade over time, allowing for an evolving canvas. More info here ablairneal.com/project/forg...

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 17/06/2025

A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

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Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court

The arrest came in his latest visit to the courthouse to speak with migrants there.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Successful test composite fft plot of Ok Computer (blue=bass/green=mid/red=high). Super fun comparing whole albums like this - now just need to make the time text bigger and the plots less tedious to make

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Please NYC voters-for the primary- early voting opens today. rank any combo of Mamdani, Lander, Adrienne Adams, or Myrie but DO NOT rank Cuomo. Mamdani is a hope to finally get a mayor who does something for the citizens. Cuomo is a creep, an embarrassment, corrupt and scandalized NY deserves better

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Working on some time series song visualizations that I can then pen plot. It’s wild how much Claude Code can help on this kind of thing - an idea I’ve had for a long while and finally got to do it

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Excited to share a new update to my Creative Tech Taxonomy - I added a tab that attempts to categorize various types of interactions how they can be enabled by a sensor. It's still missing some stuff, but I've wanted to share it for a while: laserpilot.github.io/Creative_Tec...

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Showed my 5yr old the wonders of physical media this morning and discovered that there is fungus eating one of my favorite 21yr old CDs

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

For anyone that missed the first sold out round of Post Mortem Tarot cards, I was able to get my design published by the company that produced them and you can order them direct if needed (also easier to get if you live outside the US): www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketp...

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Post Mortem Tarot Cards

Post Mortem a 90 card oracle deck featuring satirical cards aimed at people working in experiential design, creative technology and adjacent corporate

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