Fred Stidston

I customised these shoes.

photo Feb 14 2012

I wrote a song called Restore.

Music Apr 02 2012

I got in an art gallery.

photo Oct 05 2010

graphic Jan 24 2012

I made some clothing prints.

graphic Apr 04 1986

UI/UX Design for TweetDeck by Twitter.

Interaction Nov 28 2011

Eden

graphic Jul 20 2011

Headscarf

graphic Jul 11 2011

An SVG/Javascript wireframe prototype of a file browser. Since making an earlier prototype at University, some of my predications have played out in Lion.

Click the blue square top right to switch views. (And uncover only more questions.) SVG was way more fun than HTML for interactive web pages.

interaction Apr 04 1986

Investigating using physical tokens to access digital albums.

interaction Jun 18 2011

Visit to Amy and Nick at their home near Washington DC.

photo Apr 04 1986

Studio door.

graphic Jun 23 2011

Portrait of Jack Dorsey, Founder of Twitter, drawn from life at San Francisco headquarters.

graphic Jun 10 2011

graphic May 25 2011

Homepage illustration. Twitter buys TweetDeck for 25 Million. Looking forward to a new year ahead.

graphic May 25 2011

Produced a theme for short film 'In the heat of the morning' by Amelia Leeson. Presented here on loop.

music Apr 26 2011

Design and communications for Tweetdeck.com

websites Apr 26 2011

RFID Hi-fi is on its way.. Get ready to touch the sky..

interaction Apr 04 1986

Conversation with my Dad

Nature seems to have direction, the stars above seem to knowingly guide us forward. But what if this is an illusion. Truthfully, nature's direction comes from behind, its guidance is the supportive heat of the big bang on our backs. This is the ultimate known ancestor, an explosion whose impulse directs the motion of all things, eternally. We are the ongoing creative universe, created by creator parents, descended from creator rocks before them, born of the original explosion long before. The past is all-knowing. We are the front edge of Creation, the grassroots gods creating the future.

http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/fstid/387

fstid : Your senses are unreliable, your perceptions auto correct them. What guides our auto-corrected perceptions is ancestral training on reality.

chirpster : @fstid We see the world through distorted lenses. The corrections we make to that vision are themselves distortion...

fstid : @chirpster 'Distorted' in relation to our perceived ideals. The ideals don't exist anywhere. The ideals are distortions of reality

chirpster : @fstid That distortion is the 'corrections' I referred to. But even the image formed on the retina is a get-you-by fabrication.

fstid : @chirpster Our attraction to perfect domes and squares, is the human caricature of nature, the human mind seeing itself.

chirpster : @fstid ... Nature takes these perfect primitives (it has no choice) and makes errors as it works with them...

fstid : @chirpster haha, who is the man who thinks his local laws are the laws of nature?

chirpster : @fstid "A barbarian is a man who believes the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature." - George Bernard Shaw

fstid : @chirpster Nature is a chaotic expression of atomic matter unguided by anything but persistence. We are the universe seeing itself.

fstid : @chirpster Naturally, we believe everything points forward to God. But in truth all nature moves away from one point - the big bang.

comment Apr 04 1986

Idea development for a large public poster (photograph). The park near where I live, blacks and whites play football together, but british muslims play a separate game. Can sexually empowered, consumer fashion join us all together? Nod to United Colours of Benetton 90s campaigns.

graphic Apr 15 2011

Clouds go home by fredstidston

I saw the perfect girl in the world, in the crowds of the March 26 protest. We glanced passed in a flash, but I could see she was my rightful baby mother.

Finding you my love,
Green skies up above,
Yellow sea below,
In your eyes I know

music Mar 30 2011

Dicktrash by fredstidston

Find my way away,
Find ma-ay wa-ee-ay

music Mar 18 2011

Outdoor poster 3m by 1.5m
Original photo from Shelley Mullshine. http://www.loststhlm.se/shelley/

graphic Mar 23 2011

An inevitable style

graphic Mar 17 2011

Walk Songs by fredstidston

music Mar 12 2011

Logos for local events, see ZacGvi.com

graphic Feb 19 2011

Why do I calculate,
How to be stupid,
How to look calm,
How to look dumb,
How to be nice, why?

Why calculate?by fredstidston

music Feb 23 2011

I woke in perfection,
I woke up into this life in perfection,
I woke up and it came down,
And then I had to climb, higher.

Perfection by fredstidston

music Feb 22 2011

Criticism of Some Contemporary Art

Many of the experiences exhibited in modern galleries are poor relations to richer effects that we can experience in nature. Photographs of effects, or installations demonstrating effects.

The only act of the work then, is that it is being offered as art - the assertion of placing it in a gallery. Intellectual culture is declaring these phenomena fit for contemporary attention. The works are merely identifiers in the pursuit of art discussion.

This 'art' has very little to do with joy or creativity. The works are not contributions to nature. It is only a train spotters collection of passing fads in cultural awareness. The culturally detached atmosphere of the modern art gallery is used to glorify vacuous meta-works above works of actual natural value.

The widespread fear of the new meaning of Art is justified. This type of art makes little contribution to nature and devalues value.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150139123370342

comment Feb 08 2011

Portfolio Book

interaction Jan 27 2011

music Jan 31 2011

Postering the town with paste and brush.

graphic Feb 06 2011

Working out a variation of Happy Birthday.

music Nov 14 2010

Piano loop with added vocal and body noises.

music Dec 22 2010

MIDI recording improvisation at friends studio.

music Nov 21 2010

Portrait for Iain Dodsworth, CEO TweetDeck

Painting of Iain Dodsworth, CEO of TweetDeck.

RT @iaindodsworth: Probably the Best Secret Santa Gift EVER!

graphic Dec 16 2010

Layered and edited drum and piano recording.

music Dec 05 2010

Imagery for Solos, a Moonwax event by Alivism

Imagery for 'Solos', a series of solo performances culminating in a group performance. A Moonwax event part of Alivism.

graphic Oct 02 2010

Jesus Christ. It's a work of art.
(Still in progress)

graphic Nov 28 2010

Iconography.

graphic Nov 30 -0001

4' x 4' acrylic painting in progress.

graphic Nov 13 2010

Video Calling

Video calling would be less weird if I couldn't see my own face. Seeing a reflection of my own face whilst talking to someone else is weird.

Filming yourself for someone else is weird. Talking to video of the other person is not weird, that part is natural.

The only reason to see your own face is to check you're in frame. Actually showing my own face is way too much info, it's very distracting.

I suggest using face tracking to show a simple graphic that indicates good position in the frame with a full circle. Waayy better.

Then, when I switch to reverse camera to film not-my-face, do show the preview in the corner, so I can aim it.

I just made FaceTime usable.

comment Nov 09 2010

Short piano development with clapping and extra piano.

music Nov 08 2010

Flyering for my initative Stids.com

graphic Oct 29 2010

photo Oct 30 2010

Website for Stids.com, and order handling system in collaboration with James Wheare @jwheare.

websites Oct 17 2010

Processed image, based on still from short film by Ben Hunt. Layered image processing artefacts have been exploited to create a digitally interpreted image, without selective human input.

graphic Oct 15 2010

Promotional illustration for a product I developed at TweetDeck.

graphic Oct 13 2010

graphic Oct 10 2010

Love Hate Computers

Computers allow us amazing intellectual freedom and mastery, but they must first dominate us physically. They tie us down and lobotomise our bodies to connect with their limited channels.

The computer mouse ties your hand to the table for 8 hours and anaesthetises your fingers to perform tiny motions. The screen bolts your head to one orientation. Your legs tire and ache underneath the table whilst your mind races ahead of the computer. The limitations of the computer's connections force your body into a communication posture that is extremely constraining. But if we manage to restraint ourselves for extended periods and plug into the machine, then our intellects can soar through the extraordinary and unlimited vistas.

The use of a display as a general purpose output device is inhumane, offering only a portal into a virtual world that ought to surround us in the physical world, as it does to our minds. Likewise the general purpose input device. This idea of a centralised computer will always degrade a human operator.

It is only by dismantling the centralised computer and relocating its components throughout the physical world in general, that we can regain our dignity. For example, through technology such as RFID, where the physical world is the computing medium. Innovation of software functions should slow down and shift to creating humane interaction mechanisms. The human only wants to save effort on undesirable tasks. The human wants to expend maximum effort in joyous creative tasks.

comment Oct 07 2010

rough Oct 01 2010

Poster for StopWar Central London poster protest.

graphic Aug 14 2010

Banner for Central London Stop The War, 4 Photos

graphic Aug 01 2010

Piano factory tour (Improvisation on 6 pianos)

music Oct 05 2010

Painting of Steph watching iPlayer.

graphic Jun 11 2010

Pin for TweetDeck Inc.

graphic Jul 16 2010

music Jul 10 2010

Fundraising flyer for Central London Stop The War

graphic Jun 18 2010

Website design and build with SEO and a CMS as part of branding campaign, for Skills South East.

websites May 30 2010

Election Email for Stop The War Central London

Cross-compatible HTML email mailshot for Central London Stop The War.

websites Apr 28 2010

The characters of Ryan Merna http://oompahlooza.blogspot.com meet upon a Mountaintop.

rough Mar 01 2010

A5 Flyer for the Stop The War Colation.

graphic Feb 23 2010

My variation of the Giant Steps sequence.

music Feb 01 2010

Gordon Brown

graphic Jan 29 2010

Gordon Brown Sketch

rough Jan 28 2010

Projecting faces onto my face.

photo Jan 28 2010

Exploration of using RFID passes to access online content, in music.

interaction Jan 23 2010

File Manager 2

interaction Oct 01 2009

All the things there are - Playing a variation on a standard tune (with lots of silly faces).

music Jan 03 2010

Falling Grace - Chopped up pieces of practice. I like this tune more every time I hear it, but the path it takes is not simple.

music Jan 03 2010

Photos from New York City.

photo Jan 16 2010

"They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
Short story: They're Made Out of Meat, by Terry Bisson.

rough Apr 04 1986

Charcoal life-drawing from a portrait class.

graphic Jun 27 2005

Charcoal life-drawing from a portrait class.

graphic Jun 27 2005

Homepage design development for GroupSpaces.

graphic Dec 22 2009

graphic Dec 17 2009

Unused logo designs for AccountsCheck, Financial Progression and Weberati.

graphic Nov 14 2009

Website for Weberati incl. CMS, SEO and Illustration

websites Nov 14 2009

Piano recordings

music Nov 14 2009

Logo and stationery for Financial Progression

graphic Nov 13 2009

80s vibe here

graphic Nov 11 2009

Thinking about a new macbook.

graphic Nov 10 2009

rough Nov 04 2009

I have added an RSS feed to this website.

comment Sep 08 2009

Photos from Climate Camp Protests

photo Sep 04 2009

Logo update for Bryanston School

graphic May 01 2004

Website for Catherine Leder

websites Sep 02 2009

Flash leaderboard advert for Gouranga

graphic Aug 24 2009

Animated logo for Gouranga [MP4]

graphic Aug 24 2009

I dislike the toyish styling of the two-seater city cars. We all know it doesn't need a big air-intake, is the truth of it so shameful? An honest two seater could be desirable.

graphic Aug 21 2009