037 > PRITCHETTOL!
Tony's tea mug. He loved his green tea and I loved my chats with him as he drank it.

037 > PRITCHETTOL!

Thanks to Metal 'New Artist Network', I've been able to develop a BW green tea-based film developer, which I'm naming Pritchettol in memory of Tony Pritchett, a man who liked …

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028 > Random Walk
Huge thanks to Jez Stewart at The BFI for scanning some Random Walk footage. There will be more images from more scans including an entire project folder-full of materials in the eBook.

028 > Random Walk

I’m immensely proud of this paper.Thank you Prof. David Duce and Prof. Bob Hopgood. Thank you also to Dr. Victoria Marshall, for engineering the collaboration. I seem to have put…

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019 > Some Light Relief
A book from TP’s archives. I’m not sure when or why he owned the book. Perhaps it was a nice break from speaking Fortran.

019 > Some Light Relief

FORTRAN stands for: Flipping Heck,This Is Difficult To Learn. Tony used Fortran V to program The Flexipede. Drawing and animating using Fortran is not an easy task, especially for someone…

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018 > Comedy & Science
“It became clear that with the computer techniques currently available, the tedious and time consuming film method has an overwhelming advantage in respect of cost.” Of course nowadays the opposite is true.

018 > Comedy & Science

When TP got his funding from The Institute of Computer Science in 1967, he could’ve made anything in order to explore the possibility of computer animation. He chose to make…

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