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In any case, what I love about Max/MSP/Jitter is how straight forward and visual it is. The ability to construct a patch to do what you want, within the capabilities of the software. Jasch compares it to Lego, which I always enjoyed as a kid. But it’s what you can do with a few words, symbols and numbers within all those little boxes that I like so much; and how the numbers give you such precise control over what is happening.

I’ve just switched the site over to Permalinks to start the process of maximising my presence in search engines. I’ve scratched my head over using these since I started this website and every time I started to read the ‘instructions’ at the Word Press Codex site I’d get blurry eyed and my third […]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Notes for digital artwork 05, copyright Alison Boston
I am pleased! When I started this slog, my intention was to create a website that would function as a type of archives for my work as an artist, and I quickly realised I also had a a great publishing […]

People ask why I call it a slog rather than a blog.
Here’s why:
slog (slŏg)
v., slogged, slog·ging, slogs.
v.intr.
1) To walk or progress with a slow heavy pace; plod: slog across the swamp; slogged through both volumes.
2) To work diligently for long hours: slogged away at Latin.
I go with the latter, although the first also applies during […]