Andy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on Grasshopper 2's latest features. Andy Payne is a licensed architect and software developer at Robert McNeel & Associates, the company behind Rhino and Grasshopper 3D. He is a Doctor of Design graduate from Harvard's Graduate School of Design (2014). Andy has lectured and taught workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, and his work has received awards from several leading academic organizations. Andy has also co-authored several...
Jun 11, 2024•15 min•Ep. 74
Andy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on the origins of Grasshopper, Grasshopper 2, Rhino.Compute, teaching, learning to code, generative AI, open-source code, and his journey. Andy Payne is a licensed architect and software developer at Robert McNeel & Associates, the company behind Rhino and Grasshopper 3D. He is a Doctor of Design graduate from Harvard's Graduate School of Design (2014). Andy has lectured and taught workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, and his ...
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 73
Ian Keough—CEO and founder of Hypar and the father of Dynamo—on how Hypar is creating the next-generation platform to design, generate, and share buildings, and thoughts on open-source software, visual programming, authorship, monetization, and generative AI. Connect with Ian Hypar Hypar Elements Hypar on Discord Favorite quotes “What would we have to build to have [our new AEC software stack] decoupled from all of the historical and legacy software?” “I just can’t stand toil.” “You don't wanna ...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 72
Alex O’Connor—researcher and ML manager—on the latest trends of generative AI. Language and image models, prompt engineering, the latent space, fine-tuning, tokenization, textual inversion, adversarial attacks, and more. Alex O’Connor got his PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a postdoctoral researcher and funded investigator for the ADAPT Centre for digital content, at both TCD and later DCU. In 2017, he joined Pivotus, a Fintech startup, as Director of Research. Alex ...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 71
Zach Kron, senior product manager at Autodesk, on making and selling pen plotter art, evolving with your projects, capturing ideas, and remote work. Zach is a Senior Product Manager at Autodesk, a global provider of design software. Since 2007, Zach has been involved in the research and implementation of digital tools that drive real world building projects and increase the availability of advanced design practices. While his focus is on making software, Zach also participates in teaching, hands...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 70
Nono Martínez Alonso shares tips on producing a podcast, building an audience, booking guests, content formats, motivation, and goals. Here's my recent conversation with Steve — who wants to build a YouTube channel about the joy of making and listening to music, emphasizing health and well-being — where I shared tips and insights from five years of podcasting. Links Riverside is the tool I used to record this episode remotely. How to monetize YouTube Perl, Java, and JavaScript are programming la...
Oct 26, 2022•33 min•Ep. 69
Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah on decoding and upgrading design systems, reverse engineering the creative process, knowledge dissemination, the long tail of niches, Erwin Hauer and associative models, book writing and publishing, and much more. Leire Asensio is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture and Co-Director of the Advance Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) at the University of Melbourne’s school of design. David Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design and architectur...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 68
Frank Harmon on the purpose of writing and sketching, what makes great writers, artists, and architects, and the importance of giving people a sense of place. Frank Harmon, FAIA, is a nationally renowned award-winning architect, a professor of architecture at NC State University’s College of Design. and a popular mentor to four decades of student architects. A graduate of the Architectural Association in London and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has also taught at the Archi...
Jul 29, 2022•46 min•Ep. 67
Experiments with OpenAI’s text-to-image generation AI system DALL-E 2, mini-essays on the creative process and being done, and blogging tools you can use. Links DALL-E 2, Explained by Nono (video) Variations of "A minimalist 3d render of a balloon car" plus "A sunflower" by Edward Hopper by Nono x DALL-E OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 publication Google Imagen: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Google Parti: Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image Model The meaning of done (post) If it's not fun, you shouldn't do...
Jun 29, 2022•24 min•Ep. 66
Thoughts on traveling and meeting people in person after the COVID-19 pandemic. Favorite quotes "You can do anything that you set your mind to, but you don't have time to do everything.” —Frank Harmon Links It’s nice to see you, in person (post) Back from Atlanta (post) Nono’s blog Nono’s sketches and stories YouTube channel Kean Walmsley’s blog post A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg (movie) Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? by John Seabrook for The New Yorker Books...
May 31, 2022•11 min•Ep. 65
My current habits, the podcast, the blog and sketches, the YouTube channel and the live stream, my new recording studio, monetization, crypto, and the importance of learning and play. Books Essentialism by Greg McKeown Links My ‘atomic habits’ (podcast) My writing habits (podcast) Nono’s blog Nono’s sketches and stories Which one would you like to read? (post) NFTs Solana (cryptocurrency) YouTube channel Readwise The Flatten Layer, Explained (video) People mentioned Ian Keough Andrew Witt Joanie...
Apr 20, 2022•40 min•Ep. 64
Andrew Witt, associate professor at Harvard University and author of Formulations, on how mathematics and computational methods transform the way we think, design, and make art. Andrew Witt is co-founder, with Tobias Nolte, of Certain Measures, a Boston/Berlin-based office for design futures and an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University. Trained as both an architect and mathematician, he has a particular interest in a technically synthetic and logically rigorous ap...
Mar 24, 2022•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 63
Adam Menges is a founder at Lobe and a former Apple employee, currently working on something new. Adam Menges is a product designer, entrepreneur, and engineer located in San Francisco who specializes in artificial intelligence and visual programming languages. He’s a former Apple employee and founder at Lobe, a company acquired by Microsoft that aims to make deep learning accessible. You can contact Adam to find out more at adammenges.com, and reach out to him at [email protected] and +172048...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 62
Nate Peters on being intentional, digital art and generative NFTs, the advantage of established creators, and the fast pace of artificial intelligence & crypto. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Nate works as a software engineer for Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, he earned his Master of Design Studies in Technology ...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 61
A conversation with an anonymous guest on how new technologies can help promote positive moral behavior, blockchain and crypto concepts, digital art and NFTs, the convenience of centralization, online identity, impostor syndrome, the ever-newbie, and lots more. Favorite quotes “Writing code is talking to computers, but you also have to talk to people through your code.” “How do we figure out, in a digital age, what is good and what should we aim for as a civilization, as a society?” “Information...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 60
Jordan Gray on creative friction, the fine line between passion projects and work, storytelling in design, and overcoming the beginner feeling. Jordan Gray works as a Visualization Specialist at Hanbury. Architecture and design always have a narrative—an evocative, deeper meaning. From napkin sketches, to drawing sets, to post-construction marketing, each medium for client communication is key to architectural storytelling. I've always had a passion for the visualization toolset, recognizing how...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 59
Podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing highlights of 2021, and why you should start writing in public. 2020 has been an incredible year in many ways. Yet I didn't expect COVID to be as present in 2021 as it was in 2020, honestly. Wherever you are, I hope that you're staying safe and healthy and can be, at least, in contact with your close friends, even if you can not spend time with them in person. Join me as I revisit my achievements in podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and wri...
Jan 02, 2022•21 min•Ep. 58
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on how complex machines work, technological polarization, and the growing need to make algorithms understandable. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Aziz is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment. Favorite...
Dec 13, 2021•14 min•Ep. 57
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Jose Luis Garcia Del Castillo on teaching and coding live. Nono Martínez Alonso hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Jose Luis García del Castillo y López is an architect, educator, and Doctor of Design in Technology by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches Computational Design . He r...
Nov 29, 2021•41 min•Ep. 56
Host Nono Martínez Alonso replies to audience questions on the evolution of the live stream after a year of weekly streams. Books Atomic Habits by James Clear Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Deep Work by Cal Newport Links Nono.MA Live Playlist Suggestive Drawing (and an in-depth tech dive ) CATIA , Digital Project and Gehry Technologies Harvard GSD Parametric modeling People mentioned Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Panagiotis Michalatos Carmen Chamorro Adam Menges Cal Newport Special thanks Bit...
Oct 26, 2021•33 min•Ep. 55
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and digital art. Listen to this episode to learn about non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Note that cryptocurrencies and stock options are highly volatile markets, and you shouldn't make financial decisions based on this episode. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creativ...
Oct 16, 2021•31 min•Ep. 54
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Nate Peters on the machine learning-based audio-editing solution this podcast is being produced with, web components, React and UI libraries, the effects of COVID-19 in our work lives, NFTs and cryptocurrencies, and the new informal catch-up conversation podcast format we're testing out. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative codin...
Oct 12, 2021•31 min•Ep. 53
Reclaiming time to be human. I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community . Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps. Show notes, transcripts, and past episodes at gettingsimple.com/podcast . Theme and exit songs, Sleep and A Loop to Kill For , by Steve Combs under CC BY 4.0. Follow Nono Twitter.com/nonoe...
Sep 22, 2021•3 min•Ep. 52
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on StyleGAN, NVIDIA's state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm that generates convincing images. Listen to this episode to learn about StyleGAN. Nono Martínez Alonso hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence. Aziz Barbar is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design c...
Aug 05, 2021•11 min•Ep. 51
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Jose Luis García del Castillo on the mindfulness of breath-hold diving and being deep underwater, best practices, equipment, and techniques, equalizing your middle ear pressure, scuba versus freediving, and recommendation systems. Before parting ways at the boarding gate, Jose Luis and I captured our first impressions after a week of freediving classes; what we learned, what we loved, and things we thought we knew but didn't. Big thanks to Paco González Castro, Biag...
Jul 14, 2021•26 min•Ep. 50
Runway's co-founder Cristóbal Valenzuela on the need for new creative interfaces to control complex algorithms that focus on results (not technology), the freedom of being a startup, and how machine intelligence is changing how we think, design, and make art. Cristóbal Valenzuela is a technologist, artist and software developer interested in the intersection between artificial intelligence and creative tools. He is Runway's co-founder. Previously, he co-founded Latent Studio, a creative studio s...
Jun 30, 2021•19 min•Ep. 49
Illusionist Héctor Ruiz on getting started and standing out as a magician, how COVID-19 changed his world, his take on talent, effort, creativity, success, and entrepreneurship, and more. Héctor Ruiz is an illusionist from Spain that performs over the planet with his show amazing and amusing audiences. In the last years, Hector has performed at some of the most important TV shows in his field at the largest cruise ships in the world and has toured with big international magic productions. He is ...
May 31, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 48
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar introduce the Bytes series—concepts at the intersection of digital technology and culture in a language we can all understand—and talk about cloud storage. Listen to this episode to learn more about the series, its name and format, co-host Aziz Barbar, and what's coming. Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and...
May 06, 2021•12 min•Ep. 47
Luis Ruiz Padrón on the creative process behind his sketches, writing, and publications, seeing the world as an Urban Sketcher, identity, teaching, technology, life, success, and more. Luis Ruiz Padrón is a PhD architect. He teaches Architectural Graphic Expression at the University of Málaga; drawings of cityscapes is his main interest as a scholar but also his first source of pleasure, sketching them himself. He belongs to the Urban Sketchers global community and is the founder of the local gr...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 46
A practice to focus by listening to the same songs, over and over again. Chapters 0:00 · The compact disc and streaming services 0:56 · The walkman and repeat mode 2:51 · Looping playlists, the practice 8:09 · Repeat one 9:38 · My playlists 10:35 · Focus Zero 11:07 · Focus A 12:14 · Focus B 13:56 · I'd love to hear from you I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question about this or any previous episodes. Join the Discord community . Meet other curious minds. If you enjoy the show, would you plea...
Mar 23, 2021•14 min•Ep. 45
