Floating in Space

I heard the artist Tomas Saraceno talk at a symposium on the future. He spoke a mile a minute and digressed a thousand times. One of his tales was of going to a special place in South America, a beach where the sand is always covered by a thin film of water. And you walk on the water and the sky is reflected perfectly. On a clear night the stars are out in their millions and you are floating through space. These are his photographs, part of his installation for the 2010 biennale, the images are called Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space.

Tonight is the annual Perseid meteor shower. Clear skies are forecast and there will be up to a hundred shooting stars an hour at the peak, 11pm tonight. Even in cites, ten shooting stars are bright enough to be seen. We are seeing this because the earth is passing through the tail of the Swift-Tuttle comet. Here it is last year, seen from Jordan.

new exciting CLIMATE BLOG

I am very excited. Phoebe and I have just done our first post on our new blog!

http://www.climatedirectory.blogspot.com/

We decided to start a website that presents a small number of things you can do against climate change, from building your own wind turbine to signing a petition to get solar on Parliament. We research a topic a week and look at the work of charities, individuals, communities and governments, selecting exciting and achievable things for people to do.

It came about because we kept feeling that we had to do 'something', but the amount of different things to do can be quite overwhelming, especially to people like us who change lightbulbs and recycle but don't know where to go from there.

So our blog will hopefully make it easier for you, if you have ever wanted to do 'something' about climate change, to do it. Have a look, and if you know of anything we could feature let us know.

dinosaur

I got wax crayons for Christmas

city

a drawing submitted to le gun

Alternative uses of fish

This poor fish is being used as a lantern. He lives in the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford, an amazing horde of things.

What a Life etching

One of my etchings. For a print project in the first term, we were given a couple of sentences from surrealist narrative 'What a Life', a story created to go with images from a department store catalogue. We got the words, and a randomly picked copy of Sunday Times magazine from the 70s, to take imagery from. My sentence was about stumbling upon a beautiful lady asleep and dreaming - my magazine had an advert with an orchestra in, and lots of ship logos, so I chose to show her in her dreams. She's in the crow's nest.

Alice in Wonderland

Here are my illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, the project linked to the cover design competition. You may see the girl again, I'm recycling her because she's not really tied to being Alice, and let's face it, I may have been carried a little too far away from the original text drawing penguins and ice floes. She is reappearing in drawings for a children book I'm working on over summer.