box tops

Moving away from the light structure of string.

Pottering on

 Bouncing back and forth between the intergalactic decisions of 'Colour' or 'Black & White'. 

One could compare it to the PC vs Mac campaign in the sense if your life was interesting you wouldn't concern yourself about it. 

But if you don't have an interesting life then look yonder to the horizon to receive salutations from your brother, moi (okay, this wise overlord is actually turtled under a desk).

Colour is nice...

...but it confuses what I'm trying to emphasise. 

The orange line.

Beta Displays

Boundaries boundaries boundaries...

Testing = different ways to show the same damn thing

And some ways are better than others. 
I haven't found it yet. 

Cracking Cup!

I made this cup a little while ago with the help of this man http://www.how-come.co.uk/person/chuly-lee/

But its only just been finished now!
Chuly (master) said a lot of cracks have come up but it looks far more interesting cracked than smooth.

The handle is next to useless :)

Bye bye!

STAMPEDE!

Its been a while since I've had to draught anything by hand.

Stamp for an up coming show

www.how-come.co.uk

You can see all the miscalculations when it comes to fitting text around a circle. Can you remember when people actually did this? 

In fact, I'm sure some people still do. They're probably the good ones. The chosen few who'll get all the pies.

Liancourt Rocks

Read an article about a South Korean footballer declaring  his stance on a territorial dispute beween Japan.

The territory involves a pair of islets which I found stunning. Surrounded by sea it's easy to sink in to a poetical reverie about these two guys (so I'll let you do that...)

But I feel like the issue brings an interesting group of elements together - sport, territorial claims, resources, war and beauty. 

From a perspective of deep time, where volcanoes coughed out these islets that are now quickly eroding, this pair seemed to have landed in the midst of catty squabblers - most of whom don't live on the island. There's a traditional, yet absurd, dimension to people when they shout out, 'Mine!' for things they may never have seen or touched. 

I found this quote via the Google super computer;

"I believe that greed and competition are not a result of immutable human temperament; I have come to the conclusion that greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being continuously created and amplified as a direct result of the kind of money we are using... The direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive." - Bernard Lietaer

floating balls

Bonjour, People! It's been a while.

I've been testing out boundary devices in fluid spaces. Yes, that's the most coherent I've been on this blog

Fixing screws and tying them together took a while. Some doubts settled in. For example, it looked pretty laying down but I thought dumping them into water would cause them to lose shape

Surprise! 

However, I didn't have time to tow them as I got told off immediately by a park warden. I waved at her from the other side of the pond (which is French for, "Message received, mad lady!")

 I crept backwards behind the bush. I placed the balls into a bag and waited - I wanted to test it again without being told off. I laid low.

10 minutes passed under the excellent sun. I found a place that obscured my tests. I pulled the boundary device out but it was completely entangled.

Stage 2 awaits...