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isps » harpa

to reykjavík for ISPS 2017, the international symposium on performance science. it’s being held in harpa, which is a building i can’t get enough of.

diary | 30 aug 2017 | tagged: photo · iceland

science photo prize

thanks to this shot, science outreach, and a national competition, i have a new camera. first prize! huzzah!

the full story is here — http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/126324.html

screenshot above from — http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2014/mar/31/national-science-photography-competition-in-pictures

diary | 31 mar 2014 | tagged: phd · comedy lab · photo · qmat · research

oia » black cat

and don’t get me started on the dog looking over the castle battlements, surrounded by sun-rise photoshoot brides.

diary | 09 sep 2013 | tagged: photo · adventures · santorini

oia » sunset

in oia and environs, things are picture postcard perfect…

diary | 09 sep 2013 | tagged: photo · adventures · santorini

comedy lab: robothespian

“I never know how to start, which is probably because I run off windows 8” – and there were more laughs than groans!

as part of the media and arts technology phd you spend six months embedded somewhere interesting, working on something interesting. i did a deep dive into web adaptations and the semantic mark-up of stories at the bbc. klemomenis katevas has spent five months at engineered arts working on realtime interaction with their robothespian, and what better test could be a re-staging of comedy lab.

beyond tiernan’s script and kleomenis’s programming of the robot, what was most exciting was to see a robot did colombine gardair’s ‘woooo’ gesture, and the audience responded exactly as they do in covent garden. that’s our first trying out of something we’ve learnt about performance from doing this line of research… and it worked.

robothespian’s first gig was straight delivery of the script and ‘press play’ stagecraft. it went surprisingly well - it really did get laughs and carried the audience to a fair degree. tomorrow, we turn on the interactivity…

diary | 07 aug 2013 | tagged: comedy lab · phd · photo · qmat · research

india » one hundred

i could post pictures of india endlessly - series upon series of market sellers, colonial hill stations and the narrow gauge railways leading up to them, school kids running around, food, food, food and more food; even just starting to construct a list brings on a paralysis of choice.

that all said, such concerns start to pale against the memory of visiting this lady, my wife’s one remaining relative in india. the match-maker for my mother-in-law’s parents, no less. such a testament to life in a country so full of life: a hundred years old, memories clear, mind sharp, still in touch with the family diaspora, and such a sense of humour. simply inspirational.

diary | 25 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo

india » side-scrolling four

thats not a billboard, its a house. any surface next to a road gets painted up, advertising political parties or cement.

diary | 18 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo

india » dravidian six

all in all, it can all feel a bit disney-like. but there was one temple, a little of the beaten track, that was as if the gods of graphic design injected all their worth before fleeing in the face of the gaudy onslaught.

diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo

india » dravidian one

to india for adventures. cue the temple elephant!

diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo

sheep music » million way

you never quite know whats going to take flight at a festival, and suffice to say nobody had heard of million way but they blew the festival apart. not sure it would work at home, but live nobody could resist their groove.

diary | 21 jul 2012 | tagged: photo · adventures · sheep music

la » filming iii

last two days in LA spent with the excellent morgan bernard, though again largely behind laptop screen: trying to pull the PhD and whatnot back into focus. a welcome diversion came by way of scenic diversion coupled with morgan’s realisation there was a GH1 camera in an office in town… cue hours of amazing filming around san pedro docks. perfect blue gradated sky with industrial everything scrolling by against it. and we even found the same container and car trains that had been snaking through the windfarmed desert at the beginning of the trip.

diary | 27 apr 2011 | tagged: dfuse · vj · photo

october beach

who would have known that a seaside weekend in october would be blessed by best of summer weather. amazing.

less camera friendly as this blissfully unaware shot of nephew and parents, some fine sand castling was had: true, simple pleasures to be found between quantity surveying, tidal passages, castle defenses and the inevitable destruction.

diary | 10 oct 2010 | tagged: photo · adventures

5500km » g&t with a tree in the top of a dune

to come: amazing thunderstorm spectacle over the wide vista leading out from the petrified dune cliffs we’re standing on.

diary | 12 jan 2010 | tagged: photo · adventures · 5500km

wedding, winter style

another schoolhood friend says ‘i do’. a crisp winter’s day, thousand year old church mixed up with black tie, all quite picturesque. and with babies at the wedding, this is all feeling definite thirties-territory.

diary | 28 dec 2009 | tagged: photo · friends

pomp and punting

summer and so weddings: to oxford, for the wedding of friends who met while studying there. quite the weekend: trinity college all to ourselves; intimate chapel service, tea and cake on the green, and so on till a spot of punting the next day. beautiful day, touching moments, i wish them the best.

diary | 15 aug 2009 | tagged: photo · friends

são paulo » hd'copter justification #2

…but all that fades away against the rift of paraisópolis and morumbi. o m g. to see this was why we’d hired the helicopter. just unreal.

urban conditions…? i would just stick this on a cinema screen for an hour and let people deal with thinking it through.

diary | 28 jul 2009 | tagged: vj · photo · dfuse · on_off

solstice victoriana wonderland

to cap a weekend of code, ikea and whatnot, headed to the free paradise gardens festival for a valedictory beer on the latest sunset of the year. it all turned magical after the last act, as the steam fair was deserted but somehow still lit up, a surreal playground of victoriana beckoning; strings of white bulbs lifting glimpses of a bygone age out of the void of the park. union jacks, steam engines and more pomp, carved wood and gold leaf than you could doff your hat to.

diary | 21 jun 2009 | tagged: photo · adventures

back in london #2

as if to chide us for being inside glued to laptops for the weekend, the quad outside the workshop room is a vision of summer perfection. although cropped like this, london looks like america all of a sudden.

diary | 14 jun 2009 | tagged: errata of life · photo · open frameworks

back in london #1

back in london. unmistakable. love it.

diary | 07 jun 2009 | tagged: errata of life · photo

...so that is what a narrow aperture is for

having seemingly spent all my photographic time in low-light, camera stuck to f1.4, i finally remembered there are times you want it elsewhere. hello starburst sun!

diary | 24 may 2009 | tagged: errata of life · photo

mapping'09 » l'écurie

the îlot 13 complex has the écurie bar, and what a perfect place. couldn’t resist this shot, seeing the guy reading the hardback comic they had lying there, roses behind and, well, it goes on. too perfect.

diary | 13 may 2009 | tagged: vj · photo · mapping

run back for the camera

out from the computer screen and walking to the bakery, the sun comes out and pow! the skies are dark dark grey but everything urban is floodlit white with long shadows. tower block and white crane are stunning. and to cap it all, perfectly framed by the most amazing rainbow.

run back for camera, obviously it has passed. the clouds are racing and changing all the time, see a few more flashes of sun, but nothing like that one. at least a glimmer of rainbow again when finally walking back, loaf in hand.

one for the memory…

diary | 22 jan 2009 | tagged: errata of life · photo

mmm... birthday cake

you can’t imagine how quickly those candles burnt down…

diary | 13 dec 2008 | tagged: errata of life · photo

paralympics » spectacular: check

spectacular, it was. the paralympics opening ceremony might not have had quite the lavish and epic reach of the olympics that i saw broadcast, but it did have soul - and watching a wheelchair bound athlete pull himself up a rope to the top of the stadium to light the olympic flame was something both awe-inspiring and humbling: when he paused to get his composure back 50 meters up and still a little of the war to go, i’d wager there were 90,999 other people also experiencing a deep moment of reflection.

diary | 06 sep 2008 | tagged: *spark · vj · photo · teaching · beijing paralympics

paralympics » opus to the bird’s nest

simply stunning. the best architecture i’ve experienced in the year, probably years. postcard from a distance, it simply gets better the closer you get into and through it.

diary | 05 sep 2008 | tagged: vj · photo · beijing paralympics

the sea. aaah.

…and breathe out.

diary | 29 jun 2008 | tagged: photo · adventures

i think i’m being watched

some things are a gift, even if everything is wrong

diary | 10 jun 2008 | tagged: errata of life · photo

stoke newington festival

after max’s 30th mashup in birmingham, straight off the train and to stokefest. superlovely day, england looking stunning, ended up with old friends and akira in a rooftop party, djs blaring. quite the weekend.

diary | 08 jun 2008 | tagged: photo · adventures

the moment, frozen

always a pleasant surprise when you wake up the next morning and a photo from the (late) night before actually did capture the moment…

diary | 13 mar 2008 | tagged: vj · photo

finish!

a little mind-sketch while breakfasting outdoors in february (meaning another jinxed summer?).

was on route to “collaborators: uk design for performance 2003 - 2007”, an exhibition hidden away so cryptically at the v&a its almost as if they didn’t want you to find it. i loved it though, plenty to peruse and be enthused by if you’ve got a multidisciplinary bone in your body.

diary | 10 feb 2008 | tagged: errata of life · photo

press to flush

up north at a welsh working man’s club. maybe its just me, but i was charmed by the ultra-polish ethic combined with dated statement of the obvious.

diary | 02 feb 2008 | tagged: errata of life · photo

america is... cluttered

this signpost kinda sums up the impression i’m feeling this trip.

diary | 19 nov 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

cuisine at compass » the joke that never tired

a shot from the after-after party that i couldn’t resist. the highbrow comment would be to say we conclusively proved the theory of entropy, but it wasn’t about thinking, it was about hay bales turning into a strawfight that lasted for hours. chaos reigned, it was a joke that just didn’t tire.

diary | 03 nov 2007 | tagged: vj · photo

porto azzuro under his gaze

and gazing at the sunset sky, i saw the cross wasn’t the only thing positioned on the hills around.

diary | 28 oct 2007 | tagged: photo · adventures

...and hello london

flew back into london city airport, and straight onto the DLR and 277 bus for me and jasmin. felt instantly grounded looking out of the DLR’s newish extension to the airport, the east end’s crazy mix panning by under a dazzling cloud filled blue sky. although that, of course, is washed out in this photo to get some foreground exposure.

diary | 24 sep 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · photo

ford vj frankfurt » messe sunset

…the finance buildings in the other direction, clad in glass, were shining orange.

diary | 21 sep 2007 | tagged: vj · ford vj · photo

southbank overture

here is ‘re-engaging reactive graphics’ from a post or two ago, in its final projected form (or at least, one frame of one of the permutations i delivered). its on tonight too, as part of the south bank’s overture event, the re-opening of the royal festival hall. 10.30

diary | 09 jun 2007 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · photo · light surgeons

paradise gardens fireworks

awwwww. having retreated from the rain back to home, hear and bang and snap this. nice to have the 8mp original, one for a frame at the house.

diary | 27 may 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

rbn_esc: the bike ride

summer has finally hit, and its no fun staying in playing on computers all week when you’ve got a lovingly restored mountain bike looking at you. so today was the freelance day off; left the house, pointed north on the canal towpath, and saw where it took me: urban escape. rode the length of the lee valley out into hertfordshire, and when it split, took the singletrack option. however, no mountains in sight, curiously enough just the stanstead express… rail links following the earlier river navigations, i pretty much rode to stansted airport, and was rarely far from those trains shuttling back and forth. rbn_esc: well, not quite.

diary | 23 may 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

mapping festival » wifi in the park

geneva turns out to have wifi in its parks. fantastic… unless your battery is dead. just need to have a powergrid in the grass now.

diary | 01 may 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · photo · mapping

london through 7am eyes #1

cycling from saaf back to the norf after a birthday bash; taking in norman foster modernity and tower of london history…

diary | 20 apr 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

amsterdam #2

car park ramps from a canal

diary | 12 apr 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

easter sunday

there was a glorious easter sunday sunset, waiting for the tram. we’re at the loop at the end of the line, somehow very fitting for our bubble of motor show unreality. 15th day in a row, one more to go.

diary | 08 apr 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

that’ll be the new desktop, then

inside the stedelijk museum, a glorious red filled passageway. minutes later, a new image for the desktop and a sequence for a visuals loop. on that tip, the main exhibition was ‘mapping the city’: perfect for a urban obsessed visualista

diary | 22 mar 2007 | tagged: errata of life · mac · photo

amsterdam #1

aaaah. hello visuals.

diary | 22 mar 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · photo

sleep deprivation, pt2

walking along, worked through the night before, unusually crisp day, look up, phonecam in pocket: for once, it wasn’t the sleep deprivation.

diary | 01 mar 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

istanbul » this is something i don’t remember

…but i love the photo, whatever it is. it was late, things had got blurry, and the order of photos points to it being at the indigo club. such is going out with a digicam =]

diary | 24 feb 2007 | tagged: errata of life · photo

richmond sunset, telescoped

on king henry’s mound, say no more, was a telescope worthy of jules verne[1]. and it was free, no ugly coin slot, bequeathed by a couple who used to roam the park. respect.


  1. or at least, the visual representations of his books, on reflection. oh, the irony. ↩︎

diary | 01 nov 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo

monument before

its quite a journey, up the spiral staircase inside monument, and quite an experience up there - especially if it turns to a storm. this is before…

diary | 21 oct 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo

tornado aftermath

was shade-bathing under those palms when the air suddenly got fragrant… sandlewood smells turned to choking as the driftwood piles were lit - more aftermath of the tornado being dealt with quickly and efficiently. it also made for a spectacular sunset as the beach stretched into infinity with these piles burning all along.

diary | 09 oct 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo

i like my new camera shot #2

ah, the old macro shot of the lotus flower in buddist temple grounds, eh.

diary | 07 oct 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo

modernist perfection

theres just something about the combination of these chinese characters, helvetica, the tiles, and the ‘pure’ name: central.

diary | 03 oct 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo

hong kong window as wallpaper

first time to asia: hong kong for cousin jeremy’s wedding. definitely tasted the new china, just couldn’t get over the feel of urbanisation there: here is the view out of our hotel window. it was like having a window as wallpaper. and thats a crop, too.

diary | 29 sep 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo

a week in itself

just had one of those days that feels like a week in itself. got up, got on the train, wrote a job application, arrived in birmingham, had a two hour meeting with lawyers, left that and met max and had a coffee then a pint, got back on the train, arrived in kentish town, spent the evening immersed in my audiovisual project with a musician, then missed the last tube back home yet miraculously the double nightbus challenge worked a treat.
lots to follow up. urgh. and this all isn’t helping my cold…
the photo is from the new costa coffee shack in the bullring, its quite an amazing little construction, not just sculptured but with a beautiful use of materials. the pub after, the rainbow, is a perfect place too, and even had a massive munchbreak-esque band setting up for a two day gig…

http://munchbreak.com/

diary | 08 feb 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo

a 200 quid sunset

so there i am walking down the street where i’d left my parents car… just that it wasn’t there. eeek. jump to the next day, and i was following the sign on the lampost in that photo to the levon road car pound. stunning sunset, which was nice, having to pay 200 quid to get your car out of the point, not so nice. i live in a residents parking area, but don’t have a car. so whenever i hire/borrow a car/van, i play this game of certain times on certain streets. suffice to say, it beat me. whats annoying, is that there’s nothing i can really do about it, as i can only register a yearly permit to a specific vehicle, rather than blessing my temporary motor with my residency.

diary | 19 jan 2006 | tagged: errata of life · photo