Happy Halloween!

Bossaphonik Poster

Bossaphonik Flyer

Working with Dan Ofer to make poster for Bossaphonik night at the Cellar

Pete's Leaving Doi

Dark Pit on Arsia Mons

This pit on a volcano on Mars had been described as bottomless because no one has spotted any details in the shadow. Having worked with underexposed photographs it seemed fairly simple to determine if there were any details in the black areas. Some quite unambiguous features emerged after I tweaked the levels and applied a slight blur to reduce the scan line artifacts.

These include an extra shelf below the eastern wall, which may be an overhang or even a tunnel, or more likely rubble that's fallen off the eastern wall. 

There's a non uniform gradient which cannot be a camera artifact, and is either caused by a slope at the bottom of the pit or from the light reflecting off the opposite side wall. There also appears to be chunks of rubble at the base of the pit, although this may well be in part noise from the HiRISE camera. See this image to compare how light plays off rubble in the bottom of a pit.

I'm very surprised no one has spotted this before as it had quite widespread media coverage when the image was captured in 2007 and I have been unable to find any other reference to this. Here is the link to the HiRISE source, and the New Scientist article I found out about it in.

Oxford Walking Tours Booking Form

This form is for the Oxford Walking Tours website. As well as calculating the costs for the types of tours and the numbers of adults and children, the tour guide's timetable is accurately modeled, so that it knows which days the different tour times occur on various dates in the calendar. It also highlights the relevant tour in the timetable.
This is a very clear, effective and user friendly use of javascript.

The Port Meadow Spider

"I was having a recurrent nightmare about spiders and the spider in this nightmare was particularly big - I was becoming spindled up in thousands of miles of spider silk."

The Wallingford Fish

The Wallingford Fish was created on a rainy day with a map, a felt tip pen and a GPS receiver and a Rover Metro 1.4Si. This fish spans 13 miles, following a 67 mile journey along the roads around Wallingford.

Oxford Fisheye View

GPS data from tracks around Oxford over a three year period and projected into a 180° fisheye view. The tangle of lines at the top is a skydiving festival at Weston-on-the-Green drop zone with the Flying Squirrels wingsuit team. The virtual structure spans 10km and reaches an altitude of 12,000ft. The Port meadow spider is also clearly visible.

The world's Biggest "IF"

This was an attempt to answer the question: "What is the world's biggest 'IF'?"
The letters for the 'IF' are 70 miles tall. The font size for the word is equivalent to approximately 319,334,400 points.
In addition the drawing traces a journey through Iffley in Oxford, the Ifield Road in London, Ifield and Ifold in West Sussex and Iford in East Sussex - all names beginning with the word "IF".

Cutteslowe Park Football Fields GPS Drawing

This was created by walking around a football pitch in a spiral pattern with a GPS receiver and changing the direction of the walk when I crossed a line in the field, thus marking out the boundaries.

Video Tracking of Boris and Jemma

This panorama was created by matching up frames of video footage and tracing the tip of Boris' tail and the tennis ball as a blue and yellow line respectively.

Ladybird's wing opening sequence

I found some high speed footage of a ladybird opening it's wings and realised that it very closely resembled the way in which a self-erecting crane operates. This was used as an integral part of Ladybird Crane's branding.

I painted this trompe l'euil mural as part of a garden design project.

Shop Signs

While I was working in a local wine retailer in 1999 I turned my hand to decorating the sign boards, and turned the shop into an impromptu gallery with the chalk pens.
I have now invested in a collection of chalk pens so if you need your blackboards decorated, you now know who to ask...
Space aficionados - notice that I featured the then recently de-orbited Mir space station with the cosmonauts popping in for a crate of beers.

Ant drawing

I found a colony of ants in a flower pot, and wanted to know if you could make a drawing from the trails of ants. I put a toy car, a ball, a sprinkler, a Hoberman Sphere™ and some stones and let the ants crawl all over them while filming them with a HD camera. The black in this image represents the highest concentration of ants over a half hour period.

Spider Mural

Nice big friendly spider who was responsible for painting the following mural...

Mural

Mural for play room featuring the family dog, a duck, a tractor, a helicopter and the cast of Wind In the Willows, all applied with paint pens without getting any too much paint on the carpet..

Brochure Photography

Photography for the "Give Us a Break" brochure with Jo Ord.

Grandchildren Portraits

While I was drawing portraits at the Jericho Street Fair I was approached by someone who wanted me to draw her grandchildren. The top two were drawn from life and the other two were drawn from photos - they wouldn't sit still still for long enough!

The Giraffe and the Sheep

Chalk Pastels 23x30cm

Frog Nest

Chalk Pastels 30x23cm

Cat Fish Bowl

Chalk Pastel 30x23cm

Recycled Bicycle Alleycats Poster

Chasing around Oxford after clues and ending up in a pub is something that always does it for me... Here's the "Recycled Bicycle" Alleycats poster.

Pastel drawing from Ord Hill, North Kessock, Inverness looking towards the mountains.

Roger Perkins - Typewriter Clock

This clock is made from video of the numbers 0-9 typed on an electric typewriter as part of Roger Perkin's 'Timekeepers' project. These were turned into a clock using Flash and Director. This was an exercise in memory management so that no more than 3 movies were playing simultaneously. In that respect it behaves more like a mechanical clock when the hours, days or years change. Here's the link.
The Corpus Christi Chronophage reminded me of it - note when it changes the hours...

Roger Perkins - An Empty Vessel

Roger created two casts of human figures out of wax and melted them over a three month period with lightbulbs in the crypt of St Botolph's Church, London. This was filmed by an interactive pan/tilt/zoom camera that was programmed with 8 preset views every 5 seconds. My job was to write a program in Director to automatically separate the 80,000+ images into their constituent views and create time lapsed movies of the views. The difficulty was that the camera wasn't always precisely pointed and the lighting conditions varied, so I had to design a filter that accommodated for these vagaries. Here are the results.

Roger Perkins - Greenham Resort

Roger Perkins created a museum portraying Greenham Common cruise missile base as it might have been had it been a holiday resort.

This was a fantastically detailed museum showing resort life from the 1950s to the 1970s before cheap flights rendered them redundant.

I helped set up the museum and created an interactive record on Roger Perkin's web site.

You had to pinch yourself to realise it wasn't real!

City Snail

I've never found snails very scary until I encountered this one.

Jazz at Pearl's flyers

Kim Nalley Post Cards

Boris and Jemma

Models of Boris and Jemma as they appeared on Vicky and Tony Cooper's wedding cake.

Miniature drawings

32x32 pixel pictures drawn on mobile phone

Portraits at the Jericho Street Fair

I set up a stand at the Jericho Street Fair with a sign offering portraits for sale at a few bob apiece. Parents wanted their children drawn and if they didn't move around too much I managed to capture some resemblance. It was good practice and I became significantly better at drawing people's faces.

Rail Map and Road Map for Oxford Airport

Søren Jensen "Line Art"

These images, used for branding Søren Jensen branding and their web site, were generated by modifying software used to simulate a roof designed to open and close like a camera iris.

Maps for Søren Jensen Web Site

Pete The Temp

Album Cover for Pete the Temp's Buena Vista Socialism release.

Holywell Bed and Breakfast

Drawing of Holywell Bed and Breakfast, Oxford.

MedStamp Alien

This 'alien' was made by turning CAT and PET scan data of a human into a movie and distorting it in AfterEffects. It was subsequently recombined into a dataset so it could be viewed in MedStamp's 3-d imaging software.

Carousel and Twister Slit Scan

This is a slit scan the Carousel with horses in the background and the twister in the foreground. The time is projected from the top to the bottom.

St Giles' Fair Slit Scan - Rotating thingummyjug

This shows the progression of the ride with time along the horizontal axis from the beginning to the end of the ride. Each vertical stripe is a rotating arm of the ride passing by, and the rotating arms are lifted up and down on a hydraulic jack.

Yolande Nye's Web Site

Animated gifs made from video of Yolande Nye's kinetic sculptures.

Alan Franklin's Web Site

I've just completed Alan's web site - second one in a week! Very interesting work - particularly the outdoors pieces in the sculpture trails.

Steve Hurst's Web Site

Stephen Hurst is a sculptor and historian who's work reflects futile nature of war. Here's his web site which I've very nearly finished.

Cowley Road Slit Scan

Slit Scan of the Cowley Road Carnival featuring myself in reflected in a wobbly fairground mirror.

Oxford Stunt Factory

This represents my experience of Bungee Jumping. You have to hurl yourself off a 150 foot high crane with an elastic umbilical chord and undergo a trauma similar to birth. 3.5 billion years of evolution hasn't prepared you for this activity, as neither me, nor my ancestral amoeba would be here if throwing oneself off heights greater than a chair was natural.

Jodrell Bank Slit Scan

Lovell Telescope Vertical Slit Scan from Hugh Pryor on Vimeo.

Here is a video I made using digital slit scan techniques. You can hear binary pulsars buzzing away in the background.

Oxford Engravers

Refining designs for the for the cutter at The Oxford Engravers in the Covered Market. This is the Stewart family crest I designed for a signet ring.

Pub Quiz at the Fir Tree

Here's the poster for the Fir Tree Quiz Night - I think I have cornered the market in posters for events at the Fir Tree...
If you look closely you'll see lots of things which would be highly relevant to solving pub quizzes, including Floj, Laughing Dave and a map of Italy labelled "Spain"