Category Archives: art

The Beach

I’m working on an event called The Beach. It’s a game which will take place in north Wales at the end of July 2010. My co-writers are Bethan Marlow and Rhiannon Cousins and it’s in association with and produced by National Theatre Wales. If you want to know more, we’ll be blogging about it on [...]

Newidiadau yng Nghaerdydd a Chymru

This post is written in Welsh and is about changes happening in Cardiff and Wales, where I live. The Google Translate version will give you the gist in English or another language of your choice. Incidentally the title means “Changes in Cardiff and Wales”. Each placename happens to have a Welsh mutation in the title. [...]

Loads and Loads and Loads of Unsold Cars

Here’s a Guardian gallery with fleet upon fleet of unsold cars. If you like big pictures of large numbers of small things you’ll LOVE it. Unless you’re a car manufacturer. There’s a huge one of these car facilities on the M5 motorway in England, going south-west towards Clevedon or other Somerset towns. I used to [...]

The Big Picture

One of my favourite blogs is The Big Picture. The idea is simple but amazing – huge, high quality still photographs illustrating recent news events. It’s based at The Boston Globe so right now I’m waiting for pictures from Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony to appear. In the meantime here are the inauguration preparations.

Penrose’s Patent and the Battle of the Tissue Tiles (Contains Mathematics)

This drama has got it all – art, law, maths, a genius professor/knight, a multi-national company, a courtroom… I was reading about Roger Penrose and I realised that today is the 30th anniversary of his success in applying for a patent on Penrose tiling. So this isn’t exactly news, but the anniversary is my excuse [...]

Sleeveface The Book

Sleeveface the book is out now! Sleeveface has a dedicated blog of its own, so I’ll try not to duplicate too much here. It also has more info about the book. At the moment we are doing a real mixed bag of press and radio interviews. Sunday Times magazine carried a feature recently, this afternoon [...]