LUMEN_EX 2010

Banker’s Bonuses project just been accepted for LUMEN_EX 2010 competition (Cáceres, Spain)

The Gite Set

I made this drawing “The Gite Set” - over the last couple of days:
It explores the recent phenomenon of English people emigrating to France and running gites. It studies the subject from a number of angles - such as reasons why people want to do this, how dreams can be undone, socio-economic factors driving this, and [...]

girl with crown

Nice composition - why do I like it? the ornamental stuff at the bottom seems to make it work. Not sure about the use of a photo, I wouldn’t do that personally though why not. The copyright stuff is probably an attempt to seem anti corporate, where it’s actually just a decorative thing. I also [...]

London crime statistics sculpture

Physical 3D landscape terrain models generated by datasets relating to the frequency & position of urban crimes. the precise statistics are provided by the police. each individual incident adds to the height of the model, forming a mountainous terrain. the resulting “Mountain Fear” objects do not describe an ideal other-worldly space separated from lived reality, [...]

Baby Tesco bags

Here’s a small experimental project that I was working on a few weeks ago. I ended up getting side-tracked and forgot about it, but I think it’s got possibilities as an interesting way to tell stories. It’s a collage generator, which builds a picture as an html page. It takes images from a folder and [...]

A walk in the park with Joseph Paxton

I’ve just completed a quick interactive online experiment: http://davemiller.org/experiments/paxton. This is an interactive conversation, and visual story combined. It deals with a controversial, topical and emotive local issue, concerning the development of Crystal Palace park after long years of neglect. Lots of plans are being put forward, and local people consulted extensively. It occurred to me [...]