• The Ersatz Constellations

    Constellations are a kind of necessary pareidolia, concentrating infinity into a human-scale narrative. The Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese and Arabs all sought to make sense of the world by projecting their cultures onto the heavens and their narratives still permeate our culture. Our recently born near-constellation of robots – Hubble, Spitzer, Fermi and Kepler – have furnished us with a hi-def and precise…


  • A City Of Inventors

    Late last Summer, Marketing Leeds’ then CEO Deborah Green invited me to contribute a piece on Leeds’ technology ecosphere for the 2012 edition of Live It, Love It: A Style Guide To Leeds. The guide is the official publication for marketing the city and distributed freely to visitors and residents. Leeds isn’t understood to be…


  • Lovebytes 2012 | 22-24 March | directions

    A few hours ago I received a cryptic email from Lovebytes containing a single evocative image… Following the link took me to a windswept 360° panorama high in the hills above what appears to be Sheffield. The implied adventure and mystery of this invitation is sublime. No noisy declarations of sponsors or speakers just a…


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