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Check out this fantastic video of TED talk by Aaron Koblin who creates visual images and video using data feeds and crowd-sourcing.

I love art and history TV documentaries and books, and thought I would start summarising this information not only for my future reference but also for those of you that either cannot get hold of the documentary (if you are not in the UK for example) or can't be bothered with sitting through the hours of footage. First up is a BBC do...

I found this gem of a clip on YouTube about how the Greek sculptors were the first to use their eyes and create realistic sculptures of the human body, but a generation later, abandoned this altogether to produce exaggerated sculptures of the human body. As Professor Ramachandran explains, within us lies the primal instinct to exagge...

I think an artist's value to the rest of the world, is that he uses his eyes, making other people somewhat interested in what he has done, he helps them to use their eyes - Henry Moore, in an interviewed with the BBC

I am a big fan of Abelardo Morell and some of his ideas were the inspiration for my Reflactions project. One thing that I saw back in 2009 on the BBC's excellent Genius of Photography series was how Abelardo used a room as a giant Camera Obscura. He does this by covering up all the windows with black paper/bin sacks and t...

I have been sorting through my various projects and I thought the first one I would put online was a project I did last year. This was the first project I have done with a specified theme from the outset that brings together a collection of images.

It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That’s why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, Wired magazine Following on from my post about when is it the right time to show your work, I th...

Sculpture is a fantastic art form which unfortunately isn't as popular as it should be. If you want to give it a go, how do you go about learning it? The answer isn't as obvious as you might think. I was browsing the sculpture topic on Quora the other day and there was a question on there, sitting unanswered, which I felt needed a reply. The...