Todays inspiration...

Paper cut out, showing the link between the flower and the space around it

Jamie's watch as the light bounces off it. This reminds me of a small seed.

Large Hadron Collider

...scientists are interested in the behaviour of our universe in the first instants after it was born, 13.7 billion years ago.
This is interesting because we have found that our complex and baffling world today is made up of just a few simple building blocks. In fact you only need three things to make up you, me, the earth and every star in the sky.

These building blocks are hidden from view today, locked up inside matter, but in the very early universe they roamed free. Two of these little building blocks are called quarks, and the other is the electron.

The collider is the giant 27km circular machine buried in a tunnel under the Swiss city of Geneva and has been out of the headlines recently. That's because it is quietly working away recreating the conditions that were present in our universe less than a billionth of a second after it began.

Tomorrow, at an enormous international conference in Paris, the first results from the LHC will be presented to the scientific community...

More info: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3062238/Sun-Professor-Brian-Cox-on-the-highest-energy-explosion-ever-seen.html

Elegant Universe

Natural forms : The Deep

A Tribute to Ernst Haeckel

Haeckel was a biologist and an artist, and he merged both disciplines into a study of natural forms, shapes, symmetries and patterns from every aspect of the natural world.



"Today, we have nearly eliminated natural forms from our lives. We live in shoebox shaped houses and drive cars shaped like shoeboxes with rounded edges. We pave the landscape with geometric grids of asphalt and design characters for animation out of triangles, rectangles and circles. We have isolated ourselves from natural shapes; and in so doing, we have isolated ourselves from ourselves." (Animation archive 2010)

The Deep: Photos

The Deep

Whilst visiting The Deep exhibition at The Natural History Museum I drew a microscopic image of the thousands of fish bones at the bottom of the Sea. The images were beautiful and in black and white.