Three Legg'd Mare, Singing Storms
After Saturday's workshop for some strange reason I thought it would be a good idea to drive even further north through the storm. This was to photograph Three Legg'd Mare (again, I know - but in my defence, they are about to record another CD so the set list is a little different every time!). The venue was perched on the edge of Snowdonia, at the Centre for Alternative Technology. The route there from Aber is usually fantastically scenic. However, on a late February evening
Uncover Your Own Legend
On Saturday February 25th I led an art'chaeology workshop at Borth with Dr. Martin Bates for Dyfi Biosphere. Part of a series of events for Visit Wales' Year of the Legends it focused upon developing aspects of Layers in the Landscape into participatory culture as a platform for tourism and heritage. We began with a short powerpoint and question/answer session in the fieldwork cabin at the local Youth Hostel.This enabled people to see the submerged forest in all its glory, al
Not Cantre'r Gwaelod
Science is often berated for its habit of using the arts as 'window dressing', often misusing and misrepresenting en route. The same, though, happens in reverse, generally with less critique; artists using science as subject matter but without checking the facts. Sometimes this is done in full knowledge of the deviation, other times it is through a lack of thorough research - but usually it is an innocent error, one false brick being placed upon a false brick by another hand,
The Myth of the Mammoth Hunt
Recently there have been a large number of media stories concerning the cloning of a mammoth. Very few of the reports I have encountered have made much sense though, instead they've generally leaned towards being rather Jurassic ridden and devoid of actual data. Growing rapidly weary of people accosting me to wax lyrical about how Harvard will soon have a pet mammoth, I therefore decided to check the excitement out in a little more detail. Only a small amount of digging later
