Light and sound both travel in waves. As the frequency of the sound waves change, so does their pitch. As the frequency of light waves change, so does their colour. The frequencies we hear in modern music are typically oriented around a frequency we refer to as "concert pitch" - typically this is 440Hz and the note is the A above middle C. 440Hz is an arbitrary number though, and different people have different reasons for preferring other values. There are people who strongly believe that 432Hz is "deeply connected with nature" and that 440Hz is bad for us. Throw into this mix the idea that...

In the Style of Me is a project intended to provide an art challenge to any and all artists, crafters, photographers, sculptors and other creatives. To participate all you have to do is submit a photo, scan or digital illustration of a piece of art you have done that is your interpretation of another famous work of art – but in your own style. For instance, you could collage the Venus Di Milo, sketch your version of a Rousseau, or sculpt “The Scream”. For those that need a little more prodding or inspiration, each week an artist will be chosen for participants to ‘Style’. The season...

Alchemy gets a bad rap these days, seen only as a primitive version of chemistry - its practitioners greedy fools thinking they could turn lead into gold. The truth is that Alchemy was an early attempt to understand how the world worked, and it blended ideas from religion and science. Some Alchemists believed that if they understood enough about the elemental forces in nature, they would be able to create the philosopher's stone, which would be able to turn base matter into gold. Other Alchemists were driven more by the quest for spiritual enlightenment, and saw their proto-chemistry experiments...

I've been developing for the web since 1994, and in that time I've seen technologies come and go. Some have been truly bad ideas from the start (like the blink tag). Others filled a genuine need (like Flash). Back in the mid-nineties, I dabbled a lot with Macromedia Director. I spent countless hours building a thing I called the ColourZoomer, which loaded an image and then let you interactively change the colours, zoom and crop it. I learned a lot about OO programming doing that. I also built an application called "The Alchemist", which was like a ColourZoomer on steroids. It let you load images...

Do you see, mesdames et messieurs, the contents of my shop? It is full of great works. The human spirit has been squeezed dry by their creation. They stand here, mute but immutable; silent evidence; the fingerprints of the human soul. You can see it in every stroke. The soul is the work's shadow. It is set in the hardened paint like the figures frozen at Pompeii, or the silhouettes of those vaporised at Hiroshima. What price shall I put on them? I'm interested in how a "realistic" image captured by a camera can evolve into something more abstract. Digital photography is my chosen medium because...